Detective & Mystery

Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is the shadowy outline of a body--a man she knows. One of her roommates falls under suspicion, and the media descends. Troy's assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who, it turns out, was the privileged son of a wealthy Connecticut family who had been playing at a blue collar life in this Adirondack village. And the deeper Troy digs into his life and mysterious death, the murkier things become.

His suspenseful life as an ER doctor intensified by the discovery of a homicide victim from twenty-five years earlier--a woman he had been the last to see alive--Earl Garnet mounts a search for the truth and fears his own life may be forfeit if he fails. By the author of Lethal Practice.

While vacationing with a group of actors in an old Victorian hotel in the Adirondacks, a young actress uncovers a mystery surrounding the death of a girl who was to play the role of Ophelia in a 1943 production of "Hamlet."

Mysterious nineteenth-century letters found in the attic of her city brownstone lead Anna and her restless granddaughter, Emma, on a search to discover family secrets in the town of Griffin. To their surprise, the elusive town has all but vanished, reclaimed by the Adirondack forest. What was initially a larky jaunt becomes a puzzle. Anna and Emma's chance encounter with Miles, a lone fisherman on the banks of the East Branch near Griffin, quickly cascades into a series of unanticipated events ...

Ann Kinnear has created a peaceful existence at her cabin in the Adirondack woods. But the calm is shattered after Philadelphia socialite Elizabeth Firth is reported missing. With few clues and fewer options, detective Joe Booth calls upon Ann's spirit sensing abilities to help solve the mystery. With Joe and her brother Mike, Ann attempts to uncover what Elizabeth's husband may be hiding beneath his cloak of wealth and privilege.

When Marcella Hollister's mother Thelma is kidnapped from her hospital bed, Marcella enlists the help of her Native American husband and a quirky bird psychic, Earl Tiramisu.

Striker Malone is determined to make a living and earn self-respect in a town that once thrived on iron ore. His sancturary is the Black Rock Tavern where he befriends Loretta and Savanna and the unpredictable Joey Rook. Together they tangle with a lawless clan called the Long Coats. Beneath the surface a contagious disease is wiping out the bats, and like the dying bats, Striker may become an endangered species. -- back cover.