Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction

On a dark and stormy night, a book collector shows Mortensen the prize of his collection: an illuminated manuscript from 1512.

Twelve year Coby Jay Evans; nickname Shorty should have been ready.

Debra and her sister Chanise were born only 18 months apart.

A powerful novel-in-verse about a chance encounter that changes the lives of two girls forever.

A tribute to Florida, fishing, and family, Cynthia DeFelice's The Missing Manatee is "e;Sure to hook readers.

Xena and Xander have just learned that their shy classmate, Alice, is the heir to a royal throne!

"e;The world of Nightmares, Sirens, Wizards and Demons at Arkwell Academy is wondrous and strange"e; in this "e;whimsical and wild"e; young adult urban fantasy (Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Anna Dressed in Blood).

A murder goes unsolved for over twenty years.

Five years ago Wren McAllister had it all, a successful career, a beautiful wife, and a loving family.

Scooter Kane is not your typical detective.

A smart, twisty whodunnit from from the author of the scandalous SUDDENLY A MURDER.

As a child, Sue Goodman Harris avidly read mysteries, such as the Judy Bolton series.

Beverly Swerdlow Brown, published author of OLIVER'S HIGH FIVE, THETRAVELLING PILLOW and other children's books plus several mystery titles,enjoys river-rafting and treasure hunting at flea markets.

As Oklahoma contends with a drought that summer, Rad Sergeant, Peter Logan, Max Frost, Tyler Sergeant and Joshua Myers are searching the mountains behind the Sergeant's ranch for a herd of wild horses.

Ten-year-old Madeleine has begged her parents to let her go to Camp Barnaby for the summer.

The Forrest family buys a run down house on Apple Orchard Road.

How would you like to read a year's worth of mystery, one month at a time?

Anxious young Stephen Noble and his friend Renee are the dogwalking detectives!

Bird returns to Saddle Creek and her beloved horse Sunny for Christmas.

Bird returns to Saddle Creek and her beloved horse Sunny for Christmas.

Noble Dog Walking takes care of pets, even if they slither.

Noble Dog Walking takes care of pets, even if they slither.

Death, deception, discrimination, and cruelty to horses confront Bird as she uncovers the secrets of her past.

Death, deception, discrimination, and cruelty to horses confront Bird as she uncovers the secrets of her past.

A violent death throws a horse-riding community into conflict, stirring up fear, uncertainty, mental illness, and a mysterious stranger .

A violent death throws a horse-riding community into conflict, stirring up fear, uncertainty, mental illness, and a mysterious stranger .

Romance and the supernatural mingle with uncontrolled dark ambition, and Abby - with the help of her extraordinary horse, Dancer - must put a stop to it before her entire community is destroyed.

Romance and the supernatural mingle with uncontrolled dark ambition, and Abby - with the help of her extraordinary horse, Dancer - must put a stop to it before her entire community is destroyed.

They say he's been stealing art.

They say he's been stealing art.

Some people count their blessings, but dogwalker Stephen Nobel counts mistakes.

Some people count their blessings, but dogwalker Stephen Nobel counts mistakes.

This four-book bundle collects the adventures of twelve-year-old adventurer and bone expert Peggy Henderson.

Peggy is off to a Viking site in North America where she unearths the remains of a brave young warrior.

Fourteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon cannot face another boring summer in Springhills.

In the fourth and final instalment in the Jennifer Bannon mystery series, Jennifer begins Grade Eleven at Springhills High, where her life is far from settled.

Feeling somehow to blame for her father's absence, thirteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon struggles to hang on to her dream that he will return and they can be a family again - a dream that doesnt include her mother's new boyfriend, nights of looking after her little sister or a ninth grade year that is rapidly going down the toilet.

Something is haunting the Laingford Pioneer Village Park, a mysterious presence that seems determined to get Alan and his two friends in trouble.

There was something floating in the water ahead of the canoe.

Feeling somehow to blame for her father's absence, thirteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon struggles to hang on to her dream that he will return and they can be a family again - a dream that doesnt include her mother's new boyfriend, nights of looking after her little sister or a ninth grade year that is rapidly going down the toilet.

In the fourth and final instalment in the Jennifer Bannon mystery series, Jennifer begins Grade Eleven at Springhills High, where her life is far from settled.

Something is haunting the Laingford Pioneer Village Park, a mysterious presence that seems determined to get Alan and his two friends in trouble.

An expedition to investigate an old sunken ship teaches Peggy lessons about herself.

An expedition to investigate an old sunken ship teaches Peggy lessons about herself.

There was something floating in the water ahead of the canoe.

Fourteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon cannot face another boring summer in Springhills.

A vandalized burial in an abandoned pioneer cemetery brings 12-year-old Peggy Henderson and her elderly archaeologist friend Eddy to Golden, British Columbia, to excavate.

Jessica Marsh, who is fifteen and "e;hasn't lost her baby-fat yet,"e; lives with her mother on the top floor of a hundred-year-old triplex in Parkdale, a multicultural area in Toronto.

A brother and sister find a man entombed in ice in a Rocky Mountain glacier.

While camping in Ontario's Algonquin Park with their fathers, best friends Dani and Caitlin spend the night by themselves at an isolated site on Canoe Lake, rumoured to be the favourite spot of the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson.