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Trout Lake: an Adirondack novel

The flooding of Trout Lake in upstate New York reveals the glories and intrigues of living in an Adirondack town. A reclusive billionaire, two frozen-in-time sisters, a manipulative mayor, and a school teacher with a secret are among the eccentric yet touching characters. Subplots include the anonymous bestowing of $100 bills on selective citizens, and various wars between locals and summer residents. At the center of the storm are Henry, a retired lawyer, and his wheelchair-bound wife Sally radiating humor and wisdom. -- back cover.

Lights on the lake

Lonely Daniel Rider, living with his parents in his dead grandmother's house in the Adirondack Mountains, becomes involved with a young poet grieving for a dead friend and a mysterious black bird that reveals other people's dreams.

Us against Them

Sixteen-year-old Reed, the leader of a club with a reputation for bucking adult authority, makes a gesture of defiance by taking his friends camping in the Adirondacks, only to find his band collapsing into dissension and violence.

Adirondack detective: as autumn leaves turn

Private Detective Jason Black with his wife, Patty, and their son, Jay, have returned to their log home in the Adirondack Mountain Hamlet of of Old Forge and Detective Black is busy working on routine check cases, when he receives a telephone call from Private Investigator Wayne Beyea of Mableton, Georgia concerning a missing young woman who failed to return to her parents home in Mableton after selling magazine subscriptions with other sales people in the vast Adirondack Mountain Park region.

Where time ends: a novel

While camping in the Adirondacks, teenage best friends Doug and Loop fall in with Ernie and her belligerent brother, as a Soviet missile attack heralds the beginning of a dangerous war with biological weapons and the entire country enters a state of chaotic emergency conditions.