mystery fiction

"You're home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second. The phone rings--it's the call you hoped you'd never get. You jump in your car and race to a neighborhood you thought you'd never visit. You peer into the dark, deserted building. You brace yourself for the worst. And then, you remember nothing else. They tell your husband you've been in an accident. You lost control of your car as you sped through the worst side of town. The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to believe it. Your best friend is not so sure. And even you don't know what to believe"--Provided by publisher.

Collects three Nancy Drew mysteries, including "Secrets Can Kill," in which Nancy poses as a student and goes undercover to investigate a series of thefts at Bedford High; "Deadly intent," in which Nancy must find missing rock star Barton Novak who disappeared suddenly; and "Murder on Ice," in which Nancy and her friends find themselves in peril during a weekend on the ski slopes and their handsome ski-instructor is among the suspects.

Thirteen-year-old Amy Candler, a clone with superhuman powers, investigates when she and her sister clones begin to deteriorate.

A collection of eight Edgar Allan Poe tales of horror and mystery, especially adapted for younger readers.

Los Angeles homicide detective Alex Brandon, investigating the murder of a notorious drug dealer, soon comes to the realization that the killing was just the first in a rash of crimes committed against felons on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and that the deaths are somehow related to Kit Logan, a young man who murdered his stepfather--an abusive serial murderer.

Psychologist-detective Alex Delaware probes into the dark life of Lauren Teague, a young woman he treated years earlier when she was a troubled teenager, whose corpse has been found dumped in an alley.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a colleague, and in the midst of teaching at an archaeology school, Temperance stumbles upon a murder mystery that may threaten her life.

Devon Brady, a dedicated veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a canine search and rescue mission, encounters Jude Marrock and his wounded black lab, Ned; Jude gets Devon involved in a deadly game with innocent lives at stake.

Presents twelve original stories based on cases referred to in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes adventures.

Intelligence operative Lord Alexander Hawke matches wits with a brilliant but deadly psychopath in a desperate race to prevent an American Armageddon.