Cryptic Conundrums and Murderous Mysteries

When her step-grandmother dies during a family vacation, fourteen-year-old, mystery-loving Ruth gets her dream chance to solve a real-life murder–only to discover that every relative might be a suspect.

Suddenly an outcast from her popular squad after her father loses his job, Casey and a new group of friends search for her town’s rumored sunken treasure to save her family and her future, unwittingly bringing a dangerous truth to the surface.

Seven players in the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by a billionaire to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, are pushed to their limits–physically, mentally and emotionally–and it soon becomes clear that not everyone is playing by the rules.

Mallory Fontaine is hired by the handsome, wealthy Armand to rid his ancestral home of a ghost, but when murder comes again, she finds herself at the center of the investigation.

Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen plays a deadly game to keep her step family from stealing her wealthy (but dysfunctional) family’s fortune.

When amateur teen detective Vivian Vance takes on a case in the Pillars, a downtrodden community beneath the highway, she stumbles on a dark secret about her town’s history and finds herself face-to-face with the flesh-takers, monsters who snatch unruly kids off the street.

After Cooper King is pressured by friend Jason to go on a looting spree during a local march, someone is shot dead, and after Jason is taken into custody, Cooper teams up with his sister to uncover the real murderer.

At the Dr. James Everett School of Criminology, a murder mystery game goes wrong when the student playing the victim is actually murdered, and soon, junior Dulce Castillo sets out to find the culprit.

Keira lands a prestigious summer internship at a museum built atop a former WWII prisoner of war camp, but her summer is disrupted by two suspicious deaths, which might be connected to her research on the unsolved murder of a German POW in 1945 amid a seemingly impossible escape attempt.