Monkey Mystery

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic. An acclaimed journalist takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost...

Mike Walsh and his cousin Kate Hopkins are excited to spend a summer night at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. Before the game, they explore a special exhibit about Gene Autry, the famous singing cowboy and original owner of the Los Angeles Angels. One display features a priceless gold record of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” But in the ninth inning, disaster strikes when the Angels give up a crushing grand slam. Fans wave their fuzzy “Rumble Monkeys” to spark a rally, until chaos erupts when a real monkey races onto the field, dodging players and even stealing a bat.

It’s spring, and all the baby animals are being born—a perfect time to visit the zoo. The Aldens and their friends are taking pictures there for a photo contest. But when cameras go missing and a girl is accused of cheating, the Boxcar Children must find out just who is monkeying with the contest!

When Roma discovers a golden leaf-eating monkey in her school grounds, she can't believe it. Not only is it the rarest monkey in all of India, but its home is hundreds of miles away. What is it doing here? If Roma can return the monkey to Darjeeling and discover its secret habitat, she can prove once and for all that she is an exceptional scientist and worthy of a place at medical school. But as she sets off on her quest, Roma gets swept into a daring jungle adventure featuring bandits, two English children, tigers and a mysterious magical jewel called the Snakestone.

Two mysteries set in seventh-century China featuring Judge Dee, "a great detective in the noblest tradition . . . perceptive [and] ever fascinating."—The New York Times The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger," based on a...

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend’s garage. But he’s a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a Chrysler, then took down four cops, Charlie’s been running hard through the sprawling sleaze of central Florida. And to make matters worse, he’s holding on to some crooked paperwork that a lot of people would like to take off his hands. Now, with his boss disappeared and his friends dropping like flies, Charlie has got his work cut out just to survive.

NOBODY COUNTS THE MAN IN THE MASK. In the lantern-lit river town of Hoi An, Vietnam, a man dies at the heart of the night market — four thousand witnesses, and the only thing every version of the story agrees on is a monkey. A Monkey King: one of the costumed performers who work the crowds every night, gold mask, red robes, identical at ten paces. The perfect disguise isn't hiding. It's being watched all evening and never once seen. Jack Selden knows something about that. Four months in town, the American expat has finally become part of the scenery — which is exactly why a careful man ...

The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of...

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI This follow-up to Jeffery Deaver’s massive bestseller The Bone Collector (also a feature film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington) is a “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury...

The head of ranch security and his first lieutenant, Drover, are finishing up an exhausting morning of patrols when a mysterious caravan of trucks rumbles past headquarters. Going in for a closer look, Hank the Cowdog apprehends a large red box bearing a mysterious label: "WARNING! MONKEY! DO NOT OPEN THIS BOX!"

Slithering Secrets, Scaly Suspects, and a Killer on the Loose! London, 1898: Chaos strikes the London Zoo when a giant cobra escapes its cage, killing a rhesus monkey and throwing the staff into a frenzy. Dr. Watson’s old schoolmate—a trailblazing anti-venom researcher—is thrust into the scandal. With his reputation on the line and suspicions mounting, Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James are called in to untangle the mystery. But the case takes a deadly twist when Lucy discovers the escaped cobra lurking in the researcher’s office—next to the lifeless body of the man who reported the ...

A criminal mastermind. A detective haunted by doubt. A city on the brink. In Shock the Monkey, author James Capper spins a thrilling tale of justice, deception, and a mysterious figure known only as "The Monkey"—a legendary thief with a reputation for vanishing without a trace. When a new string of high-profile heists mirrors a decades-old case, Detective Ian Fisk is forced to confront a chilling possibility: the man already imprisoned for the crimes may be innocent… or the true mastermind may still be at large.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes Monkey Trouble, The Zombie Project, and The Great Turkey Heist.

The Monkey's Paw of Essex A new Sherlock Holmes story A mysterious death. A cursed relic. The master detective on the trail of the truth. London, 1890: On a foggy November day, Sherlock Holmes receives a visit from Miss Emma Doyle, housekeeper at Ashcroft Manor in Essex. She reports a mysterious incident: Sir Charles Ashcroft was found dead in his bed – allegedly dying of fear of a cursed monkey paw that he had recently received from an old friend. But something about the story doesn't add up. Sir Charles, who was known for his rationality, showed no signs of panic – on the contrary, ...

Hank learns about a tool thief on the loose who uses a monkey to help him do his dirty work. And before long, Hank finds himself face-to-face with the pilfering primate! Can Hank help to stop the criminals in their tracks, or will the crooks make a monkey out of the Head of Ranch Security?

When Detective Douvita Bennett discovers a bizarre calling card—a plastic monkey lodged in a murder victim's ear canal—she's thrust into a deadly game with a vigilante targeting witnesses who refused to testify. As more bodies appear, each marked with a monkey posed in the ancient "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" warning, Bennett uncovers a chilling pattern: five victims, five monkeys, five witnesses who chose silence. The investigation leads to someone with a disturbing connection to Bennett's past.

Scientists who specialize in biology are supposed to be rational. Devout Christians are supposed to be loving and forgiving. In July 1925, they both failed. That was the summer when John Scopes was put on trial in Tennessee for teaching about human evolution. Every major newspaper in America carried the story. When proponents of both sides of the battle ended up dead, Dr. Tabitha, a scientist and a believer, was called in. Was the battle worth killing your opponents? Some people thought so. The future of the nation was at stake. Would America be God-fearing? Or God forsaken? Or could ...

Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey sighting in her yard and the bone chilling middle-of-the-night fright fest at the strangely vacant house next door. When Barb talks her two friends into some seemingly innocent Charlie's Angels-like sleuthing, they stumble upon way more than they bargained for and uncover a piece of neighborhood history that certain people would kill to keep on the cutting room floor.

Recipe included in each story! In the fourth bite of the Emory Bing series, Emory and Pickle head to the upper crust suburb of Sweetieville to find another cousin. This Bing has a dark secret he doesn't want them to know. A butcher by trade, he has some tricks up his sleeve they aren't expecting. Finding themselves in imminent danger, Emory and Pickle must work quickly to obtain the next recipe. The women will have to work together to find a solution before their cousin commits a dastardly deed. Will they be able to unravel this mystery before becoming tomorrow's chops? Link to a BONUS ...

New York City in the 1920s. The Roaring Twenties. Glitz and glamor on the surface. Murder and scandal below. And it all came crashing down. This second collection of the De. Tabitha mysteries includes: Created He Them: The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 tore the country apart. Feeling ran high. People died. Upon the Wings of the Wind: Charles Lindburg flew from New York to Paris …alone. His success was worth millions. More than enough to kill for. Where Your Treasure Is: In October 1929, the Roaring Twenties came crashing down. Some deaths were suicides. Others were not. All three books in ...