A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is a thrilling YA mystery about a murder that no one seems to care about - except the main character, Pippa, of course. Every senior at her high school is meant to do a Capstone Project, a big research endeavor that concludes their high school experience. Pippa, always the overachieving journalist, chooses to do hers on the “case-closed” murder that occurred five years ago.
Taken by Edward Bloor is a mystery/fantasy novel that explores the idea of what the future will be like. It's the year 2030 and kidnapping is one of the most lucrative industries. Charity Meyers, a daughter of a rich family, the prime target for kidnapping, was taken from her family. Following standard procedure, she keeps calm and waits for her parents to pay the ransom. When things don’t go as planned, Charity finds herself in the center of a larger scheme.
The Hawthorne Legacy is an interesting and suspenseful mystery novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This book is about a girl named Avery and she inherits billions of dollars from the late Tobias Hawthorne. The story takes off where the first book left off, The Inheritance Games, where Avery and the four Hawthorne brothers found a secret passageway that led to a box with letters for all of them.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson is about a girl named Pippa who decides to reopen a closed local murder case for her senior capstone project and tries to find the “real” killer. She quickly becomes engulfed in her investigation and is met with lots of people that don’t want her digging up the past.
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is about a girl, Avery Grambs, who inherits the majority of one of the richest men in Texas’s assets, Tobias Hawthrone. The catch: she has no idea who Mr. Hawthorne was, and this sparks her journey to find out how she is connected to him. One requirement for Avery in his will is to live with his existing family which includes his four teenage grandsons, and this turns her life upside down.
The new girl Rachel is ready for a new beginning at Manchester Prep. But after a misconception with the popular girl in which she is blamed for a prank, she finds herself outcasted. Knowing full well she isn’t the one who orchestrated the prank she hunts down the guy she saw and stumbles upon a group of kids with a love for horror and an equal love for scaring others. Before she knows it, she finds herself wrapped up in tricks meant to terrify the popular kids. Eventually though, the pranks get too intense, and they stop going as planned.
Crystal Donovan is a teen girl who finds herself drawn into a dangerous game with her sister as the price for failure. She’s forced to complete seemingly random tasks and is told her sister will die if she doesn’t. At first it seems random, until she realizes each task is meant to kill one of her friends. In the midst of the chaos this twisted scheme is causing she fights to figure out if this is all over a game tournament, or something deeper from her past.
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is a mystery book filled with twists and suspense. Cassie just knows people. Ever since she was young, she could make scarily accurate assumptions about people. One day while she was working, a young man walked in and she couldn’t figure him out no matter how long she stared. When he left, he left a business card from the FBI. She didn’t know it at the time, but that one call would throw her whole life upside down.
The Inheritance Games is an exotic and thrilling mystery novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This book is about an ordinary girl named Avery, she gets invited to the will reading of the late Tobias Hawthorne, the 9th richest man on Earth. There she finds that she inherits billions of dollars. Avery and the four grandsons of Tobias Hawthorne solve riddles and puzzles to figure out why Tobias Hawthorne left his money to Avery.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson is a realistic fiction book about Pippa Fitz-Amobi, a young girl writing her senior project. She decides to write her project about a local murder that took place 5 years ago, using her senior project as an excuse to do her own investigation. Her goal is to prove the innocence of Sal, the alleged killer who was also found dead, and find out who really killed Andie, Sal’s girlfriend.
