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Ok, I've looked for a while for this book and am considering giving up at this point. I remember getting it for free with my Kobo reader like 5-8 years ago?
The main things I can remember are:

It's about 2 detectives, one is a blonde female and one is male. One of them is new- I have no idea which

It's about a serial killer who has been killing girls and leaving like a torso or a head or something behind

We see a few chapters intermittently from the killers perspective and he is shown as being a taxi driver

One of the victims is a disabled girl who was last seen in a supermarket

The killer has been collecting parts of girls to make human dolls, both detectives have been picked up by him at one point where he talks about his dolls

The detectives both like to sit at the front of the taxi ( no idea why this is relevant )

ma_ya_12

Don't remember much but it was about a girl who was a spy/secret agent and she had recently moved to a new neighbourhood maybe?

One thing I remember in particular was her mum was a widower, and she recently started started seeing this guy that the main character didn't like, and one time they were in the car together and he played Stevie Wonder's 'Isn't She Lovely', and she thought it was the dude trying to be romantic with her mother but it turns out the guy was her Dad, and he was playing the song for her. He had faked his death to keep his family safe because he was also a spy/secret agent (I think).

Other than that, my memory is pretty spotty. I think she carried out like one main mission during the book, she was trying to solve a mystery of some sort. There was no magic, so it's not a fantasy book, but she did have gadgets. It may have also been part of a series, I think I was wanting to read the sequel but never got around to it.

Read while I was still in school I think, 7 to 12 years ago, but I found it in the school library and I don't have access to that database unfortunately :/

Any tips would be great! Thanks for reading :)

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elea_tsubaki

Hi!
I'm looking for a book that I cant recall the name or title of, but what I do remember is that it centers around a young girl who witnessed something and then is hit by a car. She ends up breaking her leg in the accident but the rest of the boom is about how the man who hit her, the one who's crime she witnessed is trying to find her. It's a young adult/juviniele fiction book that is probably 90s to early 2000s. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

full_metal_ox

(Crossposted to

whatwasthatbook.)

I recall having read this one in the Seventies, most likely as part of an Alfred Hitchcock anthology. The setting is somewhere in the Amazon region; a native girl performs a dance that her culture uses as a passionate declaration of true love and eternal fidelity, and some boorish Yankee tourist (I don't remember whether he was the intended recipient) insults her by flinging silver dollars at her feet--as if she were doing no more than busking.

We later learn that a visiting American has been staked out and devoured alive by army ants; turns out that he wasn't the offender, but he happened to pay his bar tab in American silver dollars...

(This story made such an impression that--something like four decades later--I always ask street performers, "Are you accepting donations?" if there isn't a hat or similar receptacle in evidence.)

ETA:

mildred_of_midgard has ID'd the story as "Pieces of Silver" by Brett Halliday, from Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night(1961), ed. Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Arthur (reprinted by permission of the author; copyright, 1938, by David Dresser.)

mewmew13

Book #1
In 3rd grade like 2002-2003 I read a novel that was about a boy who got caught in a wildfire. He ran towards a creek to escape but the creek was full of fish that had "boiled" to death, so he got out of there. Next he ran to a cave but came to the conclusion that he would cook as if he were in an oven and ditched that idea too.
I cant remember anything else about it except that teenagers accidentally started the fire with matches.

Book #2
I read this book in 5th grade. Everyone believes it's "the house with a clock in its walls" but I'm pretty certain it's not!
It's about a boy who goes to his uncle or grandfathers mansion type thing. Everything on the property is overgrown. The boy finds a secret passage in the house with stairs that go on forever. At the base is a weird looking thing on a boat that takes people to whatever is on the other side of the water.
There turns out to be a city or something after that but I've forgotten!

veda_lemmon

I read this book as a teenager so I remember only a few bits and pieces, sorry. So here goes:

There's sort of 2 main characters: a girl who lives with her mom and younger sister whose family owns an old house by a lake. The second main character is a boy who lives right next to the old house by the lake.

The old house by the lake contains a mystery which both the boy and girl are trying to figure out. The girl sneaks out one night to visit the house (i think). She ends up in the neighbor boy's bedroom to hide or something, and the boy has to keep her under his bed to whole night.

I remember something about there being a lake monster and in the end you find out that the lake monster is actually the girl's father or uncle (some relative).

I can't remember the title but I do remember it being a long one, something like 5 to 7 words. And it was one of those "How to...", "A guide to...", or something along the lines of those types of titles.

PLEASE HELP ME!

fancifuldelights

2010 or earlier-This book takes place in winter and a young woman is hired to babysit a quiet boy and they bond. The boy’s parents (I assume) are dead (under suspicious circumstances) and he lives in an old castle with an old woman and other family members and now the young woman. She isn’t liked by the family (they’re very mysterious) and they try to poison her by giving her a (cherry?) pie slice with poison but she doesn’t eat it. She ends up falling in love with a young man (not sure how they meet but he visits often). The two are chased by an assailant with a gun (possible shootout and they hide behind some stone pillars?) but they get away. There’s also a great pond surrounding the castle, there’s a lot of fear surrounding it (I believe the boy is afraid/there was an incident on the ice/drowning?) and someone falls through/left on the ice as punishment and the boy plays ice hockey on it I think. The young woman warms the boy up after he falls through? Thank you for reading and for any titles you suggest!

nothingwasthesame_26

I have been looking for this book for years! I vaguely remember the title for the book but every search I have made comes up with the wrong book.

The front of the book has a house with a tower room and I remember leaves and trees being apart of the scenery. Possibly fall but could have been spring. The window is a main focus of the tower and I'm not sure if a light was on.

The title from what I can remember is something a long the lines of the ghost in the tower or the secret tower room. Maybe even the girl in the tower? It is not a part of a series and is more of a young adult short read.

I read this book back in 2002-2003, but I'm pretty sure it's from the 80s or 90s. It had an older feel to it and the illustration on the front was not from a recent time.

The plot for the book is about a girl and her father who move into a new house with his girlfriend and her son I believe. The daughter and son do not get a long very well and I don't think the girl likes her fathers new love interest. They let her have a room with a door in it that leads to a tower. It has a special key that locks it. She loves painting or drawing and that is where they believe she can have her own little art studio to feel more at home in this new house. Later weird things start happening and she discovers theres an evil presence that lives in the tower and so she tries to keep the door locked. I believe she also tries to tell her dad & new stepmom, but no one will believe her. They blame her for all the weird stuff happening as they think she hates it there and her new family. In the end the ghost in the tower tries pushing her out of the window or maybe pushes the little boy out? Something crazy and bad happens and she finally figures out why the ghost was trapped up there and "releases" it. At the very end they have a nice picnic in the backyard and everything is back to normal again.

I really hope someone knows what this book is because it was such a good book I'm sad I can't remember it or even find it anywhere.

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klwill1192

I'm trying to track down a book I read as a kid. It was a 1970s era YA mystery. Here are the few details I remember:
The main character had a friend who was a genius inventor. One of his inventions was a retractable staircase.
The main character had a newspaper route and was in a contest to sell subscriptions.
One of the mysteries involved what turned out to be a (friendly) family of circus performers.
At the end, the circus family purchased a number of newspaper subscriptions that resulted in the main character winning (I think) the subscription contest.

I really don't remember much more about the book, but I'm hoping these details will ring a bell with somebody.

Thank you.

Kevin

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generationx

Hi, all. I had posted this years ago to the livejournal community but never got an answer. My google-fu is clearly failing me so I thought I'd post it again.

I'm looking for a mystery book that would have come out around 1985-1995. It wasn't for elementary school kids. Maybe more junior high age range? It was illustrated like a comic book but smaller and stiffer (with a soft cover). If it helps, I'm pretty sure I bought it on a trip to Cape Cod. The book was completely illustrated, full colored drawings, and would have little drawings of clippings or photographs most of which would have important details.

The main story was about a journalist/magazine writer sent to a soap opera set. (I want to say the Soap Opera was titled "Working" or "Working out" or something to that effect and was about a gym/fitness center.) The ending involved the screen writer's pen being leaky, a tell-tale pyramid shaped ring, an untold family reunion and a child actress wanting to be a reporter/editor. Almost every character in the story had a secret they were hiding. I'm really curious to know the name of it and more so if this was part of a series of books.

evah

Hi everyone. I read a book back in high school that was really interesting but for the life of my I can only remember a few details, so I’m hoping someone can help me out.

One of the details is that the main character had an old leg injury from a car crash he was in that killed his father. It’s later implied that the car crash was his fathers suicide.

The other detail is that he goes on these morning jogs with his girlfriend and at one point says something along the lines of, “I was always trying to keep up to her and she was always trying to stay one step ahead.

The way I remember it is that it was a mystery book but that’s it.

msbond007

Hello!

I just came across this community - I love that there are so many forgotten books that have been found!

There is one that I read back in elementary school - probably no later than 2000. I remember it every time a certain soundtrack plays on Pandora (the one my teacher played when I was reading the book), and every time I hear the song I am bothered that I cannot remember the name of the book.

I do not remember all the details of the YA mystery novel. What I do remember is that the protagonist came across the ghosts of a family that had been murdered (shot, I believe). There were graphic details - one family member's head was not totally connected to his neck, one was missing the back of her head, and even the horse was shot (still can't believe my elementary school had this!). The reason the protagonist came across the family's home or what the outcome of his interactions with them was escapes me. That is literally all I remember, but it is never enough to find the book.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

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