Entering Grade 8

MYSTERY

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Harlem Shuffle
​by Colson Whitehead
To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He's also a slightly crooked thief who gets in on a bad deal and is thrust into the underworld of Harlem crime. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? ​
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
​A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. This classic detective novel has it all.
One of us is Lying (series)
by Karen M. McManus
Five students enter detention, and all have been posted about on the anonymous school chat board by Simon. By the end of detention, Simon is dead, and it wasn’t an accident. Which of the four had enough to lose to commit a murder and will they strike again?
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia deLuce Mystery (series)
by Allan Bradley
For Agatha Christie lovers: Flavia de Luce goes outside early one morning to find a stranger dying in their cucumber garden. Normal 11 year old girls would have screamed and fled the scene, but Flavia is intrigued and when her father is arrested for the crime, is soon trying to untangle the knots surrounding the stranger, a rare stamp, her father's old schoolmaster, and the dead man in the garden.
Truly Devious (series)
​ by Maureen Johnson
Stevie Bell begs to go away to Ellingham Academy, an elite boarding school in remote Vermont where 80 years earlier a heinous crime was committed. When a copycat murderer strikes, Stevie tries to solve the mystery.
Murder on the Orient Express
​by Agatha Christie
A wealthy man is found murdered in his luxury train car, the doors and windows locked from the inside: who could have killed him?
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