Fiction (fic)

Maurice Halleck, Director of the Commission for the Ministry of Justice, is accused of wrongdoing and then dies in a suspicious car accident. A suicide note and confession are found. But are they legitimate, or was he coerced into writing them before he was taken out to be killed?

An eleven-year-old girl being raised by a single mother in the Adirondack region of New York begins asking questions about her biological father and her maternal grandmother.

After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.

When her husband and son are murdered, she thinks she's lost it all. But for Sarah Curandt the nightmare is just beginning. She has just witnessed the execution of the man who confessed to killing her husband and son, among others. She leaves with no closure as the killer has refused to reveal the site of her family's graves. Sarah returns home to her small town of Hopewell in the Adirondack Mountains and vows to search until she finds Sam and Josh, and her hunt leads to a trail of lies and unearths a new killer.

If a man kills in his sleep, is he guilty of murder? Lawyer Matt Fielder will argue he is not. The case concerns a sleep-walking man in New York State who is accused of murdering his grandparents.

A cunning thief is desperate to wreck the opening of a historic landmark -- and Nancy is his target! On Gramercy Park in New York City, the magnificent Van Hoogstraten mansion with its priceless collection of glass birds is about to open to the public. Nancy, Bess, and George are invited. When the centerpiece of the collection, a beautiful crystal bird, is stolen, Nancy gets on the case. From family members with motives to keep the house, to an antiques dealer with a personal grudge, suspects abound.