mystery and detective stories

Lupe Arellano looks forward to a winter camping trip with the members of the Crime Scene Club, where they intend to learn more about environmental forensics, but a wilderness hike goes awry and endangers her life. Includes forensic notes.

While coping with an eating disorder and a complicated romantic situation, Lupe Arellano joins the Crime Scene Club and is sent to recover a lost treasure, but must outwit the murderer who is desperate to protect his fortune. Includes forensic notes.

As her health declines, elderly Mrs. Mortimer's greedy family becomes increasingly interested in her estate, raising the suspicions of Father Dowling and a teenage trio.

O'Connor is caught in the middle of a gang dispute between the Aurora Anglos and the Ojibwe Reservation Red Boyz, a situation that turns deadly when the Red Boyz leader and his wife are found murdered.

A hated judge is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a town in Minnesota with an Indian casino, and a young Ojibwa Indian leaves home in a hurry. Former sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates if there is a connection.

The Radwick Rangers seem destined to become champions until one of their players is found dead and the rest of the team is being stalked.

A sixteen-year-old foster child becomes a Christian while uncovering a mystery involving a swimming accident, a locked bedroom, and a tense reunion with her mother.

Kit's discovery of a "secret" Japanese garden is the beginning of a healing process as her family disintegrates and new friendships add new, enriching dimensions to her life.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, from freelancing in South Florida at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner to solve the murder of a 14-year-old girl, but she finds that nothing is as she left it. Her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has had personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.

Since witnessing a shocking crime, Hope can't remember anything about herself or her life, and she is afraid to trust the man who claims to be her father and the strange teenager who says he's her cousin. With the help of Mitch, the man she loves, Hope struggles to solve the mystery that surrounds her.