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George and Mary Thomas persevere their way through the Great Depression of the 1930s by renting rooms in their house, but one of their tenants has gone missing and when police ring their front doorbell Christmas Eve, their Yuletide Season is suddenly detoured...With the signing of peace treaties after WWI - modest people in towns and cities throughout Europe and across North America dared to focus energy and hope on rebuilding. Believing war and military threat was behind them the general population embraced the 1920s only to be shaken to their core again, this time by a sharp global ...

It's Spring Break, Mia Cho [15] and Gordon McKenna [16] almost finished their flying lessons, are ready to solo. However while teasing each other during a landing their instructor postpones issuing their pilot's license. Disappointed Gordon is distracted by the long awaited arrival of his cousin Patrick, while Mia hopes no one asks about her flying. Tension develops around town when two men, one a shift supervisor at a foreign owned uranium mine and the other a local park ranger, go missing twenty-four hours apart. With only suspicions, but few clues except newspaper photos and a short ...

In Tucson, every secret leaves a trace—some buried deeper than others. Rookie homicide detective Andrew Coates is still learning the ropes when a string of cold-case murders begins to connect in unexpected ways. Each victim leads him closer to a web of vengeance that someone has carefully kept hidden—until now. When the case expands with the discovery of a fourth and fifth victim, Andrew’s investigation turns personal. The woman he’s falling for is tied to the latest murder, and the truth about his own abandoned past starts to collide with the evidence he’s chasing. As the Arizona...

Sequel to "The Count Of Baldpate" mystery... CSU History Professor Hank Rule has retired with plans to relax far from any media limelight. However, those plans become interrupted when former student and Baldpate investigative colleague Claire Gage, calls him again. This time, what had appeared to be a simple missing persons, soon leads in the direction of an affair with a Catholic priest, an unexplained death and a ghost organization on the brink of accomplishing an ambitious and terrifying objective...

Who is that third person--largely unseen--who advises those who influence the people who make public policy? A body is discovered below the layers of an early fall snow in the west garden of Historic Canyon House in Flagstaff, Arizona. Motive for the murder is as layered as the snow reaching far beyond Arizona...

24 SUSSEX DRIVE is the official residence of the Canadian Prime Minister. And the peaceful democracy that shelters thousands of the world's refugees has been infiltrated by a silent, invisible invasion. After WWII a secret elite in Stalin's Russian military devised a strategy to gain political control of the passive North American democracy - Canada. By 1975 the twenty-year-old ploy had been so effective that enough sleeper agents were living and working at all key levels of Canadian society to launch the unprecendented coup, except for one element - a puppet prime minister. With the '...

Where do we 'go' in our dreams? From inside the wall cavity of a century old building inherited by cousins Olivia and Phoebe Jamieson were the remains of a man who died 80 years before-along with four original oil paintings still listed as missing from thefts during WWII. From the moment of that discovery, Olivia dealt with her growing feelings for the lead detective, the disrupting presence of an art investigator brought in to authenticate the paintings and confusion over a series of reoccurring dreams. However-just when Olivia began to make sense of the clues in her dreams, a new murder ...

The slick and charming younger brother of the mayor returns to Mosquito Creek. On the run from very unsavory people the card-shark's secret plan is just to lay low. However the ruse of 'going-straight' soon begins to unravel when a retired town resident and vocal critic of the town manager is found dead. Gordon McKenna [now 13] realizes that in order to investigate the manager's activities the young detectives need insider help. With the mayor away on business his brother has keys to all town hall offices. Gordon McKenna and Joey Salas [now 12] convince the uneasy gambler to assist. After ...

The beloved grandmother of Joey Salas suffered a stroke in January. By August, with only a learner's permit Joey and his best friend Leif Anderlund sneak out and drive off in Grandma's car to 'spring' her from the rehab clinic. While trying to elude any police and parental detection Joey and Leif take a wrong turn and end up following a winding road that is anything but a short cut. Instead the novice road explorers discover desperate kidnappers holding the governor's kid sister hostage. Entirely on their own Joey and Leif must use the limited resources they have to save themselves and the ...

With only weeks before global and local Millennium New Years celebrations 13 year-old Joey Salas overhears a disturbing phone coversation, from one of the owners of a new business in town. Heritage Toys brought more employment and attention to Mosquito Creek, Montana, but did it bring something else too? After Joey shares his unease with other club members and the sheriff everything at the factory seems innocent until the unveiling of a commemorative nutcracker - with working parts that may do more than just play music...

When a business card belonging to history professor Hank Rule is found on the body of a murder victim near Baldpate Inn, Estes Park, Colorado the new sheriff wants to know why. But as the investigation progresses discovering why becomes more convoluted and treacherous for everyone connected to the case than any of the seasoned detectives had ever experienced before. Chasing clues across the country - and from another century - and a sly killer across Europe they discover a stunning motive more ancient than written history...

Fate introduced Laura Baker to Neil McKenzie when the RCMP Officer had to inform Laura that her husband had died in a traffic accident - but suddenly a widow was only her first test...Slowly as the months pass and Laura manages to emerge from the shadow of her ambitious late husband into the light of recognition for her own submerged talent - Laura has her new direction under control except for her feelings for the RCMP Sergeant who burst into her life. Neil McKenzie's growing importance has created a new fear making her reluctant to risk another devastating loss...However when Laura's art ...

Orphaned when he was three years-old, Elijah Day Clearwater is growing up with his grandfather on a small farm between the Sarsi Tsuu T'ina Reservation and the town of Canmore, Alberta. Elijah is also growing up with Cystic Fibrosis...But thirteen days before his thirteenth birthday, Elijah begins to have vivid dreams. The first one is of a chieftain leading a clan in 14th Century Ireland. The second dream is of the chief leading a band of Blackfoot living in 18th Century South Saskatchewan-North Dakota. Perhaps the dreams are just an outlet from the stress of a school bully - or maybe they...

Eleven-year-old Sonia Molosky's quiet summer and that of her close friends begins to shift after an insurance investigator arrives in Mosquito Creek to settle the vast estate of a young heiress who disappeared seven years before. When Sonia discovers the contents of a suitcase behind a hidden door at the back of her mother's closet, she convinces six of her pals to help her search for new clues to the unsolved mystery. Curiosity soon escalates events to an unexpected discovery that challenges their untested resourcefulness and courage in order to outwit and expose a cruel and cunning foe. ...

Ten days before Christmas - Mosquito Creek, Montana buzzes with Yuletide activity. Along with the arrival of relatives and old friends, two strangers appear. One man claims to be a real estate developer. A second man claims to be a gourmet coffee executive. Both newcomers also claim they never met. However, twelve-year-old Hanna Gaikis witnesses two events that conflicts with their stories. Risking discovery and serious harm, Hanna and Stephen Anderlund [12] find enough proof to convince the rest of their team they have another mystery to solve. And, suddenly the amateur sleuths must race ...

Hanna Gaikis [now 13] and her mother have moved from their cramped basement apartment. When Mrs. Gaikis is offered her original job back as restaurant manager at Mosquito Creek Inn, the inn's owner also provides the widow and her daughter an outlying log cabin, once the home of the original foreman for historical Grant Ranch. However, during her first night in the cabin, Hanna has a haunting dream. While researching material for a school assignment, Hanna and Stephen Anderlund [now 13] find artifacts buried beneath the log cabin that only lead to more questions. As the young detectives band...