murder

Kerri Langston, having always tried to suppress her psychic vision, realizes the talent might be put to good use in discovering who killed a victim whose body she stumbled across in the woods near Deacon Pond, but what her perception fails to tell her is that she is being stalked by someone who does not want the truth revealed.

When Peyton Newlin, a 13-year-old math genius disappears, math teacher Bonnie Pinkwater begins to investigate. One by one, Peyton's competitors turn up dead and Bonnie suspects the young math whiz may have something to do with it. But when Peyton also is murdered, Bonnie's sleuthing reveals a coven of witches, a violent skinhead, an abusive father, an amorous science teacher and a medieval mathematics manuscript that has been mistranslated.

Miss Jane Marple, a deceptively demure spinster, investigates when an unpopular magistrate and church warden is discovered shot through the head.

FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are caught in a freak show when they investigate a series of murders that leave the victims with an odd, oval-shaped wound and the trail leads them to a circus retirement community.

"Wild Boy, covered in hair from head to toe, becomes a sideshow freak. Isolated from other children and abused by the cruel master who bought him, Wild Boy becomes an avid observer, developing Sherlock Holmes-like deductive skills. ... When a murder occurs at the fair, Wild Boy is accused. Can he use his powers of deduction to save himself?"--Back cover.

After her untimely death, eighteen-year-old Shari tries to prove that she did not commit suicide and to keep the person responsible from killing again.

For years Paul Graves has tried to escape his past and forget about his sister's murder, but when he is called to Riverwood to write a story about a young girl who was killed more than forty years earlier, he is forced to face the demons that have always tormented him.