Cat-sitter turned sleuth Alice Nestleton assists the New York City police to solve a string of serial killings and cat-nappings. The chase takes her from the Adirondacks to Central Park and everywhere in between.

In Rochester, New York, T.S.W. Sheridan, a writer, probes the "accidental" death of a woman environmental leader in the Adirondacks. The suspects range from lumber barons to a laid-off miner who threatened her. When the miner is shot with the woman's missing weapon, Sheridan knows he's onto more than an accident.

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

Fifteen-year-old Eugene Dingman records in his personal diary his summer spent as a waiter in a hotel in the Adirondacks, learning to cope with rejection from the girl he has a crush on as well as from his own father.

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a bizzare, amazing place called Loon Lake.

Two friends take over an inn in the Adirondacks.