Three bodies in a shallow grave on a Connecticut hillside - a man, a woman, a child - and a mottled and decomposed doll. It was a garden of death, planted thirty years before... For Police Chief Rocco Herbert, solving the gruesome murders is the bigg...
It was unspeakable. There was something in the air like high-voltage lightning. That formidable human dynamo, State Senator Bea Wentworth, had just introduced 'the next governor of our state' to the crowd. And he had risen to acknowledge their cheers...
Lyon sailing his hot air balloon, Wobbly II, over Long Island Sound when he sees a small plane go down in the water, he recognizes the plane as belonging to his best friend - its down in seconds, and can't be located by the coast guard. That night he...
The bus Lyon Wentworth, noted children's author, was travelling on was hijacked, and when it becomes clear that someone wants Lyon dead, he begins a search fro the true assasin, with the help of his friend Police Chief Rocco Herbert and Lyon's wife B...
A female racecar driver gets wrapped up in an ice skater’s gruesome murder in this page-turning thriller. Mauve Bridger is climbing out of the frozen lake when the ice breaks beneath her and she falls into the water. She hauls herself back onto the...
A no-nonsense politician and her children’s author husband search for answers to a retirement-home homicide in this gripping small-town murder mystery. Fabian Bunting wheels herself down the hallway of the nursing home, opera glasses clutched in he...
Children’s author Lyon Wentworth races to save his abducted wife, Bea, in this intense small-town thriller. Every Thursday night, Bea Wentworth follows the same routine. She visits the bookshop, the discount store, and the supermarket, and she’s ...
Lyon Wentworth, children's book author turned sleuth, and his State Senator wife, Bea, are only slightly surprised when Lyon's old army buddy, Dalton Turman, turns up at their Connecticut home in a coffin. A notorious practical joker, Dalton can neve...
Charming husband-and-wife sleuthing team Lyon and Bea Wentworth visit the estate of a power-mad manufacturer in this classic manor-house mystery. Children’s book author and occasional sleuth Lyon Wentworth arrives at the Piper estate prepared to co...
Joan Lowery Nixon, president of the Mystery Writers of America, has found 10 well-known writers to craft spellbinding stories for adults who want to read but have undeveloped reading skills. Here are stories with adult themes and interests that chall...
Diff and Holly puzzle over the whereabouts of the plane they saw crash into the lake that turned up, floating, two days later with the pilot shot in the back of the head, and wonder who wanted the pilot dead...
Children’s book author Lyon Wentworth fights to protect a Vietnam veteran accused of a grisly crime in this chilling psychological thriller. They find her by the river, naked, cold -- and dead. Police chief Rocco Herbert recognizes her as the check...
Children’s book author Lyon Wentworth must solve an impossible locked-room murder with a medieval twist -- or risk landing on death row. Lyon Wentworth sprints through the woods, chest heaving, dragging a broadsword behind him. He doesn’t remembe...
Children’s book author Lyon Wentworth and his wife, Bea, investigate a murder from the vantage of a hot-air balloon in this charming seaside thriller. For Lyon Wentworth’s birthday, his wife, Bea, gives him something spectacular: a custom wicker ...
An army deserter returns home to see his dying mother -- and stumbles into a deadly mystery -- in this suspenseful medical thriller. Under enemy fire in Vietnam, Brian Maston had just one impulse: run. And he ran, all right -- out of the war zone, ou...
When a mentally challenged man in possession of deadly secrets is targeted by an assassin, he must fight to survive, in this chilling espionage thriller. Martin Fowler is a determined twenty-eight-year-old who hasn’t let his mental handicap hold hi...
Edgar Award Finalist: A woman contemplates murder when she discovers her husband’s affair in this domestic thriller set off the coast of Maine. Helen Fraser can’t remember who drew the gun, but she does remember coming home hoping her husband wou...