Henry Carter Hull

Detective Shane Scully reports to a Hollywood mansion, the scene of a gruesome murder twenty-five years earlier, to find three dead prostitutes in what his colleagues believe is an open and shut case, but Scully has his doubts and soon uncovers a link between the killings and the mansion's bloody past.

Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succombing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.

For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now. Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.

Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.

It Was Nothing Short of Shocking! Heather Sunshine" Conway was a respectable, small-town widow cheerfully waiting tables to make ends meet. Her brother-in-law, single father Lucas Drury, was a scandalous celebrity -- the Shadowmaster. Only their shared desperation over Lucas's runaway son could have plunged them into a night of dangerously explosive desire ... Yet Heather sowed hope in Lucas's haunted soul. And, during the darkness of night and the...

CIA agent Wyman Ford is sent to Cambodia to locate the source of some radioactive gemstones--a mission that has links to a young woman's search for a meteorite she saw streak through the sky in Maine, and the murder of a researcher at the National Propulsion Facility who discovered gamma rays originating from Mars.