New books for the term break!

The Strawberry Picker - Monika Feth [translated by Anthea Bell]

Eighteen-year-old Jenna is sharing a flat in Brohl, Germany, with her friends Caro and Merle when a girl is killed nearby. The murder seems to have parallels with two crimes that have taken place in the north of the country, and everyone is scared.

Then one day Caro is found murdered - stabbed seven times and with her necklace missing, just like the other girls. At the funeral Jenna swears revenge in front of everybody, and in turn attracts the attention of Nat, a handsome and mysterious strawberry picker. With Jenna sidetracked by love, Merle sets about solving Caro's murder herself. But as the answer dawns on her, another horrifying reality emerges ...

[I've just started reading it - might be interesting]

1-800-WHERE-ARE-YOU - Meg Cabot

Jess Mastriani - dubbed "Lightning Girl" by the press when, after a huge storm, she developed a psychic ability to find missing children - has lost her miraculous powers. Or has she? She would like the media and the government to think so. All Jess wants is to be left alone, by everyone except sexy Rob Wilkins - who hasn't called, by the way ...

But it doesn't look like Jess is going to get her wish - especially not while she's stuck working at a summer camp for musically gifted kids. Then the father of a missing girl shows up to beg Jess to find his daughter. Jess can't say no, but now the feds are on her trail again, as is one ornery stepdad, who'd like to see Lightning Girl ... well, dead.