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The Mystery of Hollow Places
By Rebecca Podos (YA Podo)
A mystery writer's daughter sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them years before.

Lexile: 900
This Is Our Story
By Ashley Elston (YA Elst)
When a hunting accident claims a boy's life, his best friends all come under suspicion.

Lexile: 720
Who Killed Christopher Goodman?
By Allan Wolf (YA Wolf)
Everybody likes Chris Goodman, but when he is found dead, no one understands how something like this could happen.

Lexile: N/A
The Amateurs
By Sara Shepherd (YA Shep)
Four teens who met on an online cold-case solving forum attempt to solve another teen's murder.

Lexile: 690
The Girl I Used To Be
By April Henry (YA Henr)
Olivia's parents were killed fourteen years ago. Now, new evidence reopens the case . . . and she finds herself involved.

Lexile: 660
With Malice
By Eileen Cook (YA Cook)

Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital, unable to remember the past six weeks, including the accident that killed her best friend, if it was, in fact, an accident.
Lexile: 730
One of Us is Lying
By Karen McManus (YA McMa)
When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case.

Lexile: 730
The Truth Beneath The Lies
By Amanda Searcy (YA Sear)
A psychological thriller following two teen girls, one from a Texas border town hoping to outrun her past and another from Washington state who fears for her future in a public housing complex; when their worlds collide, only one girl will make it out alive.

Lexile: 540
The Cemetery Boys
By Zac Brewer (YA Brew)
When Stephen moves to the Midwestern town where his father grew up, he quickly falls in with punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon, but the town has a dark secret, and the twins are caught in the middle of it.

Lexile: 750
Wink, Poppy, Midnight
By April Genevieve Tucholke (YA Tuch)
Three separate voices come together to reveal the secrets and mysteries hiding in the woods around their home.

Lexile: 840
No Such Person
By Caroline Cooney (YA Coon)
A murder mystery in a small town raises suspicions when a member of a well-regarded family in the community is implicated.

Lexile: 670
The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
By Chelsea Sedoti (YA Sedo)
When popular Lizzie Lovett goes missing, seventeen-year-old Hawthorne, a lonely misfit, finds herself becoming obsessed with solving the mystery.

Lexile: 680
Little Monsters
By Kara Thomas (YA Thom)
When Kacey moves in with her estranged father and his new family, her new friend goes missing and Kacey finds herself at the center of the investigation.

Lexile: 700
You Killed Wesley Payne
By Sean Beaudion (YA Beau)
When hard-boiled, seventeen-year-old private investigator Dalton Rev transfers to Salt River High to solve the case of a dead student, he has his hands full trying to outwit the police, negotiate the school's social hierarchy, and get paid.

Lexile: 660