Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction

After 15 years, Allie Armington returns to her aunt Sallie's cottage retreat in the Adirondacks where she spent most of her childhood summers. But instead of the happy reunion she's anticipating, she finds murder.

Winter can be harsh in the North Country. When the reckless teenaged Rousseau brothers, J.T. and Dustin, attempt to cross a frozen Lake Champlain in their ancient VW, what they find plunges them into hot water, not cold. Their guilt in a brutal murder is obvious to everyone except English teacher Amelia Prentice Dickensen, freshly returned from her honeymoon with new husband Gil, who is determined to find the clue that will prove them innocent: a single bullet.

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.

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.