The Black Heart Crypt

6 best books like The Black Heart Crypt (Chris Grabenstein): Tales of the City, The Old Willis Place, Party Princess, Closed for the Season, Mark of the Plague, The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story

Tales of the City

Author	Armistead Maupin
ISBN	0552998761

Tales of the City is not great literature. That's not what Maupin's aiming for. In what is the first and best book in a six-part series constructed from a serial column in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City is smart, guilty entertainment at its best. It's a soap opera. But like, say, Six Feet...

The Old Willis Place

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	0618430180

Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They aren’t allowed to leave the property or show themselves to anyone. But when a new caretaker comes to live there with his young daughter,...

Party Princess

Author	Meg Cabot
ISBN	0060724552

Princess just want to have fun . . . And Mia does too, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. But Grandmere's got a wacky scheme to raise the money, catapult Mia to theatrical fame, and link her romantically with an eligible teen bachelor who's not her boyfriend....

Closed for the Season

Author

Mary Downing Hahn

A contemporary thriller by the bestselling author of The Old Willis Place.

Two 13-year-old boys, Arthur and Logan, set out to solve the mystery of a murder that took place some years ago in the old house Logan's family has just moved into. The boys' quest takes them to the highest and lowest levels...

Mark of the Plague

Author	Kevin Sands
ISBN	1481446746

Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this follow-up to the Indie Next pick The Blackthorn Key, which was called a “spectacular debut” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.

The Black Death has returned to London, spreading disease and...

The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story

Author	Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN	1328850927

Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses the boundary between past and present.

A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's...