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• One Killer Problem

  Winans, Justine Pucella,

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  When she finds her favorite teacher lying in a pool of blood, Gigi calls on her high school's "mystery club" to help her solve the murder, resulting in a cat-and-mouse game with the killer, continual flare-ups of her IBS and her archnemesis turning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girls Like Her

  Sumrow, Melanie,

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  Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles and court transcripts, this unflinching story follows 15-year-old homeless teen Ruby, who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman and must make desperate choices to prove her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girls Who Burn

  Pagano, MK,

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  Eighteen-year-old Addie Blackwood is forced to team up with her childhood rival to unmask her sister's killer.

• Such Charming Liars

  McManus, Karen M.,

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  Sixteen-year-old Kat's con-artist mom takes on one last heist before going straight for good, but the job takes a deadly turn.

• The Grandest Game

  Barnes, Jennifer Lynn,

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  Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rosewood Hunt

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  Reed, Mackenzie,

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  When her grandmother, the chair of their family's luxury coat business, dies suddenly and her fortune goes missing, Lily Rosewood and three other seemingly random teens are sent on a treasure hunt around Rosetown that becomes more dangerous than she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By Any Other Name

  Cotter, Erin,

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  In London, 1593, sixteen-year-old Will Hughes makes his living on Shakespeare's stage, but after the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe is murdered, he teams up with young Lord James Bloomsbury, and together the two hunt the elusive assassin as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Find a Missing Girl

  Wlosok, Victoria,

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  When her ex-girlfriend goes missing exactly one year after her sister vanished, small-town Louisiana true-crime podcaster Iris Blackthorn and her amateur sleuthing agency are determined to solve these disappearances while avoiding a suspicious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Running Past Dark

  Nolan, Han,

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  With half the town against her, senior Scottie O'Doul searches for the truth behind the deadly car crash that killed her twin sister and the high school football coach, running mile after mile to push through her grief and trying to fit the pieces…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• After You Vanished

  Neeves, E. A. (Emily Angela), 1987-

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  Teddy used to love lifeguarding Bottomrock Lake, until her twin went for a midnight swim and never came back. Being a talented swimmer, Izzy couldn’t have drowned. If she did drown, where is her body, why is her passport missing? Then Toby, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Not Alone

  Stork, Francisco X.,

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  A suspect in a terrible crime, Alberto, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico with developing schizophrenia, learns he's not alone when Grace, a girl with whom he forms an immediate--and electric--connection sets out to prove his innocence.

• At the Speed of Lies

  Otis, Cindy L.,

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  High school junior Quinn Calvet gets caught up in the disappearance of kids in a nearby town, soon beginning to suspect more to the story than anyone understands, and it is up to her to figure out what's going on.

• Invisible Son

  Johnson, Kim, 1979-

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  After spending two months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend.

• Stateless

  Wein, Elizabeth,

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  Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.

• My Flawless Life

  Woon, Yvonne,

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  At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner. Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Queen

  Emill, Jumata,

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  When her best friend, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is murdered, Duchess Simmons becomes convinced that beautiful, wealthy and white Tinsley McArthur is responsible, and though Duchess is determined to prove Tinsley's guilt,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• After Dark With Roxie Clark

  Davis, Brooke Lauren,

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  A year after her sister Skyla's boyfriend was found murdered, Roxie, from the cursed Clark family, helps Skyla find closure by searching for the killer and soon discovers that some scary stories might be better left untold.

• The Killing Code

  Marney, Ellie,

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  Kit Sutherland moves to Washington, DC, to work as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, but when she stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she joins forces with other female codebreakers to find the person killing government girls.

• The Gravity of Missing Things

  Urgo, Marisa,

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  Flight 133 disappeared over the ocean. No wreckage. No distress signal. Just gone. Suddenly, everyone on the news and social media is talking about whether the pilot intentionally crashed it—everyone but me. Because I know her. The pilot was my mom,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gideon Green in Black and White

  Henry, Katie,

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  Gideon's short-lived run as a locally-famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and everyone else--including his best friend, Lily--moved on while Gideon kept holding on to his trench coat, fedora, and his treasured film noir…Read moreRead more of this annotation