Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex--and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about a place known as the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets.

Terrible things happen when Mr. Dark and his Pandemonium Carnival come to town.

"In David Housewright's next hardboiled mystery Something Wicked, Rushmore McKenzie, who promised to retire after his last nearly-fatal case, gets talked into doing an old friend a favor involving a castle, a family fighting over an inheritance, and at least one mysterious death. Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him first a millionaire and then a retiree. Since then, he's been an occasional...

Eleven-year-old Stanley Buggles, happily anticipating a long summer vacation in the house he inherits from his great-uncle, discovers, soon after arriving in the seemingly peaceful village of Crampton Rock, that along with the house he has also inherited some sinister neighbors, a talking stuffed fish, and a host of mysteries surrounding his great-uncle's death.

An army of dead pirates is out to find Stanley Buggles and retrieve the precious key to the Silver Casket, but Stanley and his friends are determined to keep the casket closed at any cost.

With a werewolf on the loose, a pirate doing anything he can to capitalize on the nearby gold mine, and the pike that lives in the glass case in his house is speaking to him in riddles, Stanley Buggles is nervous.