Broach, Elise Desert Crossing
A summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for fourteen-year-old Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl.
Brooks, Kevin The Road of the Dead
Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.
Butcher, A.J. Spy High, Mission One (Spy High Series)
As students at a special high school that trains them to be secret agents, six teenagers struggle to complete the training exercises as a team before being sent out into the field to sink or swim.
Carter, Ally I’d Tell You I Love You, but Then I’d Have to Kill You
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
Cooney has authored a number of books full of mystery including The Face on the Milk Carton.
DeLint, Charles Blue Girl
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.
Duncan has numerous mystery novels waiting to be devoured by teen detectives.
Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Feinstein, John Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
Ferguson, Alane The Christopher Killer (Forensic Mystery Series)
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.
Giles, Gail Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters
Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.
Hall, Lynn Ride a Dark Horse
Gusty tries to prove her suspicions about dishonest breeding practices at the horse farm where she works.
Higson, Charlie Silverfin (Young Bond Series)
This prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young James when he's just started boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure.
Hoobler, Dorothy The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
Hoobler, Dorothy The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass
In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.
Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Series)
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Madison, Bennett Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls (Lulu Dark Series)
When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark investigates.
McNamee, Graham Acceleration
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.
Mowlls, Joshua Operation Red Jericho (Guild Specialists Series)
The posthumous papers of Rebecca MacKenzie document her adventures, along with her brother Doug, in 1920s China as the teenaged siblings are sent to live aboard their uncle's ship where they become involved in the dangerous activities of a mysterious secret society called the Honourable Guild of Specialists.
Many of Nixon's books fall under the genre of mystery. Pick one up and solve the case!
Pascal, Francine Kill Game (Fearless FBI Series)
Plum-Ucci, Carol Body of Christopher Creed
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
Plum-Ucci, Carol The Night My Sister Went Missing
When his sister goes missing under mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Kurt spends a night at the local police station overhearing statements from a variety of witnesses that reveal the deep prejudices and shocking secrets of his small beach community.
Portman, Frank King Dork
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.
Pullman, Phillip A Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart Series)
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
Simmons, Michael Finding Lubchenko
When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.
Sorrells, Kevin Fake ID
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.
Watson, Jude Premontions (Premonitions Series)
Grace has premonitions. They've haunted her since before her mother's death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. Then Grace's best friend Emily disappears. Can she be saved in time?
Tween
Abrahams, Peter Down the Rabbit Hole (Echo Falls Series)
Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her hometown of Echo Falls. Welcome to Echo Falls.
Allison, Jennifer Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator (Gilda Joyce Series)
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
Hautman, Pete and Logue, Mary Snatched (Bloodwaters Mystery Series)
Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.
Horowitz, Anthony The Falcon’s Malteser (Diamond Brothers Mystery Series)
After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
Skelton, Matthew Endymion Spring
Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretly brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.