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Years have passed since Richard Fletcher was murdered. Although his stepson was convicted of the crime, Irene Kelly isn't so sure.

Investigative reporter Irene Kelly encounters an unexpected blast from the past in Las Pernas--a city where people will kill to keep a secret.

As the race for District Attorney heats up the mudslinging begins, and soon one candidate's son is branded a satanist.

Errol "Handy" White is a man whose past has come back to haunt him. Years ago, Handy left his life as a Los Angeles thief behind, and now lays low in the Twin Cities.

As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes.

Almost-fifteen-year-old psychic investigator Gilda Joyce interns for the summer at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and solves a mystery involving national security.

When ninth-grader Gilda travels to an international piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she finds adventure investigating why Wendy is being haunted and

Fed up by a seemingly endless line of lousy dates with uncouth, mannerless boors, Adele Harris heads back to her hometown to help her "perfect" sister cope with the breakup of her marriage, only to

Maddie Dupree's mother was once the other woman in a love triangle with Mick Hennessy's parents. It ended tragically.

Banker Doug Fanning begins building a massive mansion on land formerly owned by retired teacher Charlotte Graves' grandfather.

A girl named Fall disappears, leaving behind her good-looking and well-liked boyfriend Julius.

Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.

On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park, Akimbo wants to keep the cub.

On a trip to the snake park with his Uncle Peter, Akimbo has an adventure involving a deadly green mamba snake.