Will Lane's mother had just shared with him some exciting and yet disturbing news. He was going to be spending the summer with his grandparents. He loved to visit his grandparents, but he had never spent even one night with them. They lived 40 miles from him out in the country on a farm. Will had spent all nine years of his life right in the middle of the city. He did not know, and didn't want to know anything about the farm. He loved his grandparents, but he was quite sure there was nothing for him to do on the farm. He was well aware that his grandparents did not even have cable television...

ONE CORPSE, SIX SUSPECTS, ZERO ARRESTs, and sixty days until the election of sheriff. An election, if you believe the townspeople, Morris James has no chance of winning. When Martha James Hoffman is poisoned by a little known deadly plant while attending a James family reunion, the burden of solving the case falls on her estranged nephew Morris James. Sheriff Morris James quickly realizes that everyone at the reunion is a suspect, because they all hated aunt Martha with a passion.

CHARLIE MAJORS PUT HIMSELF IN A BIND when he blurted out in class that there was a ghost in Fowler's Woods. Now half of the class is agreeing with bully Delmar Weeks that the voice Charlie is hearing is in his head. Johnny Moss is the only other person that has heard the noise that sounds like a young girl screaming for help, and he is beginning to wonder if he really heard it. Kimberlee North, one of Charlie's best friends, and a classmate, tutors Charlie every afternoon after school. She knows and Charlie knows that without her help he is never going to learn math. She also knows it is...