Johnson, Maureen
Summary: Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHMayor, Archer
Summary: "In Archer Mayor's intriguing new Vermont-based mystery, The Orphan's Guilt, a straightforward traffic stop snowballs into a homicide investigation after Joe Gunther and his fellow investigators peel back layer upon layer of history and personal heartbreak to learn a decades-old hidden truth. John Rust is arrested for drunk driving by a Vermont state trooper. Looking to find mitigating...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mayor 2020Peterfreund, Diana
Summary: "When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETPeterfreund, Diana
Summary: "In the aftermath of Headmaster Boddy's murder, Blackbrook Academy has been thrown into complete disarray. Half the student body hasn't bothered to return to campus--but those who have include Orchid, Vaughn, Scarlett, Peacock, Plum, and Mustard, now warily referred to by the other students as the Murder Crew. When another staff member is found dead and an anonymous threat begins to target the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETClare, Alys
Summary: "London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAJohnson, Maureen
Summary: After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange things going on at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Johnson 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOHTaylor, Jordyn
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Alyson discovers her classmates' dark side when a top-secret competition to see who has the most sexual prowess ends with a popular LAX captain's disappearance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYSambury, Liselle
Summary: When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMLord, Emery
Summary: Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury YA 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORThomas, M. J.
Summary: "Peter, Mary, and their faithful dog Hank travel back to the time of Noah. With only seven days to solve the riddle of the scroll and escape the impending flood, Peter, Mary, and Hank must race to help Noah and his family finish the ark"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/ideals 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THODe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Spencer Sandoval goes to dangerous lengths to uncover the truth about a fatal car crash and its relation to her school's honor roll.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LChristie, Agatha
Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRThomas, M. J.
Summary: A scroll Great-Uncle Solomon, an archaeologist, found near the Dead Sea send Peter, nine, and Mary, ten, to the first moment of Creation and to the Garden of Eden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mayor, Archer
Summary: "In Archer Mayor's Marked Man, the death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed. A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYJohansen, Iris
Summary: Investigating the baffling murders of two staff members at a school for the blind, investigator Kendra Michaels draws on her experience with a former sight disability to uncover a terrifying conspiracy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC JOHMcManus, Karen M.
Summary: "Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mayor, Archer.
Summary: "An unidentified man is found face down in an abandoned quarry, strangled with a piano wire. The labels have been cut from his clothes, his facial features are Slavic in appearance, and his toes are tattooed with Russian letters. When no one reports any missing persons, and no police agency responds to a fingerprint check, it looks like a dead end for Joe Gunther and his team. But then why are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AM Press 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYKeating, Jess
Summary: Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEAMakkai, Rebecca
Summary: A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletic trainer,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MAKMcManus, Karen M.
Summary: While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MCMSummary: Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GRISandford, John
Summary: Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine month old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year old ward, Letty West.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANGoodman, Jessica
Summary: During the annual initiation of members into the exclusive Legacy Club, the surprise nomination of Tori Tasso, a scholarship student, jeopardizes the club's clandestine truths and leads to a perilous Legacy Ball where one attendee does not make it out alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOOSandford, John
Summary: Lucas Davenport's old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooting job for the cases that are too complicated for others to handle--cases like when two people, a white woman and a black man, are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003