New Releases by CAROLYN KEENE

Tension starts to build in River Heights when people begin choosing their sides for a Civil War reenactment.

Contemporary detective Nancy Drew teams with her friends to solve new mysteries.

Nancy, Bess, and George travel to a nature preserve in Costa Rica where they investigate why many of the monkeys have mysteriously disappeared from this area.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE DOESN''T PROVE THE IDENTITY OF CRAFTY THIEVES! Nancy''s friend Bess has been hired by Special Effects, a River Heights company, to decorate Albemarle''s department store for the holidays. When Bess discovers that her friend Ali Marie is now working at the store, she''s thrilled -- the two of them can have lunch and try on clothes for fun! But when some dresses are swiped, Ali is accused of stealing, and the party''s over. Sure of her friend''s innocence, Bess calls in Nancy to help find the real thief. With all the suspects and misleading clues, Nancy and her friends are running in circles -- and the holiday shopping rush isn''t helping! Can they figure out the identity of a clothes-hungry kleptomaniac before the holiday season turns sour?

Nancy gets the big picture from a really tiny clue! Nancy and her friends love Mr. Lizard''s Funhouse -- it''s their favorite TV show. But now Mr. Lizard is going to be replaced -- by a cooking show! Nancy gets the kids in school to sign a petition to save the Show, but when she brings it to the TV station, it says in big purple letters, "Get rid of Mr. Lizard!" From the lunch lady to a science whiz kid, anyone in school Could have written the nasty note. Then Nancy''s father gives her a special gift -- a magnifying glass. It''s just the thing for an upclose look at her best clue -- a distinctive purple fingerprint!

Nancy''s discovery of a treasure map leads her into a network of underground passageways beneath a spooky cemetery, where she uncovers a series of clues to both a recent outbreak of robberies and the location of a long-lost fortune in gold.

Nancy and her friends investigate mysterious events taking place in an amusement park.

Nancy, Bess, and George get caught up in a mystery while taking horseback-riding lessons.

Nancy mounts and investigation that leads to a series of dangerous encounters, an angry Doberman, a mystery assailant, and a life-threatening kidnapper.

A two-hundred-old mystery puts Nancy in immediate peril.

Nancy Drew loses her special detective notebook and everyone wants to find it.

At camp, Lauren''s camera is missing.

Nancy Drew and a handsome young detective investigate the threats against Esme Moore, the romance writer whose pending autobiography contains some scandalous confessions.

A rare Chinese vase is stolen from a pottery shop. Nancy and the owner of the shop feel that locating "the leaning chimney" will provide the clue to the vase and other stolen articles.

Ned and Nancy visit San Francisco and become involved when the top model at the Coast''s hottest talent agency is murdered.

Nancy goes to wyoming to find a missing heiress.

A quest for pirate treasure takes clever detective Nancy Drew and her friends to a small island in the Bahamas.

Nancy meets a masked figure who tries to steal a parchment which contains a hidden message.

Nancy''s sympathy for a pair of adopted twin babies leads her into a surprising mystery.

Once again Nancy Drew is involved in a mystery as she tries to locate an archaeologist who disappeared with the clues to a buried treasure.

Challenging questions confront Nancy Drew when she attempts to solve the mystery of the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress. Who is the tapper? How does he gain access to Miss Carter’s house, despite securely locked doors and windows? Why do the tapping sounds come in Morse code? Is there a sinister motive behind the prowler’s actions? While trying to learn the answers to these and other puzzling questions, Nancy finds her investigations complicated by the dishonest administrator of a will and by a thief who steals the actress’s prize Persian cats.

What secret life-giving power does the exquisite ivory elephant charm contain? Can the trinket really protect its wearer from all harm? Nancy Drew finds out when the owner of the Bengleton Wild-Animal Show asks her to investigate one of the performers who may be involved in some mysterious illegal scheme.The girl detective’s assignment becomes complicated when the elephant trainer’s young assistant, Rishi, seeks refuge at the Drew home from his cruel foster father, Rai.While following clues to help the boy find his real father, Nancy learns about an eerie abandoned house. She is harassed by its strange owner, Anita Allison, and the fiendish Rai. How Nancy uses the ivory charm, reunites a maharaja with his son, and brings the evildoers to justice will mystify readers from beginning to end.

Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase hits the big screen in March of 2019! Read the classic book that inspired the movie! After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen''s Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie shadows on the walls. Could the house be haunted? Just as soon as she hangs up the phone, a strange man visits Nancy''s house to warn her and her father that they are in danger because of a case he is working on buying property for a railroad company. This warning leads Nancy and her father Carson to search for the missing Willie Wharton, a landowner, who can prove he signed away his land to the railroad and save the railroad from a lawsuit. Will Nancy be able to find the missing landowner and discover how these mysteries are related?