The First Murder
When Mary Jane Bennett is found dead in her bed— alone, strangled by her own scarf, and with every door in the house locked — the medical examiner rules her death accidental, the result of a sex game gone horribly awry. State police decline to investigate further, but Queensbridge Police Chief Caleb Crane doesn’t buy for a minute that his good friend died this way, so he undertakes his own investigation. Facing town councilors afraid of bad publicity, an angry medical examiner, and his own personal demons, he labors to solve what he believes is the first-ever murder in his pastoral Berkshire Hills village. Complicating things: the list of suspects includes some of the people to whom he is closest — including his own wife.
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Detective Bears and Friends
The third volume in my picture book series is Detective Bear and Friends. A fun rhyming scheme and whimsical illustrations tell about the different names some animals groupings are called. Towers of giraffes? Bloats of hippos? Adult readers will also get a kick out of this book!
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Pirate Ships and Shooting Stars
Whether on a sunny day or in blackest night, the sky holds wonderful things to see and explore. Use your imagination when reading Pirate Ships and Shooting Stars and in the bright blue sky you may see acrobats in a circus tent, and find Orion the hunter and Taurus the bull in the stars!
I find it easy to remember the name of these cumulus clouds. They ac-cumul-ate the water drops! Tell me what you see in them!
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Once in a Full Moon
5-star rated!
Once a month a full moon rises in the night sky. But every time it does, this big gleaming circle has a different name! From January’s Wolf Moon to June’s Strawberry Moon to the Harvest Moon of September, in lively rhyme Once in a Full Moon tells the stories behind this monthly visitor, many of which come from Native American tradition. Richly colored full-page pictures illustrate the story that teaches both kids – and their adult readers – the reasons behind different names for the brilliant ball in the sky.
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