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Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lois Lane and her friend Kristen want to promote their friendship video channel at the big neighborhood barbecue and bike race but when the fireworks go missing and a new girl takes up all of Kristen's attention, Lois tries to face her challenges and still celebrate the summer."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
39 clues volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Marie Curie to Harry Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family's power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and siblings Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what really happened to their parents."--...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton reporter volume 14
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Geronimo and friends have to get to the bottom of a crown jewel of a case! Checkmate, cheese-lovers, er, we mean chess-lovers. For once, all is quiet in New Mouse City, so Geronimo Stilton, Editor-in-Chief of The Rodents Gazette can report on an incredible chess match-up. On one side, Gary Goudov, world-renowned chess champion, and on the other side, a super chess-playing computer! But after Geronimo leaves, the infamouse Gem Gang commits a string...
84) Bury the Lede
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Cub reporter Madison Jackson is young, scrappy, and hungry to prove that she deserves her coveted college internship at the premiere newspaper in town. The Boston Lede, where she fetches coffee for the night crew and dreams of her own byline. So when her police scanner mentions a brutal murder tied to a prominent Boston family, Madison races to the crime scene, looking for the scoop of the century. What she finds instead is the woman who'll change...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA.
Inspired by the gothic novel that started the vampire genre and layered with dark Chinese folklore, this queer, feminist murder mystery graphic novel is a tale of identity, obsession and fateful family secrets.
At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered...
Inspired by the gothic novel that started the vampire genre and layered with dark Chinese folklore, this queer, feminist murder mystery graphic novel is a tale of identity, obsession and fateful family secrets.
At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Headed to the island nation of Indonesia for her next caper! But just what is the mysterious lady in red after this time? Adventure awaits in this action-packed graphic novel starring the world's greatest thief."--Amazon.com.
87) Bastard
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After taking part in a historic heist -- 52 simultaneous robberies at the same time, in the same city -- May and Eugene, a young mother and her preteen son, are on the run not only from the law and double-crossed former accomplices, but also their violent past. They crisscross the United States, encountering mysterious truckers, ambitious bandits, and senior citizens living off the grid -- while flashbacks show the reader how they got into this deadly...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Hiding from Sherlock and her other brother, Mycroft, who want to place her in a boarding school following their mother's disappearance, Enola has reinvented herself as Ivy Meshle, secretary to the fictitious Dr. Ragostin, specialist in finding missing persons. Her new client? None other than Sherlock's friend, Dr. John Watson! His mission: to employ Dr. Ragostin to find the missing Enola! She decides to take the case, only so she can keep tabs on...
Author
Publisher
Legendary Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a mysterious group of anarchists abducts Mycroft, Enola investigates his disappearance in hopes of rescuing him and of getting back something precious he took from her. With the help of Lord Tewkesbury and a young boy on the streets named Shag, she uncovers the truth behind her brother's abductions and unravels a web of mystery that takes her deep into the London underground as she tries to foil the anarchists' nefarious plot!"--
Author
Series
Murder Inc volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Discover a world in which the families of organized crime never lost their stranglehold on the United States. Today is the day that Valentine Gallo becomes a made man, and it's also the day he learns the secrets behind the organization he has served since he was old enough to walk. But it is the mysterious hit woman Jagger Rose that will forever turn his life upside down. Be there when shocking secrets of this new world spill out onto the very first...
Author
Series
Secret coders volume 5
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dr. One-Zero won't stop until the whole town-no, the whole world-embraces the "true happinessy found in his poisonous potion, Green Pop. And now that he has the Turtle of Light, he's virtually unstoppable. There's one weapon that can defeat him: another Turtle of Light. Unfortunately, they can only be found in another dimension! To open a portal to this new world, Hopper, Eni, and Josh's coding skills will be put to the test.
Author
Series
Grim volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Harrow is dead... but her journey has only just begun. Discover the world of the afterlife, where Jessica has been recruited as a Reaper, tasked with ferrying countless souls to their final destination. But unlike the rest of the Reapers, Jess has no memory of what killed her and put her into this position. In order to unravel the mystery of her own demise, she'll have to solve an even bigger one - where is the actual Grim Reaper?"--Back...
Author
Series
Murder Inc volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Meet Jagger Rose. She is only 12 years old. Her father was just murdered. As family tradition would have it, she will be given an opportunity to exact revenge on her father's killer. The greatest assassin the world will ever know is born. Years ago, the five families of organized crime had such a stranglehold over the American public that the U.S. government found itself forced to give up part of the country or lose all of it. Now the unrest between...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As the tennis circuit's drug dealer, Tim's life is a party. He keeps company with famous athletes and avoids the grimy side of the cocaine trade. His only goals are to slide between the real criminals and sock away a little money to impress his estranged wife. Loose talk brings him to the attention of the 'Alexander the Great of Cocaine,' a cartel boss who sees Tim as the perfect mule. The party is over."
Author
Series
Dept. H volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Six miles below the surface of the ocean, Mia has to solve a locked-room murder mystery before the crime scene is completely flooded. As the crew tries to save the Dept. H base from destruction, some of them start to take matters into their own hands. But the bottom of the ocean is full of unknown dangers, and with time running out, rescue is almost impossible.
Series
Batgirls volume 3
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Two Batgirls are better than one! Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown have been masked vigilantes in the scary, gritty city of Gotham for a while now, so what happens when you move them to a whole new sunny neighborhood and make them roomies with Barbara Gordon? A whole lot of love, friendship, parenting...and homicide detective work?"--
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Kennedy assassination is a rat's nest of conspiracy theories: mafia involvement, the second gunman, government cover-up...but the most important one may just be the theory that the body in Oswald's grave is not actually Lee Harvey. Meet the ragtag group of 'useful idiots'--a wannabe cowboy from Wisconsin, a Buddy Holly-idolizing (former) car thief, a world-weary Civil Rights activist ready for revolution, and a failed G-Man who still acts the...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....
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