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"Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught...
2) Gun games
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[2012]
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LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep--witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city's most exclusive prep schools. Gregory's mother, Wendy, refuses...
3) Haunted
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Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 10
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Detective Michael Bennett and his family are about to be haunted by a father's worst nightmare--the signs he should have seen and a son's desperate cry for help. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families, the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. An idyllic country town in the Maine woods is haunted by an epidemic emptying its streets and preying on its youth. Turns out the vacation brochures don't tell the full story-the...
4) Don't let go
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"With unmatched suspense and emotional insight, Harlan Cob enexplores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town in this powerful new thriller. Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks -- and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke...
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"When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don't solve the mystery of how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux...
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"In the new crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd. Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night...
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The voices of the dead become inescapable clues for lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly in this “winning series” (Booklist) of murder—and beyond—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris…
Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling...
Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling...
9) Bloody bones
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Anita Blake vampire hunter novel volume 5
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Preternatural expert Anita Blake is hired to raise a couple of two-hundred-year-old corpses to settle a dispute over who owns the land they are buried in, but she runs into trouble when she realizes she has stumbled into the middle of someone else's spell.
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Viking
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2014.
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"When the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C., judge is found dead, three local black kids are arrested for her murder--but reporter Sully Carter suspects there's more to the case. From the city's grittiest backstreets to the elegant halls of power, wry yet wounded Sully pursues a string of cold cases, all the while fighting against pressure from government officials, police, suspicious locals, and his own bosses at the newspaper. Based...
11) Hotwire
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In western Nebraska, what starts as a group of teens filming their drug-fueled party ends explosively, leaving victims apparently electrocuted with odd scorch marks. As Special Agent Maggie O'Dell sorts reality from hallucination in their stories, she realizes that the survivors are being eliminated. On the East Coast, her partner R. J. Tully and Army colonel Ben Platt investigate a deadly pathogen outbreak - a case that will soon collide with hers....
12) Five midnights
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Five midnights volume 1
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Tor Teen
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Caribbean American Heritage Month (teens)
GPLD Best Mystery/Thrillers for Teens
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
GPLD Best Mystery/Thrillers for Teens
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (teens)
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"Five friends cursed. Five deadly fates. Five nights of retribución. Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre must come together to solve a series of grisly murders sweeping through Puerto Rico, but the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends. And if they want to catch the killer before the killer catches them, they'll have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking there--murderer, or monster?"--
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Thorndike Press
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2008.
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'Tis the season to be wary...
Christmas is coming and all is far from calm in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. Newcomer Christian DeAngelo—Angel to his friends—is at his wit's end trying to manage Sonny, the hotheaded nineteen-year-old everyone believes is his nephew. In fact, Sonny is the orphaned son of a notorious mob boss, a protected witness...and Angel's responsibility.
Angel has been commiserating with Eileen Moggeridge, whose lonely...
Christmas is coming and all is far from calm in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. Newcomer Christian DeAngelo—Angel to his friends—is at his wit's end trying to manage Sonny, the hotheaded nineteen-year-old everyone believes is his nephew. In fact, Sonny is the orphaned son of a notorious mob boss, a protected witness...and Angel's responsibility.
Angel has been commiserating with Eileen Moggeridge, whose lonely...
14) Goodbye forever
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Kit Doyle mystery volume 2
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Severn House Publishers
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2016.
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English
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Crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover - and into danger - in the second of this intriguing crime series. 17-year-old Jessica is missing. There are no clues as to why she disappeared - apart from the note she left behind: I love you. Goodbye forever. It turns out that Jessica is not the first teenager to have gone missing, nor the first to have left exactly the same note. With a personal family connection to the missing girl, crime...
15) Cold to the bone
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Nicole Cobain mystery volume 1
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"First female sheriff of Toole County, Montana, Nicole Cobain earned the position through mental and physical grit and when a young girl is found murdered on icy Lake Maria, every bit of it is tested. But what begins as a chase for the killer quickly unravels into a high stakes medical transaction with harrowing consequences"--Dustjacket flap.
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Revell
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[2006]
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Haley Farrell's life is back on track. Cleared of any involvement in the murder of her best friend, Haley has found loyal decorating clients and has taken over a successful auction house. Life is good--even if she does have to deal with good-looking but infuriating general contractor Dutch Merrill once again. But when another body is uncovered, it's clear that the death was no accident. What's worse, Dutch is implicated. Haley realizes it's up to...
17) The 2nd lie
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MIRA
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[2010]
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English
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"People in Chandler, Ohio, say it's small-town America at its best. They say big-city problems don't happen here. They're wrong. That's why psychologist Kelly Chapman is so concerned about fourteen-year-old Maggie Winston. She's a straight-A student who's developed a sudden interest in an older man. A man she knows only as Mac. Deputy Samantha Jones, Kelly's longtime friend, is worried, too. She has been ever since a local businessman killed his wife...
18) Wrapped in white
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Arrow
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2013.
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English
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What do you do when you come face to face with your living nightmare? The gripping new novel from the author of "A Dance of Ghosts." PI John Craine -- still struggling to cope with the weight of his past -- is forced to finally confront it in his most personal and frightening case yet. PI John Craine is hired to investigate the brutal murder of a Somali youth called Jamaal Tan. The police are treating the murder as just another gang-related crime,...
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Hyperion
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2018.
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English
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Follows small town girl Jessie as she deals with first love and loss.
When Jessie's boyfriend, Chris, disappears right before graduation, she presses the police to investigate, fearing that Chris--who is black--has been targeted for violence.
20) Postrach
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Wydawnictwo Initium
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[2022]
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Polish
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Czy wiesz o tym, że są rzeczy znacznie gorsze od śmierci? Zostań częścią mrocznych wydarzeń ukazanych w bestsellerowej książce "Postrach". Co dla swoich ofiar przygotował tajemniczy porywacz? W Warszawie wiele mówi się o Postrachu. Ten przydomek zyskał tajemniczy porywacz, który skupia się na dzieciach zamożnych rodzin. Każda porwana osoba ma ukończone 17 lat. Najdziwniejszy jest jednak fakt, że nigdy nie żąda okupu, ani nie...
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