The Christopher Killer
10 best books like The Christopher Killer (Alane Ferguson): Reality Check, Something Rotten, Aftershock, What Happened to Cass McBride?, Body Bags, Double Helix, Discovering, Snatched, Acceleration, Fake ID
| Author | Peter Abrahams |
| ISBN | 0061227668 |
QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest--and smartest--girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country,...
| Author | Alan Gratz |
| ISBN | 0803732163 |
Something is rotten in Denmark, Tennessee, and it is not just the polluted Copenhagen River. Hamilton Prince's father has been murdered, according to a hidden video message. Horatio Wilkes, Hamilton's best friend, is visiting the Prince mansion when the video turns up. The guys need to find the killer...
| Author | Kelly Easton |
| ISBN | 1416900527 |
TORMENT: EXTREME PAIN OR ANGUISH OF BODY OR MINDSeventeen-year-old Adam is tormented. His parents have just been killed in a car crash in Idaho, and he has survived. In a speechless state of shock, Adam begins walking home, back to Rhode Island. But he can't think in a straight line: The past and present...
| Author | Gail Giles |
| ISBN | 0316166391 |
Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Drugs Cass. Kidnaps her. Puts her in a box-underground. He buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of words. She uses fear as...
| Author | Christopher Golden |
| ISBN | 0671034928 |
When my husband's sci-fi/fantasy book club chose Body Bags (which is neither sci-fi nor fantasy), I wanted to read it for myself. This book is pretty awful. I've read my share of crime/thriller/mystery novels, and I have low standards for character development, writing style, and dialogue when it...
10 December 2008 update added at the end.
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin is young adult mystery which my daughter handed me recently. The main character, Eli Samuels, a recent high school graduate, is at a crossroads in his life in more ways than one. His mother is completely debilitated and dying...
| Author | Wendy Corsi Staub |
| ISBN | 0802797865 |
After finally learning who was behind her mother’s death, Calla still doesn’t understand why it happened. Somewhere out there, someone seems to share the powerful psychic abilities that allow Calla to see not only into the past, but to the Other Side—someone who apparently doesn’t want...
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| ISBN | 0399243771 |
Roni Delicata is the pushy crime reporter for the school newspaper The Bloodwater Pump. Brian Bain is a quiet science geek who has a tendency to blow things up. Ordinarily, they would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn’t an ordinary day: their snobby classmate Alicia Camden has been snatched.Soon...
| Author | Graham McNamee |
| ISBN | 0440238366 |
It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will...
| Author | Walter Sorrells |
| ISBN | 0525475141 |
Chastity and her mom have always been on the run from something, but she never knew what until her mom disappears after chastity shows her a hidden part of herself. She leaves chastity not knowing who she is or what has happened. The next few days are miserable for chastity but her friend takes her in and...
| Author | Charlie Price |
| ISBN | 1596431148 |
Murray, a loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery, hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. But who believes him? He's a loser. Can he even believe in himself? Also comes Pearl, the daughter of the cemetery caretaker, who...
| Author | David Klass |
| ISBN | 0374399506 |
A taut psychological thriller for teens
Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy’s sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison....
| Author | Michael Simmons |
| ISBN | 1595140751 |
Not too shabby. It definitely was a welcome diversion from all of the supernatural/romance/football books that currently glut the young adult genre. Evan MacAlister is rich, but not spoiled--at least from his point of view--and this is his main complaint. As a way of retaliating against his father's...
| Author | Kathryn Reiss |
| ISBN | 0152054790 |
The last place fifteen-year-old Juliana wants to be is halfway around the world in Blackthorn, England, an idyllic seaside artists' colony her mother has dragged her off to while her parents weather a trial separation.
Juliana misses her father terribly and doesn't understand why her mother...
| Author | Bennett Madison |
| ISBN | 1595141049 |
Lulu Dark is the anti-Nancy—a chic, tough-talking city girl who never meant to get involved in a mystery.
But when her favorite purse is stolen during a Many Handsomes concert, Lulu knows she has to get it back. After all, it was one of a kind—and the lead singer's phone number was stashed...
| Author | John C. Ford |
| ISBN | 0670010960 |
Christopher just needed a job to kill time the summer after high school graduation. He didn't expect it to be in the morgue. Or that he would accidentally discover a murder cover-up. Or that his discovery would lead him to a full-blown investigation involving bribery, kidnappings, more murders......
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440419883 |
Jenny Jakes and her mother, a famous mystery writer, travel to San Antonio to see their cousin, Arnold Harmony, who's made his fortune in the chocolate business. Harmony, an eccentric millionaire, wants his will read publicly before he dies; since everyone wants a piece of the pie, this announcement...
| Author | Malcolm Rose |
| ISBN | 0753459817 |
Luke Harding's third thrilling case involves a series of mysterious murders in which the victims seem to have only one thing in common: they are all named Emily Wonder. In the bitter cold of winter, Luke and Malc struggle to investigate three crime scenes lacking in physical evidence. When a young homeless...
