Black Mirror
by Nancy Werlin

Frances is in shock and mourning. Her brother, Daniel, has been found dead, supposedly of a drug overdose he inflicted on himself. Her brother dying from a lethal drug injection is incomprehensible to Frances. While she and her brother were not very close anymore, they had been like best friends a couple of years ago. That was back before they each received scholarships to attend the Pettengill School and Daniel had joined Unity Service, a charitable group on campus. After that, Daniel just didn't seem to have any more time left to spend with his sister. But surely if he had been unhappy enough to take his own life, he would have talked to someone about his problems. And if it wasn't her, then it must have been his girlfriend, Saskia, also part of Unity Service. So then there is really only one way for Frances to find out what really happened to her brother and try to understand why he would want to take his own life. Frances has to join Unity Service and figure out why the organization has always seemed so sinister to her.

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
by Joan Lowery Nixon

Christina is just your basic average teenager. Her family is wealthy though, and she attends the best private girls' school. Her biggest worry is that her extremely conservative family will not allow her to travel to France with her junior class over the summer to study the art and architecture. Then some strange things start happening to Christina-the guy at the burger joint she always goes to on Friday afternoons with her best friend just sits down at her table with his wife and starts a bizarre conversation with her. Her best friend is late getting to the burger joint and misses the weird incident with the burger guy and his wife, and in the course of conversation, Christina forgets to mention it to her friend. Later that evening as Christina is driving over to her friend's house, she notices a car following her, but then it doesn't turn off onto her friend's street, so she doesn't think anymore about it. Then after returning home that night as she is walking to the door from her car parked in the driveway, someone accosts her. She feels hands wrap around her mouth and a needle pricks her arm. Then everything goes black . . . Kidnapped. Christina realizes that is exactly what has happened when she wakes up. But then things go from bad to worse.

Close To A Killer
by Marsha Qualey
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

The Dream Spinner
by Joanne Hoppe

To escape the pressures of her changed life with a new stepmother and stepbrother, fifteen-year-old Mary experiments with techniques used to control dreams and becomes enmeshed in a turn-of-the-century world that becomes more real than reality.

Hawk Moon
by Rob MacGregor

Will Lansa spent the summer with his father on the Hopi reservation in Arizona, and now that he's back in Aspen, Colorado, Will feels like an outsider. He breaks up with his girlfriend, Myra, and then becomes the last person who saw her alive. When a knife is discovered with blood on its blade and traces of a drug on its handle, Will is the main suspect in Myra's murder.

Killing Mr. Griffin
by Lois Duncan
Kidnapping Mr. Griffin, the teacher that no one liked, was the plan. But not one of the students realized that Mr. Griffin's bottle of heart medicine had slipped out of his pocket during the walk.

Locked Inside
by Nancy Werlin
Marnie is lonely, miserable, and bored. She's also in danger of flunking out of yet another school. So when her English teacher invites her to lunch, Marnie figures she'd better make an effort to fit in and accepts. Accepting that invitation just may have cost Marnie her life-for it is this crazy teacher who is holding her hostage.

Nobody's There
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Abbie has gotten into trouble and the judge gives her a chance to clear her record. She is assigned to spend time with Mrs. Merkel. Mrs. Merkel is not just any senior citizen though-she fancies herself a pseudosleuth and has Abbie as her sidekick. And Mrs. Merkel is sure she is onto something big.

Never Trust a Dead Man
by Vivian Vande
Velde Selwyn is accused of Farold's murder and is sealed into a living tomb. A deal with a cranky witch gives Farold new life as a bat (or bird or duck) in exchange for helping Selwyn clear his name.

The Rag and Bone Shop
by Robert Cormier

They needed a confession.
A seven-year-old girl was found dead-her body lying lifeless in the woods. She had been murdered-brutally beaten over the head with a blunt object.
The town of Monument is stunned. But the citizens are exerting great pressure on the local police to find the perpetrator-the sooner, the better. So the police chief brings in Trent, an interrogator with the special skill of getting confessions out of suspects.

The police need a confession because there is no physical evidence. No witnesses. No weapons. No fingerprints. If they get a confession, they can lock-up their suspect.
Their suspect is twelve-year-old Jason Dorrant. He was apparently the last person to see the victim alive. Jason feels sad when he thinks about what happened to Alicia, but he doesn't think he knows anything. He is willing to tell the police what he does know.

Trying to make everything appear aboveboard, the police invite Jason along with several other local kids in for questioning. But what they don't tell Jason's parents is that he is their prime suspect, and once they have Jason at the police station, Trent is going to get a confession out of Jason.

So now Jason and Trent are alone in a small, hot room, trying to work out the truth of what has happened. Trent believes that the questioning will bring out both the truth and a confession. But what would happen if the truth got in the way of getting a confession? You see, the most important thing to Trent and the police is the confession-not the truth.

A Shadow in the North
by Philip Pullman
Fraud, fire, and bloody murder pursue Sally Lockhart in the sequel to "The Ruby in the Smoke."

Compass in the Blood
by William Coles
Dee Armstrong, a college freshman interested in journalism, gets caught up in trying to find out the truth behind a scandalous local story and embarks on an all-consuming investigation.

Don't Scream
by Joan Lowery Nixon
A dangerous seventeen-year-old psychopath, under the Federal Witness Protection Program, is given a new identity and sent to live in a small U.S. town. What happens to Jessica, his unsuspecting classmate?

Ghost Train
by Jess Mowry

Remi, who has just moved to California from Haiti, and his neighbor Niya travel back in time to solve the mystery of the night train.

Hush
by Jacqueline Woodson
Evie Thomas is not who she used to be. Her family has had to leave Colorado and change their identities. But when someone takes your past away, who do you become?

Killer's Cousin
by Nancy Werlin
After being acquitted of murdering his girlfriend, David moves in with his uncle's family in order to rebuild his life. But how can he do that when his creepy and hostile cousin is determined not to let him forget that he is a killer.

Murdered, My Sweet
by Joan Lowery Nixon
When Jenny's famous mystery writer mother dies to actually solve a crime, Jenny must use her wits to save her mother's reputation and their lives.

Playing For Keeps
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Rosie can't believe her good luck. At the last minute, her grandmother needs a roommate for a Caribbean cruise. After a day at sea though, someone is murdered, and Rosie believes that she has some vital information about the murderer. But who will believe her, except the one who committed the crime.