Murder Mysteries for Teens

One of my new buddies LEO expressed an interest in good murder mysteries for teens. I told her the one I knew, Something Rotten by Alan Gratz.

Then I went to the wonderful teachers and librarians and editors and authors on the Rutgers Child-Lit list and asked if they had any recommendations for contemporary murder tales. Here's what they suggested:


The Echo Falls Mysteries by Peter Abraham
Acceleration by Graham McNamee
Blackthorn winter by Kathryn Reiss
The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery by Alane Ferguson
The Angel of Death : a forensic mystery by Alane Ferguson
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin

Also recommended were books by Walter Sorrells.


I'll add one more group of books. I *love* Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart series. These are historical, not contemporary--adore these books. So tense, so much fun to try to figure out the possibilities. And the bad guys and things they do--truly scary and evil. Sally is an amazing heroine.

Good reading, everyone!