Dark, Mysterious and Suspenseful Fantasy

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Dark tones
• Fantasy
• Mystery
• Suspense
  

The Secret Hour (Midnighter series #1)
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFE
Jessica Day discovers she belongs to a select group of individuals whose birth at the stroke of midnight gives them the special ability to move about in a mysterious 25th hour. As Jessica takes her place among these extraordinary teens, she must battle the increasingly dangerous creatures that have suddenly become more violent and aggressive.

Twilight
By Stephenie Meyer
YA F MEYER
Bella moves to Forks to live with her father, and ends up meeting--and falling in love with--the mysterious Edward Cullen. Edward and his family are vampires who feed on animals, but through her association with them Bella meets vampires who are after her blood and the Cullens try to save her.

A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba Bray
YA F BRAY
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Nine Coaches Waiting
By Mary Stewart
MYSTERY STEWART
When Linda Martin arrives at Château Valmy as a governess, it seems like a dream. But terror is crouching in the shadows. Her charge's uncle Leon is the epitome of charm but only his son Raoul seems able to stand up to him. To Linda, Raoul is an enigma--a darkly attractive enigma.

Uglies
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFELD
Tally Youngblood lives in a futuristic society where the citizens believe that they are ugly until age 16 when they'll undergo an operation that will change them into "pretties." Anticipating this happy transformation, Tally meets Shay, another female ugly, who urges Tally to defect with her to the Smoke, a distant settlement of simple-living conscientious objectors.