Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction

All that State Police Sr. Investigator Dennis Girard wants to do is solve a smuggling case and then retire from a career that has recently been lackluster. Instead, he is killed by his quarry, and enters the world of near-death experiences. Eventually returned to duty, he must cope with visions, voices and spiritual experiences. Suddenly, the end of his career in 2008 is filled with a desperate attempt to catch devious strangers who, it appears, want to kill former President George H.W. Bush. Two explosive endings to a tale that spans Quebec and the northeastern U.S.

Traversing the peaks and valleys of Alpine landscapes and human passions, KEENE'S LAW is the story of two families, through three generations, working to shape and preserve the wilderness of the Adirondacks. Author George Patte uses exquisite imagery to explore the North Country of 1894, and the boundaries of the human heart at the intersection of passion and principle. Attorney Keene Durant, having made a judgment call on behalf of his deceased client, William Longfellow, sets in motion a complex legal knot for the next generation, Jack Durant and Kora Longfellow, to untangle.

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.

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.

In exchange for billions in defaulted bonds, the bankrupt State of New York is about to transfer four million acres of Adirondack Park land to a development consortium of Chinese and Saudi banks. Catastrophic climate change and collapse of the debt-driven U.S. economy have devastated the dream that was America. But when a twenty-second-century adventurer discovers he is lost in the Adirondacks--and it is 1832--there is hope that America has one last chance to get it right, before everything goes terribly wrong. -- back cover.

Set in the southern Adirondacks of upstate New York, during World War Two, eleven-year-old Mary, and her younger brother, Chief, survive the premature death of their Native American (Abenaki) mother only to suffer abuses from their white father. When they are sent to live with a widowed aunt in Fiddler's Rock, it appears they have a good home, but an unplanned pregnancy and two deaths change that. -- cover.

A millionaire real estate developer is found dead in a trout pool in the Adirondacks. Everyone, including the police says it was an accidental death, except Trooper Plunkett. Twenty years earlier he dated the widow. By the author of Bahama Heat.

When his son is falsely accused of a murder that he believes was actually committed by a serial killer, Tom Braddock endeavors to clear his son's name by capturing the killer and launches a chase through the Adirondack wilderness.