Joan Lowery Nixon

A teenage girl is kidnapped, but when freed, she is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy grandmother.

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore

Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.

The Other Side of Dark

When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

A Family Apart

Lisa and her three friends find themselves unwilling players in a cat-and-mouse game with a murderous magician whose identity and motivation baffle them. Reprint.

A Deadly Game of Magic

When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.

The Haunting

Cary finds her life in danger when she uncovers a plot to sabotage her father's political campaign for governor of Texas.

A Candidate for Murder

Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares.

Nightmare

When Jennifer Lee Wilcox returns home from the beach, she finds that Stella Trax, her best friend's mother, has just been murdered. The police think Stella's daughter Bobbie did it. Jennifer sets out to prove Bobbie's innocence, but as she uncovers clues, she realizes she's only leading herself to danger! "An exciting, fast-moving thriller."--Voya. California Young Reader Medal.

The Stalker

After Angie's brother is struck in a hit-and-run accident that puts him into a coma, she discovers that the people she questions about the accident--including her own parents--seem oddly unconcerned.

The Ghosts of Now

When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.

The Name of the Game was Murder

The seance started as a game, but it led to murder and terror for the people of a small east Texas community.

The Seance

Secret, Silent Screams (Laurel-leaf Suspense)

Chris and Amy doubt Amos when he tells them he lived through a terrible night on Haunted Island. Now he wants them to go and set the ghosts to rest.

Haunted Island

Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.

Nobody's There

In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.

A Place to Belong

Sixteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth's summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more exciting than she bargained for when a series of mysterious events culminate in murder.

The Dark and Deadly Pool

Seventeen-year-old Dina becomes involved in a mystery and may have made herself the target of a dangerous killer by befriending nine-year-old Julie.

The Specter

When two new guys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if she can trust them.

Don't Scream

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Whispers from the Dead from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Only Sarah senses the horror. The minute she steps through the doorway of her family’s new home, Sarah feels a smothering cold mist, and hears the echo of a scream and a heartbreaking whisper in Spanish, “Help me!” Sarah feels compelled to find out who is trying to reach her. But can she uncover the mysteries of the past before terror strikes again? “A master at creating compelling suspense novels, Nixon has written yet another carefully plotted, subtly terrifying thriller.” –Publishers Weekly

Whispers from the Dead

For use in schools and libraries only. Cousins Debbie and Jeff stumble across something they were not meant to see when a blizzard strands them in a mysterious old house with a hidden mummy and Anubis, a strange creature that once guarded the pharaoh's tomb.

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