Clueless?
Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal
Selected from VOYA booklist December 2010 and December 2012
Suitable for Older Teens
Amateur Sleuths
An Appetite for Murder by Lucy Burdette
Size Twelve and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot
Died with a Bow by Grace Carroll
Shoe Done It by Grace Carroll
A Slice of Murder by Chris Cavender
The Look of Love by Mary Jane Clark
Those Who Love Night by Wessel Ebersohn
Grace Under Pressure by Julie Hyzy
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely
Sprinkle with Murder by Jen McKinlay
The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks
Poison Flower by Thomas Perry
Half-Price Homicide: A Dead-End Job Mystery by Elaine Viets
Historicals
City of Silver by Annamaria Alfieri
Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen
Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody
Murder on the Cliffs by Joanna Challis
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
A Simple Murder by Eleanor Kuhn
Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Ella MacNeal
The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd
Grace Hammer: A novel of the Victorian Underworld by Sara Stockbridge
An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
The Anatomy of Death by Felicity Young
Police Procedurals
The Rope by Nevada Barr
Evidence of Murder by Lisa Black
Force of Nature by C.J. Box
Rude Awakening by Susan Rogers Cooper
Redemption by Kate Flora
Far Cry by John Harvey
Private Investigators
Father's Day by Keith Gilman
V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
The Taking of Libbie, SD by David Housewright
Breakdown by Sara Paretsky
Suspense and Thrillers
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
The Columbus Affair by Steve Berry
Black Rain by Graham Brown
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Money to Burn by James Grippando
The Lost Goddess by Tom Knox
The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen
The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds
The Vault by Boyd Morrison
Runner by Thomas Perry
Gideon's Corpse by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Fever Dream by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The 500 by Matthew Quirk
Genre Blends
It Takes a Witch by Heather Blake
Tomb With a View by Casey Daniels
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford
Taken by Benedict Jacka
Death in Show by Judi McCoy
Children of Paranoia by Trevor Shane
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James