David Beckett had just returned from the military to his family’s home in Key West, Florida. He loved working in the museum that his family owned, which captured the grisly and sensational moments in Key West’s historical past. But everything changed when he found his ex-fiancée’s body laid out in one of the exhibits – especially since he was the prime suspect. His family was his alibi and there were many who suspected that they lied to keep David out of jail. David left everything behind him to begin a career as a successful nature photographer and didn’t even return home for his grandfather’s funeral. But now he is back and he is determined to keep history from repeating itself [...]
Claire Godwin has always been a paler shadow of her vivacious, larger-than-life foster sister, Melinda Varek. Melinda is always the one who comes up with some madcap plan and Claire inevitably follows, just as she has this time. Melinda has been missing for over a year. She just suddenly disappeared after performing in a play about Elizabeth Spenser, a beautiful young woman who was hanged for being a witch in the 17th century. Everyone has tried to persuade Claire that Melinda just got tired of mending old tapestries in Sommerstowe and decided to travel somewhere else, but Claire knows there is something terribly wrong. She finally finishes out the school year, closes up the library, and takes the job of repairing embroidery at Sommerstowe Hall, [...]
When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a startling discovery – the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long, red hair – Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire is called in to take charge of the remains and search the surrounding area. Nora Gavin, an American pathologist working in Dublin, joins Cormac at the dig to continue her research into bog bodies. Nora quickly becomes obsessed with the young woman and is determined to find out who she was, how she was killed, and why. When local landowner Hugh Osborne offers Cormac a job excavating the ruins of a Priory on his property that he would like to turn into an arts & crafts center, Nora persuades Cormac to accept [...]
Teddy Fitzroy has a murder on his hands – and no one is taking him seriously! Someone murdered Henry the Hippo, beloved mascot of FunJungle, America’s newest, most popular animal theme park, but all of the adults seem to want to cover up the facts rather than discover the truth! Sure Henry was hated by all who knew and worked with him, but that doesn’t mean that he deserved to die. Teddy is convinced that, if he follows up on the clues he discovered by eavesdropping at the autopsy, he will be able to discover who the criminal is. Was it Large Marge, a rather dim-witted security guard who seems to have it out for Teddy? Or was it the [...]
Something is rotten in Apple Country and Hildy Biddle is the reporter who is going to uncover the truth! So Hildy is really just a writer for the high school newspaper, The Core – that doesn’t mean that she isn’t going to stand up for what is right! Hildy is eager to prove that she is a real, hard-nosed journalist and this is just the big story that she needs. The only drawback is that the big story is about a ghost in a haunted house. How is Hildy supposed to interview people about something that isn’t even real?! As Hildy struggles to uncover the truth from the fictional, she has to battle against the local newspaper’s (The Bee) sensationalist [...]
Matthew Lanchester recently moved with his family to the small town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales so that his mother could open up a book shop. He didn’t want to move, but Matt is adjusting, making friends and planning on having some fun during school holidays. Then Matt goes on a thrilling bike ride down a huge hill and has a vision of another boy being hit by a landrover. The boy’s initials “M.L.” are carved into a tree at the end of the hill. It is too much of a coincidence that their initials are the same so Matt tries to find out about the victim and how he died.
Horace Carpetine is apprenticed to Enoch Middleditch, a society photographer in 1872 New York City. He has been raised to believe only in science and rationality, but thinks of his trade as being quite scientific and thus worthy of learning. So far, he has only been able to prep and clean the equipment, but Mr. Middleditch has promised that Horace will soon get to take photographs. His moment comes when wealthy society matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht hires Mr. Middleditch to take a photograph of her to put on her niece’s grave. Mr. Middleditch decides that he can make more money if he can insert the ghostly image of Eleanora, Mrs. Von Macht’s niece, into the photograph. He assigns [...]
Rae still can’t believe that Yana, the girl she thought of as her best friend, the one who stuck by her and helped her rescue her friend Jesse and made her laugh, was trying to kill her the whole time. How could someone be so nice to her and so fun to be around and totally hate her? Rae hates herself for rationalizing Yana’s behavior, but can’t help but wonder what she would have done if she were in Yana’s place…
Steve Mercer, the scientist who enhanced the psi abilities of people like her mother, and herself, was finally dead. Rae was definitely ready to put all of this behind her and to move forward. The first step towards being normal again was to get back together with Marcus. He doesn’t make Rae feel anywhere near the same as Anthony, but Yana and Anthony totally betrayed her trust and so she is ready to go with someone safe, someone normal. She feels like she has succeeded when she and Marcus are voted Moonbeam King & Queen, but Anthony destroys the evening by telling her that someone still wants her dead.
Rae just had the most amazing kiss of her life – from Anthony, the guy who always treated her like nothing more than a friend. However, he did just save her life from the kidnappers who had snatched her and Yana so maybe he didn’t really mean it? After all, it seems that Rae is always causing Anthony trouble and he spends a lot of time bailing her out, but he seemed to really care about her. Rae knows that Anthony regrets the kiss when he totally keeps his distance from her, which sucks, because she really needs his help right now. She knows that guy who kidnapped her has been watching her, taking pictures of her, and she had even talked to him once! [...]
Rae Voight knows that Anthony is still mad at her for going behind his back to find out about his dad and he even tries to avoid being paired with her in group therapy, but they get stuck telling each other about their hopes and dreams. Rae is surprised when she finds out that Anthony really wants to go to Sanderson Prep, her own high school, so that he can play football there. Anthony knows that he can never go there because it is way too expensive and he can barely read, let alone pass a bunch of tests. But Rae is determined to make this dream come true. She helps Anthony study and learn to read better and sets up a tryout practice with [...]
More pilgrims than usual have the priority in Walsingham on St. Anne’s Day so, when a young priest comes to Anselm to inform him of a death, Anselm assumes one of the sickly passed away after a long journey. Unfortunately, a rather grotesque, ill-liked merchant appears to have been murdered in the chapel. With a limited number of suspects available, Anselm determines that he will solve the mystery himself rather than open up the priory to the local sergeant-at-arms and his men.
