SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST MURDERS: PART II
Cassidy and her friend get lost on a road in the middle of nowhere in Utah. Suddenly the rocks seem to be speaking to them. A boy in her class has a crush on Carissa. But it gets to be too much when he insists on controlling her life. Nicki's teacher tells her to keep a dream diary. She never guesses she'll meet the dude who haunts her nightmares --- for real.
The southwest is a land of infinite deserts, vistas, and mountains. But it's also packed with surprises --- and endless mystery.
SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST MURDERS: PART I
A sandstorm is just a sandstorm, right? May learns otherwise when she encounters the lady in white. Nine and her best friend are planning to spend the summer at an archaeological dig. They are shocked when a murderer on the site has other ideas. Beverly can't decide whether to go up and down the spiral staircase in the chapel she's discovered. Either way means death. Eve wonders why her boyfriend leaps out of the car after their date and dashes up onto the roof with her father to look at the sky. She finds that her fate is written in the stars.
MURDER IN YELLOWSTONE PARK: PART II
Chelsea Yates can't understand why no one else lives on the island in the middle of a Montana lake where she takes up residence for a summer. When she finds out why, it's too late. Sheila sleepwalks at night. She wakes up unexpectedly to overhear two murderers planning their next kill. Bery's parents exile her to Montana for acting up during a party at finishing school. It's a worse punishment than they can imagine. a ghost is waiting for Beryl. Margaret keeps hearing a girl's voice calling to her from outside her window. The voice emanates from a treacherous nearby waterfall. Montana may not have many people. But it's certainly populated with more hobgobblins than the heroines of these four young adult horror and murder mystery novels would ever want to meet in Murder in Yellowsotne Park: Part 2.
MURDER IN YELLOWSTONE PARK: PART I
Darcy Devon is fleeing her boyfriend by coming to Yellowstone Park. But she hasn't bet on a killer in the park out to get her. Jackie comes barreling into Wyoming in her Ferrari. But she doesn't reckon on the mystery behind the ferry when she crashes into a tree by the banks of the Snake River. The ferryman wants her dead. Irene is moving west because her father is becoming a park rnager at Yellowstone. But someone is letting the grizzlies out of their cages in West Yellowstone. Roxie wins a contest on the back of a cereal box and gets a free trip to Jackson Hole. Now she gets to meet her dream pen pal for real. All these teenage heroines face hidden perils related to the harsh scenery of the Northern Rockies and the dangerous flora and fauna of the region. But what they don't reckon on is the power of evil hidden behind every icicle in this young adult horror and mystery novel collection.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST MURDERS PART 2
Michelle falls into an icy Rocky Mountain lake. A skeletal hand pulls her out. While Belle is surveying a curious carving in Red Rock Canyon, a gun goes off. Louise is saying good-bye to her boyfriend so she can head to Alberta, Canada. He threatens that if she leaves the room she's a dead girl. Doreen sees her boyfriend getting pushed into the falls. A voice on the phone warns her that she knows too much.
Dana's father is offered a job cataloging birds at Mrs. Mayfair's estate in Alberta. It's too good to be true. She befriends an invalid who has bird feathers sprouting from his chest. Millicent's boyfriend disappeared in the Rockies one year ago. The school is being renamed after him. But why does she get a gift from him in the mail?
The Rockies are the strangest mountains in the world. And in these novels, they are getting even stranger.
Dana's father is offered a job cataloging birds at Mrs. Mayfair's estate in Alberta. It's too good to be true. She befriends an invalid who has bird feathers sprouting from his chest. Millicent's boyfriend disappeared in the Rockies one year ago. The school is being renamed after him. But why does she get a gift from him in the mail?
The Rockies are the strangest mountains in the world. And in these novels, they are getting even stranger.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST MURDERS PART 1
Berry takes a school bicycle trip to Sunwapta Falls on the Ice Fields Parkway. A certain face on the totem pole in the parking lot is watching her. Opal is afraid to open her mail. She hasn't gotten a job for the summer. But then she'd better be careful what she wishes for. She might get it. Somebody keeps on calling Connie and asking for Johnnie. They don't believe her when she tells them that Johnnie doesn't live here anymore. They mean deadly business.
Lila gets a haunted Christmas gift. When she moves little people around inside her dollhouse, her friends die. Edith goes to find her cat one morning only to find that he's climbed aboard an RV parked along the street. The door shuts and the thing doesn't stop until she ends up on Spirit Island. Vicki goes to look for her missing boyfriend in Canada at the last place from which he sent a postcard. Instead she finds murder.
Lila gets a haunted Christmas gift. When she moves little people around inside her dollhouse, her friends die. Edith goes to find her cat one morning only to find that he's climbed aboard an RV parked along the street. The door shuts and the thing doesn't stop until she ends up on Spirit Island. Vicki goes to look for her missing boyfriend in Canada at the last place from which he sent a postcard. Instead she finds murder.
MURDER IN ALASKA
Desiree Longfellow pushes her eggs around on her plate one morning as she waits for the police to show up. She's being framed for murder and must escape out the back door when she sees the officers coming to arrest her.
Dora De Paul is on an Alaska cruise with her parents. She snaps a photo of the pretty blue bay with the snowcapped peaks in the background when suddenly a volcano starts to erupt.
A black cloud spreads across the bay, and the passengers must flee ashore. Someone who has it in for her sabotages the cruise ship. Stranded on the shore of Homer, Alaska, what does Dora do?
Dora De Paul is on an Alaska cruise with her parents. She snaps a photo of the pretty blue bay with the snowcapped peaks in the background when suddenly a volcano starts to erupt.
A black cloud spreads across the bay, and the passengers must flee ashore. Someone who has it in for her sabotages the cruise ship. Stranded on the shore of Homer, Alaska, what does Dora do?
CALIFORNIA HORRORS PART II
Joyce can't understand why her boyfriend, Jed, is so intrigued by another girl he meets on the beach --- until she learns that she has certain supernatural advantages. Cheryl picks up the mail at the tenant's house on the shore. She wonders why nobody ever sees him, especially when her cat is too scared to go near the house.
Alexandra Banks goes for a gondola ride in San Diego only to find herself arriving in Venice at the time of the Middle Ages. They condemn her to death as a witch. Shawna escapes to a cabin in Yosemite. She's far away from all her enemies. Yet in a place where she knows no one, somebody seems to be gunning for her.
Alexandra Banks goes for a gondola ride in San Diego only to find herself arriving in Venice at the time of the Middle Ages. They condemn her to death as a witch. Shawna escapes to a cabin in Yosemite. She's far away from all her enemies. Yet in a place where she knows no one, somebody seems to be gunning for her.
CALIFORNIA HORRORS PART I
Gina hears footsteps following her on the beach. It creeps her out, especially when she remembers that this was how her famous actress mother got killed only a few years before. Charlene's father decides to move the family to an old lighthouse in California. The problem is --- it's haunted.
Misty and her girlfriends all are aghast when their parents divorce at the same time, get remarried, and all get stepsisters --- stepsisters from hell. Merle and her high school class are going on a weekend field trip to the Silver Strand. Her classmates are watching a film in the rec room. They soon disappear into it.
California is supposed to be quite a place. You can count on it to live up to its reputation in California Horrors Part I.
Misty and her girlfriends all are aghast when their parents divorce at the same time, get remarried, and all get stepsisters --- stepsisters from hell. Merle and her high school class are going on a weekend field trip to the Silver Strand. Her classmates are watching a film in the rec room. They soon disappear into it.
California is supposed to be quite a place. You can count on it to live up to its reputation in California Horrors Part I.
HOUSEBOAT MURDERS AND AZ TALES
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Merle thinks she sees a dragon image in a cave at Lake Powell. Gwendolyn tries to explore the room at the top of the stairs that is inhabited by a ghost. Vincentia doesn't know what to do when her ride doesn't show up to drive her home from the train station. She gets into the wrong car. Doreen knows that her fate and her family's is to be decided at 4:00PM that very afternoon. It depends on an envelope that's about to be delivered. Ginger finds herself on a nightmare trip to the Grand Canyon where the members of her student expedition are being killed off one by one. Viv wakes up to hear somebody calling her name. She finds a girl's body in the tub. When she goes for help and comes back, it's not there.
Share the chills and thrills of these heroines when you read Houseboat Murders and AZ Tales.
Merle thinks she sees a dragon image in a cave at Lake Powell. Gwendolyn tries to explore the room at the top of the stairs that is inhabited by a ghost. Vincentia doesn't know what to do when her ride doesn't show up to drive her home from the train station. She gets into the wrong car. Doreen knows that her fate and her family's is to be decided at 4:00PM that very afternoon. It depends on an envelope that's about to be delivered. Ginger finds herself on a nightmare trip to the Grand Canyon where the members of her student expedition are being killed off one by one. Viv wakes up to hear somebody calling her name. She finds a girl's body in the tub. When she goes for help and comes back, it's not there.
Share the chills and thrills of these heroines when you read Houseboat Murders and AZ Tales.
MURDER ON THE SWIM TEAM AND OTHER AZ TALES
Francie must figure out which member of her swim team has it in for her. If she doesn't, she might not make it through the next meet. Joanne finds a skull on top of Mt. Lemmon during her school picnic. but the voice that warns her not to tell anyone else about it means business. Tess can't stand her parents' move from Los Angeles to Tucson so her father can study coyotes up close, but she finds out that the coyotes want to study her.
Karla is amazed at how different Arizona looks than her home back in Virginia yet never more so than when someone rolls boulders down the hill at her in Texas Canyon. CR doesn't remember her name, but someone else remembers her. they stalk her all the way to Hole, Arizona. While standing at her school locker, Diana becomes aware of a boy staring at her. Someone else tells her he's just out of jail on charges of murdering his last girlfriend.
All these heroines have one problem in common. They all find themselves in Arizona, and Arizona is a pretty spooky place.
Karla is amazed at how different Arizona looks than her home back in Virginia yet never more so than when someone rolls boulders down the hill at her in Texas Canyon. CR doesn't remember her name, but someone else remembers her. they stalk her all the way to Hole, Arizona. While standing at her school locker, Diana becomes aware of a boy staring at her. Someone else tells her he's just out of jail on charges of murdering his last girlfriend.
All these heroines have one problem in common. They all find themselves in Arizona, and Arizona is a pretty spooky place.
THE DARK: A COLLECTION
Bianca has seen a grisly murder take place. The housekeeper was killed in cold blood when Bianca was babysitting Little Katie, the rich infant in the neighborhood on Saint Simons Island. She cannot remember the details of that night, though she saw the face of the killer. Two years later her memory is starting to come back. The killer knows that, and he shuts the lights off on her in a movie theater bathroom warning her not to tell on him. What should she do? Her memories are leading her in the direction of the young man she has come to love in the meantime, upon whom she completely depends.
But the choice is increasingly clear --- her love or her life.
DEATH ON THE BACK BAY AND OTHER VA TALES
Leslie goes for a nightmare ride in a kayak on the Back Bay, a ride she'll never forget. Charlene hears her name every time she puts a seashell to her ear. Jemma learns that she should be careful what she wishes for when she tells her boyfriend to "drop dead!" Kate develops a phobia about watches and clocks. They remind her of her dead boyfriend. Cissy is haunted by eyes in the night that watch everything she does. Death on the Back Bay and Other Virginia Stories will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
SAIL ON MY GHOST AND OTHER VA TALES
Denise is haunted by the figurehead of a ship displayed in the Mariner's Museum. Leanne inherits the house of her dreams in Richmond and a fortune to go with it, One catch --- she has to live in it for a year without leaving it once and put up with its resident spooks, Jessie saves a surfer from drowning at Virginia Beach only to find out she wishes she hadn't. Adele learns that she's related to a witch, a witch from Pungo to be exact. Virginia may seem colonial and staid to some. But in these mysteries it's nothing short of spine-tingling.
MURDER IN DIXIE
An orphan in New Orleans, Laura, finds out that people are adopting her for nefarious motives. Angie dreams of fire and wakes up to a blaze in her bedroom. Jan tries to ran away but she can't escape the mysterious fountain at the shopping center in Hilton Head where dead bodies keep turning up.
Mattie had better stay clear of the lighthouse on the island where she lives. A maniac is lying in wait for her there. Emily learns that trees have eyes and they are watching her. Danielle's best asset is her gold hair --- until it turns into a curse. All these girls have one thing in common --- they live in the South, that region of moonlight and magnolia. It's time for Murder in Dixie.
Mattie had better stay clear of the lighthouse on the island where she lives. A maniac is lying in wait for her there. Emily learns that trees have eyes and they are watching her. Danielle's best asset is her gold hair --- until it turns into a curse. All these girls have one thing in common --- they live in the South, that region of moonlight and magnolia. It's time for Murder in Dixie.
MURDER IN FLORIDA AND OTHER STORIES
Swamps, frogs, and mosquitoes, and lots of murder in the air . . . That's Florida for you! The heroine of Murder In Florida cannot go out on the beach without finding a dead body in a beach chair. The main character of Shadow Play must stay away from the boy of her dreams who's also a convicted murderer. In Pool Party the daughter of a bed and breakfast owner must confront a haunted black pool. In The Oldest House Mystery the protagonist is fighting a curse as old as Saint Augustine, Florida itself. Florida always has something scary around the next palm tree.
FIRE AND ICE: A MYSTERY COLLECTION
Acts of nature themselves can seem more than a little supernatural. When Mount Saint Helen's explodes in 1980, a horrible secret is buried with the ashes that haunts the heroine years later. When Yosemite National Park floods one spring, the main character learns secrets about her family's past from the last century that she would rather not find out. And when a girl from back East moves to St. Mary, Montana near Glacier, a record snowfall prevents her from escaping when a strange woman dances and kicks in the snow, coming after her with every avalanche. Fire and Ice both spell FEAR.
MYSTERIES OF THE LOST COAST: THE PACIFIC NW
Behind a bristlecone pine or a redwood in the rain forest, she is watching you. You don't know who she is, but she knows who you are --- and she's after you. You walk on the beach with the waves at your feet, but you think you hear whispering. You look down at your feet. Something moves in the sand. Not far away you see a glass object. You pick it up. It looks like an odd sort of float. But there's a note in it addressed to you. In the Pacific Northwest anything can happen and does in this collection of Linda Cargill's mysteries from the land of driftwood and sneaker waves.
GHOSTS OF THE LOST COAST: THE PACIFIC NW
The rocky coast of Oregon and Washington lends itself to apparitions. Something seems to move in the fog. When you reach it, it's not there. A foghorn sounds. There is no ocean nearby. In Death At The Sanctuary Grill the heroine is plagued by spooks in the haunted restaurant by the sea that her parents open. In Death On The Boardwalk the main character hears people talking and riding bikes on the boardwalk right outside her door. When she looks out the window, they vanish. In Murder At The Chapel a teenage girl discovers a ghost town in the rain forest above the high tide mark. In the Pacific Northwest more than temperatures chill the bones.
MURDER ON THE LOST COAST: THE PACIFIC NW
You've often heard about the perfect place for a murder. Well, what could be more fitting than the misty, foggy, deserted coast of Oregon and Washington? The main character in The Dead Man's Rock Mystery discovers that something suspicious is taking place around the big sea stack facing the beach in front of her house. The girlfriend of The Mysterious Surfer can only wonder what happened to the dude she met at the beach party whom nobody remembered the next day. The protagonist of Murder On London Bridge finds that a school medieval banquet on this coast is a real chill when she is confronted by a creep in armor swinging an ax! And the heroine of the One Perfect Rose Mystery gets swept up in a spine-tingling adventure when a man in a mask holds her and her boyfriend at gun point along the twisty coastal highway at night.
MURDER ON THE NILE
In Murder on the Nile the heroines all have to deal with everything that ancient Egypt can throw at them. One heroine meets Ramses II face to face. A second must deal with the dirty tricks that King Tut has been plotting all these years. Then we have a curse --- you know, the kind that can turn everyone to stone. While perusing the book, the reader feels as if she too must battle these evil demons to keep herself from being dragged back out of the twenty-first century to the land of pharaohs and poisonous asps.
SAINT SIMONS ISLAND: A MYSTERY COLLECTION
Saint Simons Island, Georgia is one of the spookiest places on earth. All you need to do is stand in the graveyard at Christ’s Church. You, too, can see the flickering light among the headstones that chills you in Murder At Midnight Beach. When a vampire-size mos- quito bites you and blood runs down your leg you can be sure it came from the infa- mous swamp where a murder occurred a long time ago. After reading Murder On St. Simons Island you’ll never want to go out at night again.
VAMPIRE GALS
Who’s that gal that only comes out at night? She lives next door, and she’s a knockout! She might be one of the vampires in this collection of Linda Cargill’s best bloodsucker tales. In Never Kiss A Vampire a game of spin the bottle turns into a nightmare. A hurricane washes two creatures of the night ashore in Vampire Blues. A vampire rides a motorcycle in Vampire Gang. Surprising? Not in the world of the beyond that is just behind the next bend in the road.
FIRST SPECIAL COLLECTION: VAMPIRES AT SEA
The more vampires the better! For those who can't get enough, we have a special edition called Vampires At Sea. We have collected a horror tale about vampires who inhabit the lighthouse on St. Simons Island, Georgia, Vampires Ahoy, as well as a tale about bloodsucking creatures on the Pacific Northwest coast, Vampires On Board. We have also included an unpublished preview of the author's only werewolf story, The Beauty And The Beast Chronicles, all under one cover.
Now available in hardback or in a Kindle edition
Now available in hardback or in a Kindle edition
