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If You Like...Middle Grade Mysteries

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I love reading mysteries in the fall! If you are also mesmerized by murder investigations and museum heists--like a certain recent jewel theft--these books are for you!

By Tom Phillips
New York: Pixel+Ink, 2022. Fiction. 344 pgs.

John has been living in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History for the last six months, but when a rare ruby is stolen from the museum's new exhibit, John is framed for the crime! John begins working with the quirky inspector, Toadius McGee, in order to clear his name and find the real culprit, before they disappear forever with the gem.

By Elizabeth C. Bunce
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Young Readers, 2020. Fiction. 361 pgs.

Myrtle longs to study criminology in Victorian England and help solve crimes like her prosecutor father. So, when she believes that something suspicious is going on at her neighbor's house, she calls the police herself. When the police arrive to find the old woman dead, Myrtle is convinced that there is something more behind her passing than natural causes and decides to open her own investigation into the murder with her governess.

Written by Alasdair Beckett-King
Illustrated by Claire Powell
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2025. Fiction. 277 pgs.

Montgomery Bonbon is a world renowned detective, but no one (other than her grandpa) knows that Bonbon is actually the alter ego of 10-year-old Bonnie Montgomery. When a local museum is robbed and the security guard is killed while Bonnie and Grampa are visiting the museum, Montgomery Bonbon is on the case to find the murderer and the missing artifact!

Written by Dianne K. Salerini
Illustrated by Matt Schu
New York: Holiday House, 2025. Fiction. 175 pgs.

When a group of guests, all subscribers of a financial tontine, arrive at an isolated inn in the Pocono Mountains, Nico believes this is his chance to escape. Orphaned and indentured to the horrible innkeeper, Nico is certain that if he can prove to the guests the innkeeper's guilt in his grandfather's death, he will finally be free. But nothing is as it seems, and everyone is hiding something, from the tontine members to the fund manager, and, of course, Nico himself.
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