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Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along. But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for. Margot’s mother left for a reason.

Dulce Castillo besucht eine Schule mit besonderem Schwerpunkt: An der J. Everett High werden die Schüler zu herausragenden Kriminologen ausgebildet. Jedes Jahr wird dort ein Wettbewerb veranstaltet: Anhand von vorbereiteten Autopsieberichten, Zeugenaussagen und Beweisen sollen die Schüler einen inszenierten Mord aufklären. Dulce ist fest entschlossen, den Preis dieses Jahr zu gewinnen - zusammen mit ihrer besten Freundin Emi und dem neuen Mitschüler Zane. Doch dann passiert das Unfassbare: Die Leiche ist echt - einer ihrer Mitschüler wurde vergiftet.

Eigentlich will Izzy Morales bloß mit ihren Freunden den Schulabschluss feiern. Dafür hat ihre beste Freundin Kassidy sie alle in ein Herrenhaus auf einer abgelegenen Insel eingeladen. Am Anfang genießen sie tatsächlich einige glamouröse Tage - bis Kassidys Freund plötzlich tot aufgefunden wird. Kurz nachdem die Polizei auf der Insel eintrifft, bricht ein schlimmer Sturm los. Nun sitzen sie alle auf Ashwood Manor fest. Und schon bald stellt sich heraus: Jeder von ihnen hätte ein Motiv für den Mord gehabt. Doch Izzy ist diejenige, die das Messer mit auf die Insel gebracht hat.

This layered and compelling cozy mystery is all about found family, first love, and one town’s tragedies, perfect for fans of Melina Marchetta, Kristin Dwyer, and Nina LaCour. Brodie McKellon didn’t leave town in handcuffs; not exactly. But all the same, in only one night, she lost her best...

When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, 16-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it. Richly atmospheric, this daring mystery mines the secrets of a tightly knit Southern community and examines the strength of will it takes to go against everyone you know in the name of justice.

Roxie Clark has seen more dead bodies than your average seventeen-year-old. As a member of the Clark family, most of her ancestors have met tragic ends, including her own mother. Instead of fearing the curse, however, Roxie has combined her flair for performance and her gruesome family history into a successful ghost tour. But her tour never covers the most recent body she's seen—her sister Skylar's boyfriend, Colin Riley, found murdered in a cornfield. A year after the murder, Roxie's desperate to help Skylar start to heal. Instead, Skylar becomes fixated on finding the killer.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a captivating historical thriller about a teenage girl desperate to escape the secrets of her past in 1950s New Orleans. “A satisfying novel, bringing to life the midcentury French...

Everyone knows Bettina’s father was the one who murdered her mother a decade ago. It’s the subject of podcasts, murder tours, and even a highly anticipated docuseries. But after growing up grappling with what that means, a string of copycat murders forces Bett to answer a harder question: What if he didn’t? Old-money Bett must team up with the only person willing to investigate alongside her: bookish goth girl Eugenia, the mortician’s daughter, who everyone says puts the makeup on corpses. Can this “true crime princess” unmask a murderer who’s much closer to home than she ever imagined?

One day, fifteen-year-old Carmina Knight’s life was perfect, and the next, she’d lost everything. Her family, her home, almost everything that she knew. Alone on the streets, she can’t trust anyone, but she also can’t make it alone.

The juniors at Paloma High School all have their secrets, whether it's the thespian who hides her trust issues onstage, the closeted pansexual who cares only about his drug-dealing profits, or the neurotic genius who's planted the seed of a school scandal. But it's Juniper Kipling who has the furthest to fall. No one would argue that Juniper - obedient daughter, salutatorian, natural beauty, and loyal friend - is anything but perfect.

Nobody in 16-year-old Beckett’s life seems to be telling the whole story. Her boyfriend Jake keeps hiding texts, which could mean he’s cheating on her. Her father lied about losing his job and so much more before his shocking death. And everyone in school seems to be whispering about her and her family behind her back. But none of that compares to the day Beckett finds the body of a newborn baby in a gym bag - Jake’s gym bag - on the floor of her high school locker room.