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By Jess Lourey. 2018
Mira James fled her small town for college. Now she reluctantly moves to tiny Battle Lake, Minnesota, where she housesits,…
works at the library and the newspaper, and solves murders. Includes May Day, June Bug, Knee High by the Fourth of July, and August Moon. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 2018By Allan Wolf. 2017
Four friends who were last seen with fellow student Christopher Goodman question what happened on the summer night leading up…
to the discovery of his body a few miles outside town. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2017By Garry Disher. 2014
Relegated to a backwater town after a whistle-blowing incident earns him powerful enemies, Australian police detective Paul 'Hirsch' Hirschhausen confronts…
more local crime than anticipated, including the murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2014By Crystal V. Rhodes, L. Barnett Evans, Lillie Barnett Evans. 2011
When amateur sleuths Hattie Collier, Bea Bell and Connie Palmer, win a trip to Las Vegas, they decide that crime…
solving can take a holiday. It's fun in the sun for the adventurous widows, and Hattie's cantankerous mother-law, Miss Fanny that is until the devils playground proves too much for Hattie. She is sure that her friends are headed straight to hell and with her mother-in-law hitting the Veg casinos like a pro, what is a God-fearing grandmother to do? In the process of saving her friends and Sin City from the gates of hell, she raids a strip joint, causes a street riot, is tossed in jail and becomes the infamous Bible Bomber. UnratedBy Paul L Gaus, P. L. Gaus. 1999
Amish bishop Eli Miller breaks the traditional isolation of his people to ask Professor Michael Brandon, who is not Amish,…
to find his grandson, Jeremiah, who has disappeared with his father, Jonah, although Brandon is not to notify the police or use force to recover the boy, but then Jonah is found murdered along the roadsideBy Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerBy Anne Perry. 2005
Fifteen short mysteries, spanning past and present, rooted in the Bible. Simon Brett examines an Old Testament murder in "Cain…
Was Innocent." Also includes Bill Crider's modern crucifixion tale "The Man on the Cross" and works by Carole Nelson Douglas, Peter Robinson, the editor, and others. Some strong language. 2005By Daisy Pettles. 2018
When Dode Schneider, rattle-brained Indiana farmer, insists an abandoned mansion is haunted by ghosts with big butts who dance in…
the apple orchard, Pawpaw County Sheriff Boots Gibson happily off-loads the crazy complaint to Ruby Jane Waskom and Veenie Goens, senior sleuths in training with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong languageRuby, the rabbi's widow, knows she's in trouble when her longtime nemesis, Essie Sue, talks her into housing Essie Sue's…
twin cousins, Lester and Larry. The boys are in town for pre-Bar Mitzvah schooling from Rabbi Kevin Kapstein. Essie Sue's plans to orchestrate the grandest Bar Mitzvah feast in Temple Rita's history. The star attraction is sure to be Herman Guenther, master lox cutter. But when he meets an untimely death, Ruby investigates, tracing the victim's roots back to Nazi-era Denmark. Her investigation takes her from Eternal, Texas to Alaska to New YorkBy Jess Lourey. 2018
PI-in-training Mira James has more murders to solve, while juggling her jobs at the library and the newspaper in Battle…
Lake, Minnesota. Includes December Dread, January Thaw, and February Fever, which has Mira looking for a killer on a snowed-in Valentine train. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018By Jess Lourey. 2018
Three mysteries feature amateur sleuth Mira James, who has seen a gravedigger's share of dead bodies since moving to small-town…
Battle Lake, Minnesota, and taking part-time jobs at the library and the newspaper. Includes September Mourn, October Fest, and November Hunt. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018By Bernie Lambek. 2018
Collection of fifty of the author's humorous and satirical columns first appearing in the "Nation" magazine between 1978 and 1981.…
Pokes fun at diverse subjects ranging from First Family antics to contemporary mores and considers important questions of the day, such as why employees of health food stores always look so unhealthy. Adult. UnratedBy Elaine Marie Alphin. 2003
Best friends Ian and Teddy meet regularly in an abandoned motel in the redwood forest, California, to take photographs. One…
day Teddy doesn't show up and Ian suspects his oppressive father has something to do with his friend's mysterious disappearance. Ian is questioned by the sheriff but he can't remember everything that happened that day. For grades 6-9By Sid Fleischman, Jos. A. Smith. 1992
1894. Twelve-year-old Jake Bannock assumes that he is an orphan after he sees his actor-father's coffin lowered into the ground…
at Blow- fly, Nevada. If one discounts the rumor that Sam Bannock had con- cealed a cache of diamonds, Jake's only inheritance is his father's part-wolf mongrel dog. His father called the dog Amigo; Jake calls him Jim Ugly. Together they set out to learn the truth about Sam's supposed demise--and the diamonds. For grades 4-7. 1992By Leslie Connor. 2018
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies,…
create an underground haven for themselves. But when Calvin goes missing, Mason finds himself in trouble. For grades 5-8. 2018By Blue Balliett. 2013
Chicago. One January day, eleven-year-old Early's dad disappears without a trace from their neighborhood. Soon after Early, her mom, and…
her brother must flee their apartment and seek safety in a shelter, and it is up to Early to find her father. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2013By P. J Petersen. 2002
Kevin is assigned community service--for car theft--at an animal rescue center. During a flood, he accompanies volunteers Tracy and her…
brother, Luke, on a mission to feed a trapped dog. The group runs into trouble when they encounter armed burglars looting a house. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2002By R. L Stine. 2001
Nothing has been going right for Russell at summer camp, and he's tired of being called a wimp. But as…
a senior camper, he has to ride a canoe over Forbidden Falls. Legend says it's haunted by others who disappeared there. Could that be true? For grades 5-8. 2001By R. L Stine. 2001
April Powers is one of twelve top students invited to an isolated Caribbean island for two weeks. Besides attending talks…
by visiting celebrities, they will participate in a Life Games competition for a large cash prize. But the group also faces an unanticipated evil challenge. For grades 5-8. 2001By R. L Stine. 2001
Nervous new student Sam Waterbury doesn't like the old prison-looking Wilton Middle School. He feels even worse in the empty…
hallway when he encounters a hissing, three-foot-high, green rat creature with a HUMAN face! For grades 5-8. 2001