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  • Blink & Caution
    Blink & Caution
    Tim Wynne-Jones.
    Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
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  • Cryer's Cross
    Cryer's Cross
    Lisa McMann.
    Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
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  • Choker
    Choker
    Elizabeth Woods.
    Teenaged Cara, solitary and bullied in high school, is delighted to reconnect with her childhood best friend Zoe whose support and friendship help Cara gain self-confidence, even as her classmates start dying.
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  • You killed Wesley Payne
    You killed Wesley Payne
    by Sean Beaudoin.
    When hard-boiled, seventeen-year-old private investigator Dalton Rev transfers to Salt River High to solve the case of a dead student, he has his hands full trying to outwit the police, negotiate the school's social hierarchy, and get paid.
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  • The girl is murder
    The girl is murder
    Kathryn Miller Haines.
    In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
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  • Clarity
    Clarity
    Kim Harrington.
    Sixteen-year-old Clare Fern, a member of a family of psychics, helps the mayor and a skeptical detective solve a murder in a Cape Cod town during the height of tourist season--with her brother a prime suspect.
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  • The lying game
    The lying game
    by Sara Shepard.
    Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
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  • The morgue and me
    The morgue and me
    John C. Ford.
    Eighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger.
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  • The dark days of Hamburger Halpin
    The dark days of Hamburger Halpin
    Josh Berk.
    When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.
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  • All unquiet things
    All unquiet things
    Anna Jarzab.
    After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.
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  • Shift
    Shift
    Jennifer Bradbury.
    When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
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  • Wherever Nina lies
    Wherever Nina lies
    Lynn Weingarten.
    Two years after the disappearance of her older sister, sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest to find her.
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  • Pretty little liars
    Pretty little liars
    Sara Shepard.
    When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.
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  • The last thing I remember
    The last thing I remember
    by Andrew Klavan.
    High school student Charlie West awakens bloody and bruised in a concrete bunker, only to discover that he has lost a year of his life and remembers nothing about escaping from prison after being convicted of murdering his former best friend, or why he is being pursued by both the law and a group of terrorists trying to bring down the government of the United States.
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  • Something rotten : a Horatio Wilkes mystery
    Something rotten : a Horatio Wilkes mystery
    Alan Gratz.
    In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee. Something is rotten in Denmark, Tennessee, and it is not just the polluted Copenhagen River.
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  • Gentlemen
    Gentlemen
    Michael Northrop.
    When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" before learning the truth.
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  • Acceleration
    Acceleration
    Graham McNamee.
    Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
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  • The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery
    The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery
    Alane Ferguson.
    On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.
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  • Death by denim
    Death by denim
    Linda Gerber.
    Sixteen-year-old Aphra and her mother, a CIA agent, are hiding in France under new identities, but they must go on the run again when their location is discovered by a dangerous criminal.
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