For a school project, high school senior Pip chooses to reexamine a closed case involving the murder-suicide of one of the most popular girls in school and her childhood friend. When Pip begins to uncover some well-buried secrets, her own…
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- Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
- Five teens enter detention and by the end of the day, only four remain. Bronwyn, Addy, Nate, and Cooper were all on Simon's list of targets for his popular gossip app. Their secrets safe with Simon gone, the rest of the detention crew are…
- When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened. The…
- Helping her mother pull off one last heist at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party, Kat tries to avoid her former stepbrother Liam, but when a Sutherland is murdered, Kat and Liam become the new targets and can’t trust anyone…
- When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance. The first book…
- J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students at the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.
- The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.
- When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or…
- Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying…
- A Chinatown movie star's suspicious death leads her former classmates and neighbors to investigate for evidence of foul play.
- A super fan gets the chance to solve the cold case that inspired her interest in true crime, but nothing goes to plan from the moment she arrives in Connecticut to start sleuthing. The first book in the Amateurs series.
- When a scandalous murder shocks London high society, seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seizes the opportunity to prove herself, despite the interference of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the stern young heir to the prestigious firm…
- Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit.…
- Todd Mayer haunts his town after his body was found in the park, recalling the events which led to his death as the living around him look for answers. Georgia, Todd's former classmate, feels strangely connected to him even though they…
- After witnessing her best friend's abduction ten years ago, Dee becomes a popular true crime podcaster under a pseudonym and works with online sleuths to solve missing persons cases. When a similar disappearance in her town occurs, Dee…
- A high school theater group is forced to spend the night in a run-down hotel when they drive into a blizzard en route to a competition. Not long after arriving, another stranded group of teens shows up and they pass the time by playing a…
- In this Clue board game-inspired series starter, a group of students is trapped at their elite boarding school when a severe winter storm hits, leaving them at the mercy of the elements and each other. When the headmaster of Blackbrook…
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