mystery fiction

Lily Armitage is summoned to her family's grand manor for Christmas by her estranged aunt who wants her to take part in a family tradition to play the Christmas game, promising that whoever wins will secure the deed to the home. As Lily gathers with her cousins to play the game, she realizes that each of them have their own agenda and they're not about to play fair. But Lily isn't interested in the home, she wants to learn who killed her mother there twenty-one years ago. When a snowstorm strands them however, she realizes someone is hiding a secret and the game takes a deadly turn.

After her younger sister, Piper, is in a hiking accident that leaves her in a coma, Savannah finds evidence that her fall from a mountain may be related to their school's Survival Club--and it may not have been accidental. As she tries to figure out who would want to hurt Piper, Savannah joins the club on their weekend camping trip to the same mountain where Piper fell. Savannah tries to learn what happened to Piper in a club where everyone is a suspect and everyone is keeping secrets.

In a Philadelphia neighborhood, a young woman named Kacey struggles with addiction, while her sister Mickey works as a cop. The two don't speak and the police department doesn't know they are related. However, when Kacey disappears, Mickey panics and risks her job, and the welfare of her young son, to find Kacey before it's too late.

When she was twenty-five years old, Lexi Kennedy starred in a horror film shot by famous director Rick Plummer at his estate in the Florida Keys. After several cast members died during the filming, Lexi was left permanently traumatized and the film exploded in popularity. Lexi eventually married Cam, Rick's son, whom she met on set, but he went missing a year ago and Lexi blames his presumed death on Rick. When she hears Rick is going to be filming a sequel to the film, she forbids her daughter Quinn, seventeen, to join the cast. However, as a category-four hurricane bears down on the Keys, Quinn runs away anyway to join the movie and Lexi follows, knowing danger awaits her on the set.

Upon waking up in the hospital, seventeen-year-old Hunter Gifford learns that he and his girlfriend Chloe were involved in an accident, and that Chloe is missing. Suffering from a concussion and with no memory of what happened, Hunter quickly becomes a suspect in her disappearance. He joins with his sister Olivia and Olivia's girlfriend Gabriela to fill in the missing pieces of what happened, as the town's suspicion of his guilt grows.

When her beloved father, the only psychiatrist in their small Ohio town, dies in a mysterious car accident, high school outcast and lonely lesbian Sydney investigates the death, starting with why homecoming queen June attended his funeral.

When her father, an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, is arrested for the murder of a teen girl, Emily's efforts to exonerate him take her into the mysterious woods where the victim was last seen alive.

Jamie Watson wins an unwanted rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school not far away from his estranged father. Also at the school is Charlotte Holmes, great-great-great-granddaughter of the famous Sherlock. Jamie decides to admire the volatile girl from afar, but when the two of them are framed for murder, Jamie and Charlotte have no choice but to come together and clear their names.

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 on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.

Jules Larsen takes an unusual apartment-sitting job at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's highest-profile and most mysterious buildings. Jules soon discovers that the building holds many secrets when a fellow housesitter disappears.