mystery fiction

With gripping results, this companion novel to Undercover Latina returns to the high-stakes world of the Factory--an international organization of spies protecting people of color. Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall?s biggest problem is being the only plus-size Black girl at a white private school?until her house burns down and her family is unexpectedly on the run. Suddenly, she?s reeling from the news that her formerly boring mom is being pursued by an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, and her scientist dad has gone MIA. At the same time, she has to navigate an underfunded school in the city, suffering the cultural whiplash of being surrounded by other Black students, including the cute boy who?s an old family friend. How much danger is their family really in, and how untraceable are they trying to be? Her mom offers only half-answers and roundabout lies, so Amani starts to investigate. But her sleuthing has unexpected consequences, uncovering secret family legacies that will change their lives forever. A revealing prequel to Undercover Latina for existing fans, Untraceable also serves as a thrilling introduction to the world of the Factory for readers encountering this fast-paced spy series for the first time.

Bel, eighteen, has lived her life in the aftermath of her mother's mysterious disappearance sixteen years ago, when Bel was a toddler--and the only witness to what actually happened. Wishing everyone would accept her mother is probably dead and move on, Bel is horrified when her family agrees to film a true-crime documentary, and then shocked to her core when her mother returns alive during the filming. The cameras still rolling, Bel must figure out if her mother is lying about what really happened, why, and if her mother is dangerous.

While visiting Michigan's Upper Peninsula to prepare their Great-aunt Sophie's big old house for sale, the Boxcar Children encounter a mystery involving a valuable ring supposedly hidden somewhere in the house.

Publisher Annotation: On a visit to their local seaside park, Penn is convinced there has been a mermaid sighting, and Paige is determined-once again-to prove him wrong, one fact at a time.

In 1924 Denver, private investigator Annalee Spain becomes the suspect in a murder when she offers her lace handkerchief to a distraught woman in a local library, whose husband is later found murdered. Battling a corrupt police force filled with Klu Klux Klan members searching for a way to bring her down, and the disappearance of her boyfriend Jack, a pastor, Annalee must rely on her faith and wits to weed out a growing list of suspects, stay one step ahead of her enemies, and find Jack.

After her boyfriend leaves her, twenty-something Scarlett Gardner tries to keep the Palm Trees and Page Turners bookshop in Southern California afloat with her only employee, Evelyn Maxwell. Then a customer is found dead and it turns out she left a small fortune to Scarlett. Now Evelyn's husband, police detective Steve Maxwell of the Oceanside Police, believes Scarlett is a prime suspect. To clear her name, Scarlett must find out just how she is connected to the victim.

When the popular TV series "Only Murders in Gotham" chooses the Village Blend as a place to shoot its new season, shop manager and master roaster Clare Cosi is thrilled at the chance to show off the shop, especially when her bulletproof coffee lands her a craft services contract for the production. But when a real bullet is fired from a prop gun that could have killed one of Clare's baristas working as an extra, she knows she has to get to the bottom of what is really going on before someone dies.

At Christmastime, Virginia blacksmith Meg Langslow enters a weaponsmithing competition after someone attacks Faulk, her blacksmithing mentor, eliminating him from the contest. Meg agrees to replace him at the competition held at a Goth castle on the estate of Ragnarshjem owned by her friend Ragnar, a retired heavy metal drummer. With ruthless contestants, old grudges and feuds, and weapons everywhere, Meg sets out to learn who is behind the drama and strange incidents.

Massachusetts bookstore owner Gemma and her tea-shop owner friend Jane are called in to investigate purported hauntings at a historical reenactment museum known as Scarlet House. When they discover a dead body on the property and a museum filled with secrets, their list of suspects grows, as does the threat to their lives.

Agnes Sharp opens Sunset Hall, her family home in the English village of Duck End, to fellow retirees to live out their twilight years in peace, but they are shocked to learn that a dead body has been discovered in the house next door to theirs. Agnes and the rest of her friends hope that this death can explain the death of one of their own: Lilith, whose body they're currently hiding in their shed. The group begins to investigate and soon discover shocking secrets.