Ex-undercover cop Phil Broker, working as a wilderness guide, takes three professionals on a canoeing trip that turns tragic when one of the men, writer Hank Sommer, is badly hurt during a freak storm, but Broker becomes suspicious when Sommer, who was on the road to recovery at the hospital, lapses into a coma, and he really begins to suspect foul play when Sommer's accountant is murdered.

An innocent weekend get-together of women friends turns sinister when the group discovers on Monday morning that one of their number has gone missing, a disappearance that places the woman's husband under suspicion and forces two of the women to reckon with personal secrets.

"Traveling to a dangerous archipelago off the coast of California for a one-year residency, photographer Miranda is assaulted by a local who is later found dead, an event that leaves Miranda speculating about the region's wild beauty and the natures of her companions"----

When womanizing Derek Cooper, a Fort Collins, Colo., rancher, is killed by a blow to the head near the start of Sefton's entertaining if flawed fourth knitting mystery (after 2006's A Deadly Yarn), her first in hardcover, for once it looks as if knitter-cum-accountant-cum-sleuth Kelly Flynn, who doesn't know the deceased, won't get involved. But it turns out that one of Kelly's pals is close friends with a prime suspect, Cooper's ex, and Kelly offers...

"Seven teens return to the place where they were cured of their worst fears one year earlier and become entangled in a plot for revenge"--

"Joanna is devastated to find Leo has emerged from deep depression only to fall for neighbor Piper Reynard. Determined to find something to use against the woman who has stolen her life and her true love, Joanna digs into Piper's past, unearthing disturbing secrets."--Provided by publisher.

"If Janelle Tenner wants to avenge her father's death and stop the end of the world, she's going to need to uncover Ben's secrets--and keep from falling in love with him in the process"--

Class brain Bindy Mackenzie has alienated her entire high school but when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, she has to make friends in order to get help.

The night a riot breaks out at the Capitol Theater movie house-during a Mary Pickford picture, no less-you can bet that the Hunsenmeir sisters, Louise and Julia, are nearby. Known locally as Wheezie and Juts, the inimitable, irrepressible, distinctly freethinking sisters and their delightful circle of friends are coming of age in a shifting world-and are determined to understand their place in it. Across town, the well-to-do Chalfonte siblings are...

"Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her--people the law has failed. They've formed an underground network of "helpers," each agreeing to...