Fiction (fic)

Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. Now she has returned to the placid, isolated shores of the lakeside school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories that will become a living nightmare.

An unlikely group of campers including a woman, her two oddball friends, her teen daughter and her ex's fiancée embark on a trip in the Adirondacks only to be targeted by a pair of teenage killers.

On June 4, the body of a young woman surfaced from 300 feet of water in Lake Placid, New York. Because of the depth and the intense cold of the water, the body, which was determined by medical examiners to have been submerged for 20 years, was remarkably well-preserved. Authorities concluded that her death had been violent.

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.