Dramatizes the events that surround the murder of a white man in a volatile Southern community.
Late on a summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, is visited in his sleep out by Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help Charlie follow him takes him to his secret glade in the bush, where he witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery.
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
Watching from beyond the grave while her long-lost identical twin, Emma, assumes her identity, Sutton Mercer witnesses the discovery of a dark family secret and realises that someone from Emma's past may be her own killer
Sarah's weekend double-date would be wonderful - if only she were with Adam instead of Matt. When they lose their way and have to shelter at the Arcadia Inn, Sarah feels she would do anything to lose Matt and Julie to that she can be alone with Adam.
A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
Notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Backman receives a surprise pardon on his twenty year sentence from the President. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy.
In 1327, Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Bakersville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in the same number of days, and Brother William must turn detective to sort things out.
Investigator Isaac Bell is on the trail of a ruthless espionage agent . . .On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again - and this time one of the scientists dies. What a…
Summary: It's 1910. Air travel is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first aviator to cross America in less than 50 days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates - a heroic woman named Josephine Frost - and that's where Isaac, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Josephine's husband, Harry, has just mur…
Southern small town darling Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the eyes of the victims of a serial killer, and realizes that she, too, is a target of the depraved stalker. When Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital, she's confused who in her sleepy little North Carolina town could have hit her with their car? And why? It seems impossible that anyone …
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car ... For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation ... A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years ... Then someone…
Originally published: 2006
One of the breakout debuts of 2012 - a unique historical thriller set in melting pot New York. In the summer of 1845, following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last formed a Police Department. The potato, a crop that can be trusted to yield reliable nutrition from barren, limited space, had long been the base staple of the Irish tenant farmer. By the summer of 1845,…
Contents: Party -- Dance -- Graduation First published in separate volumes