Books like Deadly stranger by Peg Kehret

A struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance takes over caretaking of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, but a winter storm and the building’s malevolent past drive him toward madness, threatening his family's safety.

After a compulsory school change, 12‑year‑old Lucas journeys to New York to seek help from his idol, fire‑fighter Benny, only to witness the September 11 attacks and discover the true meaning of bravery and resilience.

Nancy Springer's second Enola Holmes mystery follows the clever teenage detective as she pursues the disappearance of a left‑handed lady in Victorian London, confronting danger and intrigue along the way.

A teenage girl’s abduction turns into a perilous accusation when she’s blamed for orchestrating her kidnapping to extort her wealthy grandmother.

When teenage friends Meg and Kathy suspect two tourists on the Texas Gulf Coast, the investigation turns from a game to a real mystery when Kathy vanishes, forcing the girls to solve the kidnapping before it's too late.

When Derek Chapman hitches a ride, he unwittingly sets the stage for his own kidnapping—and the mystery that follows threatens to keep him—and his friends—on edge.

After the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, Flavia and her friends uncover a wave of kidnappings in Pompeii’s refugee camp, suspecting a powerful citizen—and perhaps pirates—behind the disappearances.

An angel named Mercy awakens repeatedly in new bodies, racing to return to heaven while being pursued for a crime she never committed.

289 pages ; 21 cm

When the mysterious stalker "A" reveals their knowledge of the girls’ hidden crimes, four high‑school seniors confront new threats that could destroy their lives and reputations.

**What secrets does the Shadow Market hold?** The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah. This description comes from the publisher. *Ghosts of the Shadow Market* takes place in the Shadowhunter world, the first book of which is *City of Bones*.

A bullied teenager with a port‑wine stain discovers inner resilience as she faces abduction and abuse by a deranged killer.

Tracy, a high‑school junior, is drawn into a tense mystery when a strange boy seeks her help to rescue his half‑sister from an alleged kidnapping by her father.

When two middle‑school girls in Red Rock are almost kidnapped, the quiet town is shaken and a race begins to protect the children and uncover the truth behind the break‑in.

A teenage girl protects her feral cat community from bulldozing and a perplexing mystery, using her wits to keep both cats and herself safe.

Basil the mouse, dubbed the Sherlock Holmes of the mouse world, uses his keen detective skills to solve the mystery of the missing twins in this charming children’s adventure.

After losing his parents in a Seattle mall tragedy, 13‑year‑old Jeremy is on a train to Chicago when a derailment forces him into a deserted cabin, where he must confront survival and his own resilience.

Hank the Cowdog protects his ranch when a major theft rocks the property and the beloved Miss Beulah is taken captive.

A clever cat's heroism helps two twelve-year-old boys become friends after their families, one of which is in a witness protection program, move to neighboring houses in Hilltop, Washington.

Ginger’s world is shattered when a familiar face in a white car begins to stalk her – and the stranger is from her past.

Telekinetics, teleportation and an ancient incantation collide when Kayla and Daniel team up to rescue a kidnapped mother, risking danger that could tear apart their family life.

Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes and the famed thief Arsène Lupin plan a reunion in London, but Lupin is missing while his father, Théophraste, is arrested on a murder charge.

When 21‑year‑old social media star Chelsea Dawson vanishes, her friend Aerin, whose sister Helena was murdered years before, suspects a fatal link and enlists her friends to uncover a chilling mystery.