Sometime toward the end of Leo Thomas' junior year, the tiny college town of Epshire became home to four axe murderers, two of them serial killers. No one could say why, exactly. And no one could make the killing stop. "Sever" is a coming-of-age novella wrapped in a horror story wrapped in a love letter to college, a time when you're supposed to be invincible, a time when you're not supposed to be able to die.

The Owl & Raccoon series combines the raw cop talk of police thrillers with locked room puzzles designed to delight mystery buffs. Now readers can get the first three novellas in the series, all in one volume. In the first novella, The Single Staircase, a baby disappears from a third-floor nursery while her parents sit just a few feet away. In WDYG, Owl & Raccoon race to learn how a teenage girl could have gone missing from a mall restroom while her friends wait just outside the door. And in Not With A Bang, a hostage vanishes from a bus completely surrounded by a SWAT team. The Owl and...