Reviews by Category: Mystery

Addy, Brownyn, Cooper, Nate and Simon all walk into detention and only four of them walk out.

Simon is left on the floor dead with the life sucked out of him and the four that are left are

mentally scarred. A big coincidence right?, maybe even too big. All four of our main characters

have very different lives; Brownyn Rojas is a straight A student who is on her way to Yale,

Beautiful homecoming princess Addy Prentiss seems to have an ideal life, Baseball star Cooper

Four girls are known for being liars at their boarding school. They often played a game

called the Lying Game where the objective is to tell lies without getting caught. When they get a

text from a friend within the group, the girls are reunited when those lies come back to haunt

them in their adult life. is book kept me on the edge of my seat until the end. ere were so

many plot twists that let me questioning everything I originally thought. Make sure you have a

Almost-thirteen year old Lemony Snicket just graduated from his training at a secret

organization, and for his apprenticeship, planned to steal an artifact from a museum

with his trusted associate. However, things didn't go as planned, and instead he was

taken to a fading town called Stain’d-by-the-Sea, where he and his incompetent

chaperone, S. Theodora Markson, have to solve a mystery regarding an allegedly stolen

statue. The problem? The statue may not have been stolen to begin with. Moxie

Avery Kylie Grambs has only months left in the Hawthorne house until she becomes a

billionaire. It is close to her 18th birthday and she still has puzzles to solve that Tobias

Hawthorne left her when he passed. Each day Avery and the Hawthorne grandsons

are finding more and more clues to discover the truth. Avery and Jameson

Hawthorne are also becoming much more than friends. Everything is going fine until

Eve, Toby Hawthorne’s daughter, shows up. Is she here to help or sabotage?

Summary:

Pippa Fitz-Amobi is an ambitious senior at Fairview High School who is tasked with an

individualized project that every senior at their school has to complete. Pippa, being the curious

student that she is, chooses to solve the mystery behind the murder of Andie Bell, a student who

previously attended Fairview and was rumored to have been murdered by her ex-boyfriend Sal

Singh. For Pippa, what initially began as a project to take another look at the closed case has now

The Hawthorne Legacy is a young adult mystery novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. It is the second

novel in The Inheritance Games series. Once again it follows Avery as she continues to search

for clues about Tobias Hawthorne and why he left her his fortune. As danger grows, Avery must

decipher the clues about her growing connection to the Hawthorne family.

The Naturals is a young adult mystery novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. It is the first novel in The

Naturals series. It follows Cassie, a teenager with an unique ability to read people. As a result of

this gift, she is placed in a program by the FBI to use her and teenagers with talents like hers to

solve cold cases. After a serial killer strikes, Cassie and her fellow Naturals are caught in a

dangerous game of life and death and must use their abilities to survive.

The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket, is a mystery novel and the fifth book in the series, A

Series of Unfortunate Events.

Avery Kylie Grambs is a normal 17 year old girl. She doesn’t exactly have money, but all

she wants is to have a good normal life with a normal job and good pay. But when she inherits a

billion dollar inheritance from philanthropist Tobias Hawthorne who has died recently, her whole

life turns around. More people start targeting her death, her love life suddenly goes up, and

people she didn’t even know start admiring her. Avery believes there’s a reason for her

The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides, takes place six years after the death of Gabriel

Berenson. His wife, Alicia was convicted of the crime and institutionalized. Since her husband’s

death, Alicia has been entirely silent, and only through her diary do we get to see her side of

events. Theo Faber, a psychotherapist, has become obsessed with her case and goes to the

Grove, the institution where Alicia lives, to try to get her to talk and reveal her secrets. This