Fiction+-+Mysteries

=// New Fiction Books at Cal Young ~ 2009-2010 //=

//** Mysteries ~ Detective Fiction ~ Thrillers **//
FIC Abb Abbott, Tony //**The Postcard**// 2008. While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to help clean out his recently-deceased grandmother's house, thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard which leads him on an adventure that blends figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.

FIC Bau Bauer, Joan //**Peeled**// In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.

FIC Bei Beil, Michael D. //**The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour**// 2009. Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.

FIC Bro Broach, Elise 2008. After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 * //Masterpiece//**

FIC Fer Ferraiolo, Jack D. //**The Big Splash**// 2008. Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.

FIC Hig Higgins, F. E. //**The Bone Magician**// 2008. With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims may have attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak.

FIC Laf La Fevers, R. L. //**Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos**// 2007. Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work.

FIC Laf La Fevers, R. L. 2008. When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses.
 * //Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris//**

FIC Mac Mack, Tracy 2009: The ragtag group of orphan boys known as the Baker Street Irregulars faces shady characters and seemingly real ghosts when they assist the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in investigating the mysterious death of Greta Berlinger during a seance.
 * //The Mystery of the Conjured Man//**: //**Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars ; casebook no. 2**//

FIC Ste Stead, Rebecca //**When You Reach Me**// 2009. As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.