The scandalous death of Lixie Miller's husband has forced her to flee to Lordsburg, New Mexico. All she wanted to do at first was crawl in a hole and hide. But after a few months of dull routine, her safe hole is beginning to feel like her burial place. Then an interesting attorney comes from Santa Fe just to meet her--and leaves just as quickly as he came. And others need her help, including a hurt Indian girl. Suddenly Lixie has a purpose, but the...

In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it's now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplainable murder of an elderly neighbour puts her on guard against two-footed killers. Does the answer lie in the woods? In the alleys of the Nickel Capital? Or in the black rock moonscape of an ecological disaster...

In the third Belle Palmer mystery, Belle takes her friend and employee on a snowshoe trek. Miriam MacDonald brings her spoiled mini-poodle, a gift from investment broker boyfriend, who promises huge returns on her life savings. Later that week, Miriam discovers Elphinstone bludgeoned to death in his condo. Although Miriam's fingerprints alone are found on the Inuit sculpture murder weapon, the collapse of Elphinstone's empire has ruined hundreds of...

Book 2 of The Bells of Lowell. The mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, beckons Arabella Newberry when she decides to flee the life of the Shakers. There she finds the independence she seeks and a greater purpose as she works for educational reform. But Lowell, plagued by ethnic strife, seems no longer a safe haven but rather a danger when several girls go missing. As rumors and conflict invade the industry of the mill, Arabella struggles with her...

Kiyo, a genius but introverted middle school student, hates going to school and has trouble making friends_ until one day Zatch comes crashing through his window! Zatch is a present from Kiyo's father, who saved the little tot on an archeological dig.

It's Sunday. Zatch begged and begged, so finally Kiyo agreed to take him and Suzy to the botanical garden. Zatch and Suzy are happily romping about, when they meet Ivy, the woman who manages the botanical garden.

One morning, Kiyo wakes to find that he can suddenly read a third spell from the Red Spell Book! Zatch, frustrated that he is thus far still small and relatively powerless, is eager to find out if the new spell will make him stronger!

While Sherry and Brago try to wrench the red spell book from Kiyo, a hooded intruder steps across the threshold of the house, and into the hallway where Zatch stands listening!

A news report comes in - a bank is being robbed, and Kiyo's only ally from school, Suzy, is one of the hostages! Kiyo thinks he has just the plan to take down the ice-spell wielding bank robber, Hosokawa. It's going to be an icy hot battle!