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Mystery and Thriller Books for Teens

Naperville Public Library

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  • Twenty five girls are invited to attend the mysterious Camp So-and-So over the summer where they work with their cabin mates to compete in the All-Camp Sports 7 Follies.
    BookMinneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, [2017] — TEEN MCCOY
  • When outsiders threaten the administrator for the CatNet online community, a sentient AI who loves cat pictures, and a threat from her past catches up to her, Steph and her friends--both online and in real life--must save her.
    BookNew York : Tor Teen, 2019. — TEEN KRITZER
  • After spending six years with his parents and his two sisters in an underground compound built by his father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, Eli discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
    BookNew York : Square Fish, 2009. — TEEN BODEEN
  • During a family trip to China, eleven-year-old Mia Chen and her older brother, Jake, follow clues and solve riddles in hopes of finding their missing Aunt Lin and, perhaps, a legendary treasure.
    BookNew York : Aladdin, 2017. — TEEN ZHANG
  • When his petty criminal father's activities land the family in the Witness Protection Program, Nick is forced to assume a new identity in a different community where he ruminates on the conspiracy his friend died trying to uncover.
    BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014] — TEEN GILES
  • When in-house detective Charlie comes up against a case he can't crack, he calls upon sixteen-year-old Goldie, who uses her skills, smarts, and connections to solve the case.
    Graphic NovelLos Angeles, CA : Boom! Box, [2016] — TEEN GN LARSON v.1
  • Thirteen-year-old Aven was born without arms and has trouble fitting in at her new school after her parents take a job at a dying western theme park, but she makes a new friend in a fellow disabled boy who helps her solve a mystery at the…
    BookNew York : Sterling Children's Books, [2017] — J BOWLING
  • Seventeen-year-old best friends Esme and Kayla return to Camp Pine Lake as counselors in training, but the dark secret they have been hiding for nine years is back to haunt them.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2021] — TEEN PRESTON
  • Spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, Candice discovers the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, and with her new friend Brandon, sets off to expose the injustice once committed against a local African American…
    BookNew York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018. — J JOHNSON
  • 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.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2019] — TEEN MCMANUS
  • A contemporary thriller by a debut author follows two Niveus Private Academy students who, selected to be part of the elite schools senior class prefects, are pitted against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.
    BookNew York, NY : Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, 2021. — TEEN ABIKE
  • Five years after a series of accidents that left five cheerleaders dead, including her sister, Monica's world begins to unravel after learning that the events of the past are not over.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2018] — TEEN THOMAS
  • As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
    Book©2019 — TEEN JACKSON
  • When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — TEEN BARNES
  • Locked in a room by an unknown kidnapper who slid her basic needs through a pet door, a 17-year-old girl escapes back home to her family and struggles with crippling PTSD that compels her to write a therapeutic diary chronicling her…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2020. — TEEN STOLARZ
  • When her friend Monday Charles goes missing and Monday's mother refuses to give her a straight answer, Claudia digs into her disappearance.
    BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — TEEN JACKSON
  • Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2018. — TEEN SUMMERS
  • Rival teens Charlotte and Jamie, descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, investigate the mystery of why they are being framed for murder at their American boarding school.
    BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — TEEN CAVALLAR
  • When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
    BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — TEEN JOHNSON
  • Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2014] — TEEN LOCKHART