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Mysteries

Carter, Ally. I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you. As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission. YA CARTER

Cross, Gillian. Phoning a dead man. When her brother John, a demolition expert, is killed in an explosion in Siberia, Hayley agrees to accompany his wheelchair-bound fiancée, Annie, to the scene of the accident, but both suspect that their only escorts have possible Mafia connections. YA M CROSS

Duncan, Lois. Killing Mr. Griffin. A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder? YA M DUNCAN

Feinstein, John. Last shot : a Final Four mystery. After winning a basketball journalism contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol discover blackmailing to throw the Final Four game. YA M FEINSTEIN

Ferguson, Alane. The angel of death : a forensic mystery. Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death. YA M FERGUSON

Galloway, Gregory. As simple as snow. After his girlfriend's dress is found near an ice hole in the river, a small-town teen attempts to piece together the clues. YA GALLOWAY

Hoobler, Dorothy. The demon in the teahouse. In 18th-century Japan, Seikei, samurai-in-training, helps investigate a series of murders and arson, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha. Second in a series. JM HOOBLER

McNamee, Graham. Acceleration. 17 year-old Duncan finds a diary in the subway and decides to track down the writer, who documents his cruelty escalating from animals to people. YA M MCNAMEE

Moloney, James. Black taxi. When Rosie becomes the guardian of her grandfather's black Mercedes and his cell phone while he is in jail, she also gets threatening phone calls involving jewelry theft. YA M MOLONEY

Plum-Ucci, Carol. The body of Christopher Creed. Christopher Creed, a bullied teen, sends a puzzling email from the school library computer and then disappears. Torey Adams goes on an intensive quest to find out what happened. YA M PLUM-UCCI

Portman, Frank. King Dork. Tom's father left behind a copy of Catcher in the Rye filled with coded messages that may reveal the reason he died. YA M PORTMAN

Pullman, Phillip. The ruby in the smoke. In Victorian London, Sally Lockhart finds that she holds the key to both her father's murder and a stolen ruby, but will she survive the discovery? M PULLMAN

Sorrells, Walter. Club Dread. When sixteen-year-old Chastity witnesses the murder of a pop star, her hopes of settling down with her mother in San Francisco seem to disappear. YA M SORRELLS

Werlin, Nancy. The killer's cousin. David is accused of murdering his girlfriend. He moves to his uncle's house to escape the publicity at home, but is caught up in the dark secrets surrounding his cousin's suicide. YA M WERLIN

Wynne-Jones, Tim. The boy in the burning house. When Ruth Rose claims her stepfather murdered Jim's dad, 14-year-old Jim starts examining his dad's past hoping to solve his sudden disappearance two years ago. M WYNNE-JONES

Last updated November 22nd, 2011