Reviews by Category: Mystery

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

Cassie, the main character in The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Bares, is an expert at reading

people. Cassie doesn’t expect this knack for understanding others to get her much until she’s

recruited to join a group of other teenagers investigating FBI cold cases. Cassie, the newest

“Natural”, lives with 4 other teens with gifts like hers. The Naturals are nothing like they seem,

and Cassie’s mentors aren’t average agents either. When a new killer strikes, Cassie and the

The Inheritance Games, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, starts with the death of Tobias Hawthorne, a

billionaire who leaves his entire fortune to a random girl named Avery Grambs. Avery has never

met Tobias but suddenly has to solve the riddles in his house in order to receive her inheritance.

She also has to deal with the Hawthorne family, who was snubbed in the will and want their

money back. This family includes the four Hawthorne sons, who were also given puzzles to

Cassie Hobbes is a 17 year old girl who’s living with her dad’s relatives. Her mom was

brutally murdered 5 years prior and the body was never found. Cassie grows up with that

trauma and never moves on from it. So when special agent Tanner Briggs wants to recruit her

for a special program called ‘The Naturals,’ Cassie accepts in hopes of finding her mother’s

killer. However, things mix up when Cassie and her new friends at ‘The Naturals’ program find