The Killer's Cousin
10 best books like The Killer's Cousin (Nancy Werlin): The Body of Christopher Creed, When Jeff Comes Home, Invisible, Reality Check, Mistik Lake, The Death of Jayson Porter, Rat Life, Counterfeit Son, Target, Freeze Frame
| Author | Carol Plum-Ucci |
| ISBN | 0786816414 |
Let's try this your way.
This is a book about a boy who goes missing after writing an ambiguous e-mail that could be either a suicide letter or a runaway note.
There are many topics of note, including bullying, overbearing parenting, personality disorders, class wars (small-scale),...
| Author | Catherine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0698119150 |
The strongest parts of this book describe the confusing emotions that Jeff feels after he returns to his family: anger, guilt, confusion, and embarrassment. Readers will sympathize with Jeff's admittance that he submitted to some of his captor's attentions willingly in order to get food and the complicated...
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| ISBN | 0689869037 |
You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend....I guess you could say that I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed. Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak -- he gets beat up after school and the girl of his dreams calls...
| 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 | Martha Brooks |
| ISBN | 0374349851 |
Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn't her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally's tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her life that no one can break. Odella tries to hold her...
| Author | Jaime Adoff |
| ISBN | 1423106911 |
Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately white school, while struggling to maintain even...
| Author | Tedd Arnold |
| ISBN | 0803730209 |
The dead body found in the Chemanga River has nothing to do with Todd. He's been busy making beds at the family motel and writing alien stories to entertain his friends. Sure, a murder is big news, but what would "really" interest him? A paying job and a story line free of UFOs and poop jokes. And then he meets...
| Author | Elaine Marie Alphin |
| ISBN | 0142301477 |
Cameron Miller is the son of a murderer. All he has ever known is the stench of the locked cellar, where he can hear the blows and cries and his father's torrent of terror and abuse. Then a miracle happens: his father is killed in a police shootout. In the aftermath, Cameron grabs his one chance for a normal...
| Author | Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson |
| ISBN | 0761327908 |
Why had the men chosen him? Savagely violated by two strangers, sixteen-year-old Grady West retreats into silence. Some hells just can't be shared. Searing and powerful, Target shows that people can go through unspeakable things and emerge whole-- and sometimes your friends can save you. Another...
| Author | Heidi Ayarbe |
| ISBN | 0061351733 |
No matter how many times Kyle rewrites the scene, he can't get it right. He tries it in the style of Hitchcock, Tarantino, Eastwood, all of his favorite directors—but regardless of the style, he can't remember what happened that day in the shed. The day Jason died. And until he can, there is one question...
| 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 | Sean Olin |
| ISBN | 0689877781 |
Britney is the girl everyone loves to hate.
Ever since Britney transformed herself from freak-and-geek to the most popular girl at school, her life has been touched by tragedy. First it was her mom, who drowned on a family rafting trip. Then her hockey-star boyfriend, Ricky, was killed in a hit-and-run....
| 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 | Kate Morgenroth |
| ISBN | 1416912673 |
When fifteen-year-old Jude's father is brutally murdered, Jude is a witness. But to save his own life, he can't tell the police what he knows. Still, Jude is determined to clear his name and win the approval of his mother -- the district attorney he has not seen since he was an infant. At the urging of his...
| Author | Louise Plummer |
| ISBN | 0385730926 |
MIRA KENT IS nearing her 16th birthday and wants to know more about a father she doesn't remember. Her mother tells her she has all his good qualities, but isn't specific. With nothing but a photo of her father, Mira wants more. She writes him imaginary notes:
Daddy, darling, where are you? I need...
| Author | Terry Trueman |
| ISBN | 0064473767 |
In a busy coffee shop, a robbery goes wrong. Two gunmen hold seven hostages, including teenager Zach Wahhsted. What nobody realizes at first is that Zach is anything but ordinary and his troubled mind is more dangerous than any weapon. Terry Trueman has created a compelling character with the same shocking...
| Author | Susan Juby |
| ISBN | 0060765259 |
Sunglasses. Check.
Binoculars. Check.
Notepad.
Check.
Mom's pink bike.
Check. Check?
Meet Sherman Mack. Short. Nerdy. Amateur P.I. and prepared to do anything for Dini Trioli.
Nobody knows who began it or when it became a tradition, but every girl at Harewood...
| Author | Doug MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0143565303 |
'Wouldn't it be funny if they were real?'
'Shiny red men?'
'What if I were the sane one and everyone else was mad?'
One night, the shiny guys visit fifteen-year-old Colin Lapsley. They don't speak, but Colin can read their thoughts. They want him to pay for the terrible thing that he has...
| Author | Nicola Morgan |
| ISBN | 0763634727 |
"The novel gallops along at a cracking pace, packed full of plot twisters." — THE HERALD (UK)
"I felt cold metal on the side of my skull before I heard the voice. I knew at once what it was. A pistol. Resting on the bone just behind my ear. The favorite place for murderers, robbers, highwaymen —...
| Author | Gail Giles |
| ISBN | 0689858000 |
"Simon Glass was easy to hate....I guess, really we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him."
Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the high school social ladder. Everyone picks on him -- until Rob Haynes shows up....
The Interrogation of Gabriel James
| Author | Charlie Price |
| ISBN | 0374335451 |
Eyewitness to two killings, fourteen-year-old Gabriel James relates the shocking story behind the murders in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks. Step by step, this Montana teenager traces his discovery of a link between a troubled classmate's disturbing home life...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440419875 |
A game of private detective turns deadly for an unlikely sleuth combo.
How did Abbie Thompson end up a sidekick to Edna Merkel, Senior Citizen Pseudo-Sleuth? It all started when Abbie was so furious at her father for breaking up their family that she acted without thinking and was arrested for malicious...
| Author | Margot McDonnell |
| ISBN | 0385735596 |
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ANNE ALWAYS thought her mother was kind of quirky. In fact, her mom’s taste in 70s-esque furniture and mysterious frequent business trips were just the tip of the quirky iceberg. When her
mom doesn’t come home on time from one of her long jaunts, Anne isn’t too surprised....
