Mystery Series for Teens

by Peter Abrahams

Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.

1. Down the rabbit hole : an Echo Falls mystery
2. Behind the curtain : an Echo Falls mystery

by Christopher Golden

Horror writer Christopher Golden's body of work includes numerous series for teens and adults, as well as many books that tie in to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television program.... Body of Evidence series of novels focuses on Jenna Blake, a college student who works in a medical examiner's office, a setting that allows her to get involved in solving mysteries.Contemporary Authors Online

1. Body Bags (View Excerpt)
2. Thief of hearts
3. Meets the eye
4. Skin deep
5. Head games
6. Burning bones
7. Last breath
8. Throat culture

by Anthony Horowitz

The "New York Times" bestselling author of the Alex Rider Adventures begins a new mystery series starring Tim Diamond, the world's worst private detective, and his brainy kid brother, Nick.

1. The Falcon's Malteser
2. Public Enemy Number Two
3. Three of Diamonds
4. South by Southeast

by Bennett Madison

Reluctant girl detective Lulu Dark stars in these mysteries full of action and humor, with a touch of romance.

1. Lulu Dark can see through walls : a mystery
2. Lulu Dark and the summer of the Fox : a mystery

by Philip Pullman

In 1986, Pullman published The Ruby in the Smoke, a historical novel for young adults that became the first of his series of books about Sally Lockhart. A thriller set in Victorian London that was inspired by the English melodramas of the period, Ruby concerns the whereabouts of a priceless stone that mysteriously disappeared during the Indian mutiny. Sixteen-year-old Sally, a recently orphaned girl who is savvy about such subjects as business management, military strategy, and firearms, becomes involved in the opium trade when she receives a cryptic note written in a strange hand soon after hearing word of her father's drowning off Singapore. Contemporary Authors Online

1. The Tiger in the Well
2. The Ruby in the Smoke
3. The Shadow in the North

by Ann Rinaldi

Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory.

1. A stitch in time
2. Broken days
3. The blue door

by Walter Sorrells

After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town (description of book #1).

1. Fake ID
2. Club Dread

by Libby Sternberg

1. Uncovering Sadie's secrets : a Bianca Balducci mystery
2. Finding the forger

by Linda Stewart

Justice is Sam's business, his only business. It's not a pretty job or an easy one, but it's a job Sam can do. Then "She" walks into his office, purrs out her unhappy story, and begs him to take her case. Sam doesn't play the sap for anyone, but she's pretty, scared, and needs his help. Or does she?Syndetic Solutions

1. Sam the Cat Detective
2. The Big Catnap
3. The Maltese Kitten
4. Brain trust