Lourey, Jess

Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it?s not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can?t forget. They?ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears; the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate. Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can?t stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger. She also knows she?s next.

"Cassie McDowell's life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents' strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she's grown accustomed to them. All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale. One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed--violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes the stuff of shocking rumors. The accusations of who's responsible grow just as wild, and dangerous town secrets start to surface. Then Cassie's own sister undergoes the dark change. If she is to survive, Cassie must find her way in an adult world where every sin is justified, and only the truth is unforgivable"--Provided by publisher.

"Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since making a breakthrough discovery in her field of quantum computing. She's also an agoraphobe, shackled to a narrow routine by her fear of public places. When her mother's disappearnce is linked to a plot to assassinate the country's first viable female presidential candidate, Salem finds herself both target and detective in a modern-day witch hunt. Drawn into a labyrinth of messages encrypted by Emily Dickinson and centuries-old codes tucked inside the Beale Cipher, Salem begins to uncover the truth: an ancient ruthless group is hell-bent on ruling the world, and only a select group of women stands in the way."--Back cover.

Believing herself to be a normal teen in Alabama, Aine's world is turned upside down when a monster named Biblos attacks and she discovers that she has been living inside a book for the last five years, a realization that spurs her on a journey to defeat the creature.

When she stumbles across a waterlogged corpse while looking into a local legend about a diamond necklace lost in a nearby lake, part-time reporter Mira James is determined to solve the crime.

When deer hunter Tom Kicker is killed in a hunting accident, Mira James braves a winter blizzard to investigate and discovers dark secrets that incriminate the town's most prominent families.

In her new home in small town Minnesota, private-detective-in-training Mira James must investigate a 150-year cold case, as well as a present-day spate of drug-trafficking.

Mira James investigates a serial killer who uses online dating sites to seduce and kill women who look just like her--and leaves a candy cane as his calling card.

Mira is ready to ditch her adopted hometown of Battle Lake, Minnesota, until a cheerleader is found murdered.