Monday, May 17, 2010

New Mysteries for Teens (& Teens at Heart)



Case Closed
Gosho Aoyama

Nothing can keep high-school mystery fan Shin'ichi Kudo from solving a case -- that is, until he's transformered into a puny grade schooler! Kudo finds a home with an eccentric inventor who promises to cure him -- and, in the meantime, joins his friend Ran to help her incompetent private detective father on all his toughest murder mysteries.




Fallen
Lauren Kate

Seventeen-year-old Luce -- accused of murdering her boyfriend -- is sent to a Georgia reform school ... where she meets two strange boys and learns the truth about her own life.




A Spy in the House
Y.S. Lee

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls -- where she will be trained to be an investigator and a spy ...




The Big Dip
Melanie Jackson

Joe Lumby, track star extraordinaire, was only breaking his curfew to take a quick ride on a roller coaster. But when a man is shot right in front of him -- and the man's dying words involve Joe in the mystery of the Margaret rose -- there can be no turning back from the unexpected twist his life has taken.




Jonas
Eden Maguire

Something strange is happening at Darina's high school. Four students have died in the past year, and rumors of ghosts and strange happenings are swirling through the town. Then the ghost of her boyfriend appears to Darina ... and tells her that only she can right the wrong linked to the death of their friend Jonas ...




A Thousand Cuts
Simon Lelic

Recommended for older teens, A Thousand Cuts tells the story of Detective Inspector Lucia May, hired to investigate a murder at the local high school -- only to discover that she has more in common with the killer than she ever could have imagined.




Ghost in the Machine
Patrick Carman

Stuck in the house after an eerie accident, Ryan continues to investigate the weird occurances in Skeleton Creek, keeping his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by his fellow detective Sarah.

(You can follow the clues along with Ryan at SarahFincher.com!

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