Mysteriously sent to detention on a Monday afternoon, five students walk into Mr. Avery’s lab but only four walk out. Those four students find themselves suspects in Simon Kelleher’s murder investigation. Simon ran a gossip app that reveals secrets of Bayview High’s student body. Bronwyn Rojas, Addy Prentiss, Cooper Clay, and Nate Macauley all have secrets, big secrets. But would they kill to keep their secrets from being revealed?
Jamie Watson received a scholarship to play rugby at Sherringford, a private school in Connecticut. So he leaves his mom in London and makes his way to Connecticut near his estranged father who he hasn’t seen since he was ten years old. At Sherringford, Watson runs into Charlotte Holmes, the great, great, great granddaughter, of Sherlock Holmes. Jamie is the great, great, great grandson of John Watson. Is it a coincidence that these two have ended up at the same boarding school? Of course not, for soon there’s a murder of a student on the Sherringford campus, and Jamie and Charlotte are both considered prime suspects. But things are never as simple as they seem. Someone is using the mysteries Sherlock Holmes to frame this new pair of Holmes & Watson. Holmes’s skills of deduction and Watson’s trust and loyalty will be tested to the limits.
The Sunderly family has left the comforts of their home in Kent, England to accompany Reverend Erasmus Sunderly to the island of Vane where he has been commissioned to assist on an archeological dig. Set during Victorian times when women have few rights, Reverend Sunderly’s young daughter Frances lives a double life. Frances is intrigued by science. She fancies herself a scientist and is extremely observant of her surroundings. Because she goes unnoticed, she learns many secrets. She has discovered that not everything about her family is what it seems to be. These secrets lead to her father’s death. His death was not accidental, nor was it a suicide. Frances is determined to seek justice for her father, and in doing so will learn even more dangerous secrets about her father and his work.
Serafina is the CRC (Chief Rat Catcher) on the Vanderbilt’s Biltmore Estate where her father works as a maintenance man. Though she is a child of the night, Pa has warned her to stay away from the deep parts of the forest as there is an evil that lurks there. Serafina is stealth in her maneuvers around the Biltmore Estate. People do not notice her and she has a skill of making herself almost invisible. But Serafina notices things, and when children start disappearing she knows it is the man with the black cape. But which man? There are several men visiting the Biltmore Estate. Serafina, the CRC, sets out to catch a very dangerous rat! And, yes, she will have to venture into the forbidden forest to catch the man with the black cloak.
Alexis, Ruby, and Nick are the newest members of Portland’s Search and Rescue. Thrown together on a team during a search for a missing autistic man named Bobby, they couldn’t be more different. Alexis can’t let people she meets get too close because then they’d find out about her mother’s mental illness. Nick lost his dad in Iraq where his dad was a soldier. Nick is always pushing himself to do more and be brave, trying to be the son of which his father would be proud. Ruby is brilliant and obsessed with criminal forensics, but she lacks social skills so people find her a bit odd. Knowing this is their first time out in the field searching for a missing person, their leader Mitchell Wiggins sends the trio to a location where they are unlikely to find him. They don’t find Bobby but they do find a body of a young girl. As they call into the Search and Rescue base to report their discovery, they are wondering if one of the hikers that they passed on the trail could be her killer?
Blue Sargent, the only non-clairvoyant in a family of clairvoyants, sits in the isolated and abandoned churchyard with her Aunt Neeve on St. Mark’s Eve where her aunt watches the soon-t0-be dead walk by. Then she sees a boy! Blue Sargent, non-clairvoyant, sees a soon-to-be dead boy! “Get his name,” Neeve commands. Blue asks the boy his name. “Gansy.” Why could Blue see him? “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve, Blue. Either you’re his true love,” Neeve said, “or you killed him.” Gansy and Blue meet. Blue finds herself drawn to Gansy. Gansy attends Aglionby, a local private school in Henreitta. He’s a Raven boy. Gansy and his friends, Ronan, Adam and Noah, are on a quest. Blue is caught up in their quest all the while knowing that within the year Gansy will be dead.
As a fan of fairy tales and libraries, I couldn’t help but be drawn to this book. Mr. Mauskopf, Elizabeth’s social studies teacher, recommends her for a job at the New York Circulating Material Repository after reading her research report on the Brothers Grimm. The Repository is similar to a museum with artifacts but the patrons may check out these items like a library. Elizabeth has a successful interview and passes her strange sorting exam to be hired as a page at the Repository. Soon she discovers that mysterious things are happening in the Repository, and much of the mystery is connected to the Grimm Collection, magical objects, like the seven-league boots, right out of the fairy tales. Elizabeth and the other pages, Marc, Anjali and Aaron, get swept up in the fantasy and mystery as these objects begin to disappear from the Repository and they set out to discover what is going on.
When the lift opens, Thomas finds himself deposited in a community of young males called the Glade. He can’t remember a thing besides his name, yet he gets little flashes of memories. Are the memories his? Was his mind erased? Why do somethings about this community seem so familiar? Through talks with Alby and Chuck, Thomas learns that every month a new boy arrives in the lift knowing only his name. Every morning the walls of their compound open to a maze and every evening they close. In the maze are terrible creatures called Grievers. Boys stung by grievers go through a painful changing. These boys claim to have seen Thomas before and they do not have a favorable opinion of him. Eight maze runners enter the giant maze every morning and hope to return in the evening. As Thomas struggles to find his place in this community and retrieve his memories, he knows one thing for sure, he must become a maze runner.
This book is the first in a series. Follow this book with The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure. The Kill Order is a prequel to the series. The Maze Runner is in production for a film.
This is the third book in the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter. (I’d Tell You I Love You, Then I’d Have to Kill You and Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy) Cammie Morgan is thrilled to be in Boston with her roommate Macey as Macey’s father announces his candidacy for vice-president of the United States. This perfect end to summer vacation is ruined when masked figures drop from a hovering helicopter and try to kidnap Macey. Cammie and Macey use all their super spy skills learned at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women (a school for young spys) to ward off the attack by the kidnappers barely escaping with their lives. Back at the Gallagher Academy, Cammie join forces with roomates, Bex and Liz, to keep Macey safe. To keep Macey safe, they must find out who was behind the kidnapping attempt and hope that the Gallagher Academy’s security will be able to protect Macey from further attempts. Join Cammie the Chameleon and her friends as they use their spy skills to solve this mystery while trying to keep the Gallagher Academy’s secrets from the outside world.
Amateur sleuth Ingrid Levin-Hill and her friend Joey Strade happen upon a body on her grandfather’s property while snowshoeing. Things get worse as Grampy is charged with murder and other family issues surface. Ingrid faces her biggest challenge yet working to clear her grandfather’s name in this third Echo Falls Mystery.