MCL's Mystery Fiction for Young Adults

Call #	Author/Title/Description	Year
Y BUN	A Sudden Silence by Eve Bunting Jesse Harmon searches for the hit-and-run driver who killed his brother, Bry.	1988
Y BUR	The Fred Field by Barbara Hood Burgess The summer after he finishes seventh grade, Oren is occupied with turning an empty lot into a memorial ball field honoring his best friend who was murdered there, as well as finding the killer and making him confess.	1994
Y CHE	The Playmaker by J. B. Cheaney While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.	2000
Y CON	Holding Me Here by Pam Conrad Fourteen-year-old Robin tries to patch up the broken home of a battered wife and in the process discovers how deeply she’s been hurt by the divorce of her own parents.	1986
Y COO	The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.	1990
Y COO	The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.	1997
Y COR	In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was connected when he was Denny’s age, a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his father.	1995
Y COR	Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.	2001
Y DOY	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The world-famous private detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, solve mysteries in this timeless classic.	1950
Y DUN	The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in “snatching” his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.	1987
Y HAL	Ride a Dark Horse by Lynn Hall Seventeen-year-old Gutsy finds herself in increasing danger as she tries to prove her suspicions about dishonest breeding practices at the horse farm where she works.	1987
Y HAR	Flashpoint by Janice Harrell Stephie Yates investigates her boyfriend's death in a hit-and-run accident and finds herself being stalked by the killer.	1992
Y HAY	Deadly Deception by Betsy Haynes When her boyfriend is arrested and charged with murdering the school guidance counselor, seventeen-year-old Ashlyn tries to find the real killer.	1994
Y KID	Sizzle and Splat by Ronald Kidd Two high school students, members of a prestigious youth orchestra, investigate the sabotage of an important benefit concert and the kidnapping of the orchestra association president.	1983
Y KIL	The Ghost-Maker by Kathleen Kilgore Lee, suspecting that a spiritualist is victimizing his wealthy grandmother, gets a job as an assistant to a friendly psychic in order to find out what is really going on.	1984
Y KLA	Keeper of the Light by Jan O’Donnell Klaveness Traveling to Cape Hatteras to claim an inheritance from his estranged grandmother, sixteen-year-old Ian finds his life in danger when he starts to investigate the events surrounding her death.	1990
Y LEO	Strange Waters by Constance Leonard Working on board a yacht in the Grecian islands, Tracy James becomes involved in murder and the theft of priceless artifacts from a museum.	1985
Y LIS	The Devils Own by Deborah Lisson Bored on her father’s boat off the west coast of Australia, fifteen-year-old Julianna finds herself swept into a seventeenth-century nightmare of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder.	1990
Y MAR	Missing Since Monday by Ann M. Martin When their little sister doesn’t come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.	1986
Y MAZ	Taking Terri Mueller by Norma Fox Mazer Fourteen-year-old Terri remembers only life with her father, but then she discovers that he kidnapped her from her mother after a divorce and that her mother is still alive.	1981
Y MCI	The Case of the Constant Caller: A Father Dowling Mystery for Young Adults by Ralph McIrney When an older parishioner of St. Hilary’s finds his prized computer is missing, a trio of young sleuths, aided by the counsel of Father Dowling, uncovers the truth.	1995
Y NIX	Spirit Seeker by Joan Lowery Nixon Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant to prove that her friend did not kill his parents.	1995
Y OKI	Who Did It, Jenny Lake? by Jean Davies Okimoto On vacation in Hawaii, Jennifer and Freddie, classmates and friends, take time out from having fun to investigate the murder of an elderly acquaintance.	1983
Y PET	The Freshman Detective Blues by P.J. Petersen Eddie, age fourteen, and Jack, age seventeen, find a skeleton weighted down in Muir Lake, and Jack thinks it might be his father who’s been missing for nine years.	1987
Y PUL	The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.	1985
Y ROB	Twisted Summer by Willo Davis Roberts Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach, but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder which had occurred there the previous year.	1996
Y SCO	Playing Murder by Sandra Scoppettone When one of the players in a murder game is killed, seventeen-year-old Anna and her twin brother realize that their circle of friends may conceal a real murderer.	1985
Y SYK	For Mike by Shelley Sykes When Jeff's best friend Mike disappears in the fall of their senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold.	1998
Y TAY	Sniper by Theodore Taylor Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the cats in his family’s private zoological preserve.	1989
Y VOI	The Callender Papers by Cynthia Voigt Thirteen-year-old Jean spends her summer organizing the papers of a reclusive artist and stumbles across a terrifying murder from the past.	1983
Y WEL	The Man in the Woods by Rosemary Wells Helen’s life is in danger when she tries to find the mysterious person throwing rocks at cars.	1984
Y WER	Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.	2001
Y WER	The Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin, Lily.	1998
Y WES	A Place to Hide by Robert Westall When the British government decides to have her father killed for exposing political corruption, eighteen-year-old Lucy is forced to leave her home and establish a new identity.	1994
Y ZIN	The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel Bobby and Lauri are sure their next-door neighbor, an undertaker, murdered his wife, but only some sleuthing in the mortuary is going to prove it.	1978