Alone in her aunt's gift shop How Do I Love Thee? late one evening, Isabella Ripa opens the door to a glamorous woman carrying a birdcage. Isabella is enchanted by the woman's love birds and agrees to take them - at least for the night - until she ca...
Annabelle Andrews’ world is falling apart. Her mother is sick, the class nerd, Leroy Ludlum, has become a permanent attachment, and her friends are treating her as though she has a bad case of head lice. When Leroy tells Annabelle that there’s a ...
When seventh-grade teacher Mildred Pinkerton is found dead before first period, it's another headache for St. Polycarp's beleaguered principal, Father Felix. Especially when two teachers suspect Mildred was murdered. They've got an empty bottle of pi...
Eva Avanti, the new girl in school, desperately needs help. A fortune teller has predicted that great harm will come to her. Determined to learn who is going to hurt her and why, Eva implores amateur sleuth Isabella and her friends Vicki and Lauren t...
A trip to Sicily with a group of teenage girls from St. Hilda's school involves more than chaperoning duties for headmaster Father Felix. He's come to Palermo to right a wrong done by a thief. Since the crime was revealed during confession, Father Fe...
At midnight on July 16th, 1918, Tsar Nicholas Romanov and his family were murdered, thus ending the Russian Empire. Historians believe that a peasant by the name of Rasputin was instrumental in the downfall of the dynasty. Because Nicholas thought th...
Never know what you might overhear... It's 1957 and a killer is roaming about quiet little Honeyspoon, Massachusetts. Mrs. Nancy Peabody can scarcely believe it--except for the body count. Her own neighbor Kate Tringali discovers the first vic...