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Like a good mystery? A thriller that will keep you up late? Try these books - they are bound to keep you turning the pages. For mature readers.
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Fiction

Butterfly Clues - Kate Ellison
- Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, obsessing about her brother's death.
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Chasing the dead : a novel - Joe Schreiber
- In the hope of saving her daughter from a kidnapper whose origin seems darker than anything she could ever have imagined, Sue will discover just how much trauma and fright the human body is capable of absorbing.
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Chopsticks - Jessica Anthony
- In a mystery-love story told in photographs and drawings, Glory, a brilliant piano prodigy, is drawn to Frank, an artistic new boy, and the farther she falls, the deeper she spirals into madness until the only song she is able to play is "Chopsticks."
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Dead is the New Black - Marlene Perez
- Welcome to Nightshade, California, a small town full of secrets. Its home to the pyschic Giordano sisters, who have a way of getting mixed up in mysteries. With their psychic powers and some sisterly support, they can crack any case!
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Dead until dark - Charlaine Harris
- A cocktail waitress meets a sexy vampire who just might be able to help her solve the mystery of her co-worker's death.
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Dooley Takes the Fall - Norah McClintock
- Trouble is no stranger to loner Ryan Dooley; at 17 he already has a police record. Now it appears he's the only witness to the suspicious death of another teenager, and trouble is back-big time. Dooley finds himself the chief suspect in not one, but two deaths, and things become even more complicated when he meets and falls in love with the sister of one of the victims.
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Green Man - Michael Bedard
- A blend of mystery, fantasy, romance, horror, and poetry! Evil magicians, killers on the loose, bookstores, and poets combine for a fast-action read.
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Heart-shaped box - Joe Hill
- Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet.
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Kiss Me, Kill Me - Laura Henderson
- Dan McAndrew took his last breath as Scarlett held him in her arms. No one knows how or why Dan died, and everyone at St. Tabby's believes Scarlett had something to do with it. But now that she's safely hidden away at Wakefield Hall, Scarlett would rather forget that it ever happened. Only she can't. Especially when she receives an anonymous note that will set her on the path to clearing her name and finding out what really happened to the first and last boy she kissed.
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Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy
- On a spring day six years ago, three children went on a walk toward Berwick Waters. Later that day only two of them came back. Everyone is wondering where the now seventeen-year-old murderer, Jennifer Jones, is living. Only a handful of people in the country know. Alice Tully is one of them.
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Lying with strangers - James Grippando
- Peyton Shields has been forced off the road by an unknown driver. No one believes her claims that the "accident" was deliberate - not even her husband. Yet the terror has only begun, for a series of strange, increasingly dangerous events begin to plague Peyton, moving her closer to a faceless and very deadly enemy who seems to know her every move.
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Nefertiti : the book of the dead - Nick Drake
- When Queen Nefertiti suddenly vanishes. Rai Rahotep, the youngest chief detective in the Thebes division, is secretly assigned by Akhenaten himself to investigate. He has ten days to find the Queen and return her in time for the celebrations. Success will bring glory - but if Rai fails, he and his family will die.
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Paper Towns - John Green
- One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
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Reality Check - Peter Abrahams
- Things in Cody's world seem to be going pretty well. And then his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career. But bad things come in threes—or in Cody's case, sixes and twelves—and the worst is yet to come. While limping through town one day, Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex, has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to Cody the morning of her disappearance.
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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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Still life - Louise Penny
- Meet Inspector Armand Gamache, who commands his forces with integrity and quiet courage. Locals are convinced a murder is no more than a tragic hunting accident, but Gamache uncovers something more sinister.
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The Boxer and the Spy - Robert B. Parker
- When a shy high school student's body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England beach town-an apparent suicide-fifteen-year-old Terry Novak doesn't know what to think. Something just doesn't add up, so he decides to do some investigating of his own with the help of his best friend, Abby. It doesn't take long before they learn that asking questions puts them in grave danger, and surviving is going to be a fight.
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The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery - Alane Ferguson
- Seventeen-year-old Cameryn has wanted to be a forensic pathologist for as long as she can remember, and when a killer strikes in her hometown of Silverton, Colo., she takes advantage of her father's position as coroner to assist in the autopsy. But she had not expected that she would know the murder victim. Try the other books in this series, too: The Angel of Death and The Circle of Blood.
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The falconer's knot - Mary Hoffman
- Sixteen-year-old Silvano da Montacuto has wealth, good looks, a new hawk--and an infatuation with a merchant's wife. When a man is murdered in his town, Silvano's bloody dagger is found, and he is accused of the crime.
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The Night She Disappeared - April Henry
- Told from various viewpoints, Gabie and Drew set out to prove that their missing co-worker Kayla is not dead, and to find her before she is, while the police search for her body and the man who abducted her.
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The sweetness at the bottom of the pie - Alan Bradley
- An 11-year-old solving a dastardly murder in the English countryside in 1950 wouldn't seem to be everyone's cup of tea. But Flavia Sabina de Luce is no ordinary child: she's already an accomplished chemist, smart enough to escape being imprisoned by her older sisters and to exact revenge, forthright and fearless to the point of being foolhardy, and relentless in defending those she loves. When she spies on her father arguing heatedly with a strange man late at night and the next morning finds that man buried in the cucumber patch, she sets out, riding her bicycle named Gladys, to make sense of it all.
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Uninvited - Justine Musk
- Kelly Ruland's world fell apart when her brother Jasper walked away the sole survivor of a car accident...and kept walking right out of town. Now, former star student and athlete Kelly struggles to care about anything anymore, sleepwalking through school and experimenting with dangerous behavior as she tries to fill the void inside her. Then one night, Jaspers returns...but he's not alone. Someone has followed him home. Someone who hides in the space behind the truth, who hovers in the shadows between the known and the unknown.
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Non-fiction

An unspeakable crime - Elaine Marie Alphin
- n 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old employee at an Atlanta pencil factory was found murdered. Police suspected Leo Frank, who was a northerner and a Jew. His trial captured national attention. A mob stormed the prison where Frank was being held and lynched him. Leo Frank thus became the only known Jew lynched in American history.
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Forensics - Richard Platt
- Explore the crime lab and discover how detectives use science to solve crimes. From the scene of the crime to a criminal's conviction, discover how the marks of blood, footprints, and fingerprints can lead the police to criminals. Learn how famous crimes were solved and, like a true detective, find out whether it was arson, poison, or murder.
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The DNA gave it away : teens solve crime - Yvonne Morrison
- Learn about crime scenes, how clues are collected, fingerprint analysis, DNA, careers in forensic science, and more.
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