Convinced that the owner of a neighboring farm has killed his sharp-tongued wife, sixteen-year-old Bodie searches for her body, until his detective work reaches a chaotic and humorous climax.
When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him two thousand dollars. The boy's sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.
Seventeen-year-old Fell's determination to investigate his best friend's death in a car crash leads him to a ventriloquists' convention and an unsolved disappearance from almost twenty years ago.
In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life.
When her beloved seeing-eye dog is kidnapped, Jocelyn, orphaned and blind since the age of twelve, determines to solve the mystery surrounding his disappearance.
Jessie Smith was just thirteen years old and never really meant to harm the old grocer. He was mean and miserly but the townspeople soon forgot that after he was murdered.
Eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe becomes friends with siblings Teb and Pontsho and their pet meerkat, Kosi, and when her new friends' cow goes missing, she decides to help out by finding it.
