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For fans of YA mysteries, a past murder spree, and investigative podcasts!

Pryce Cummings wants to be a journalist, and now he has his first investigation: there’s new evidence that questions the police investigation into the murder of four high school football players five years ago. So, he convinces the student media director at his college to let him follow the lead as a new podcast!

For fans of cozy culinary mysteries, a sprinkle of magic, and high school reunions!

Felicity Jin works in her family’s bakery and infuses cookies with a little dash of magic. After delivering her treats to Pixie Inn, where a high school get-together is taking place, the woman in charge is found dead. And Felicity’s cookies may be to blame.

For fans of domestic mysteries set in New Zealand!

Tavish, who recently moved from LA to New Zealand with his wife, comes home to find it on fire. The survivors are his wife and sister-in-law, but they’re in comas and can’t say what happened. With a past of previous dead lovers, Tavish becomes the focus of the investigation.

For fans of twisty whodunnit thrillers with a local celebrity victim!

Faith Richards is a popular TV meteorologist who is found murdered after her shift. While she’s beloved by fans, her coworkers don’t feel the same, and she has a past of ex-friends. Told in past and present storylines, by multiple points of view, The Fair Weather Friend explores the question Who would want a popular meteorologist dead?

For fans of YA thrillers, true crime podcasts, and assuming someone else’s identity!

In the police station, a 16-year-old runaway spots an age-progressed image of a decades-long missing child that he thinks he looks enough like to pass as. Which is what he decides to do, rather than go back to his parents’ house or jail. Once in his new home, he pretends to be the newly found Nathaniel Beaumont, but his teen neighbor immediately knows he’s not Nate. Instead of ratting him out, they decide to join together and find out what really happened to Nate.

For fans of twisty thrillers!

Camille Bayliss wants out of her marriage, but her prenup means she needs proof that her husband Ben has done something wrong. And that’s hard to come by since Ben is always tracking her. Enter Aubrey Price, a woman convinced that the wrong man is in prison for the drunk-driving deaths of her parents. The women decide to swap identities for half a day, but things take a wrong turn when Ben is murdered, and only one of them has an alibi.

For fans of children’s graphic novels!

Willa has a hard time socializing and wants to grow up to be a mail carrier and writer. But her dream is threatened when she’s accused of being Two Gum Tilly, the mail thief. Enter a group of runaway girls, the Gumshoe Gang, who are on the case of capturing Two Gum Tilly. While she tries to clear her name and catch the real bandit, maybe Willa will finally feel like she belongs in a group.

For fans of a friend going “undercover” in search of their missing best friend!

Isla and Eden ran away from a group home as teenagers, but only Isla made it to LA. Now, more than a decade later, Isla is determined to find Eden—or what happened to her. That’s why she infiltrates a wealthy family’s home in Virginia, the last place Eden was known to be…

For fans of country music and missing person cases!

Dahlia “Doll” Devine is trying to make it as a country singer in Chicago, but she keeps getting knocked down. After her boyfriend splits and she’s once again scrambling, the mom she hasn’t seen in 20 years shows up, and Doll discovers she has a sister—one she’ll have to get to know after her ex is found dead and her mom goes missing.

For fans of struggling actresses and cat-and-mouse thrillers!

Dimple Kapoor accidentally killed Irene Singh, her rival, which has opened the door for Kapoor to finally become the leading actress. Except there was one witness to the crime, and they caught it on video. And Singh’s parents have hired a PI. A PI who not only starts a game of cat-and-mouse with Kapoor, but who is also drawn to Kapoor.

For fans of dark academia YA!

Eva and her best friend George should be enjoying the beginning of academic life at Beecham College in Oxford, but George is found dead during interview week. Now she has to find out the truth about what happened to him, all while everything she does is analyzed on an anonymous gossiping forum.