The Best True-crime Podcasts Books for Kids

Summary: Seventeen years after Layla Trello was murdered, true-crime fan Piper Gray starts a podcast to find out who killed her. With help from Jonas, who is hiding a secret of his own, Piper digs into the cold case, but anonymous threats warn her to back off. The killer may still be close, and Piper has to solve the case before she becomes the next victim.

Summary: A year after cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished, her younger sister Iris is still searching, though her own investigation only scared off the police's one lead. Then Iris's ex-girlfriend Heather, host of a true-crime podcast, goes missing too, and Iris joins an unlikely detective team to find out what is happening to the girls of their small Louisiana town. A twisty YA mystery with a sapphic heroine.