MYSTERIES & DETECTIVE STORIES
Here you will find tales to solve with secrets and twists. Each
book includes title, author, call number (where to find it at Uni!),
and a short description from NoveList.
Ninth Key
Cabot, Meg
Fiction C112n 2005
Sixteen-year-old Suze Simon can mediate between the living and the dead,
and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century, but she is also
troubled by the ghost of a murdered woman.
Cat Among the Pigeons
Christie, Agatha
Fiction C46c 1991
The smuggled jewels of a Middle East sheik, revolution in Ramat, and
murder at an exclusive English girls' school hold a curious connection
for detective Hercule Poirot.
Tenderness
Cormier, Robert
Fiction C8133te 1998
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer
and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
Thursday Next series
Fforde, Jasper
Fiction F439
In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next,
a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third
Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre,
from works of literature.
1 The Eyre Affair
2 Lost in a Good Book
3 The Well of Lost Plots
4 Something Rotten
As Simple as Snow
Galloway, Greg
Fiction G146a 2005
In awe of high schooler Anna Cayne and her penchant for magic tricks
and riddles, a man is baffled by her mysterious disappearance just before
Valentine's Day and retraces the time they spent together for clues to her fate.
The Silence of the Lambs
Harris, Thomas
Fiction H2445s1989
FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save
her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts
to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to
another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
Dead North: An Alaska Mystery
Henry, Sue
Fiction H3964m 2002
Jessie Arnold accepts an offer to drive a friend's RV up to Alaska after a
fire in her home leaves Jessie with nothing. She picks up a teenage runaway
named Patrick along the way. He disappears and shortly thereafter Jessie is
stopped and interrogated by police in connection with two murders they believe
Patrick is responsible for.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes, Sherlock
Fiction D77ho2001
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
McCall Smith, Alexander
Fiction M124
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe investigates
several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case
of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.
1 No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
3 Morality for Beautiful Girls
4 Tears of the Giraffe
So Yesterday
Westerfeld, Scott
Fiction W5233s
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations
to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's
creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed
at the heart of consumer culture.
Batman: Year 100
Pope, Paul
GN P8267b
In 2039, after a federal agent is murdered, a contingent of top Washington
operatives is despatched to find the killer, as Detective Gordon of the GCPD,
grandson of the former commissioner, launches his own investigation, and
finds himself on the hunt for Batman.
Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries
Russell, P. Craig
GN G127mu
In the city of angels, where the universe is being prepared according to the
Lord's specifications, one angel is found dead, and Raguel, the Vengeance of
the Lord, is sent by Lucifer, Captain of the Host, to investigate.
Ruse: Enter the Detective
Waid, Mark
GN W1381ru
Emma Bishop works to both help and protect her investigative partner,
Simon Archard, as they look into the connection between a dockman's death
and a shipment of a mysterious narcotic powder, leading them to newcomer
Miranda Cross.
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