Mystery School

A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows. A first novel.

When star athlete, Nick Borelli, collapses during a game, everyone is shocked by his sudden death. A few weeks later, when toxicology reports reveal that he died of a lethal dose of caffeine, a murder investigation begins. Veteran teacher and amateur sleuth, Michael Bishop, decides to help the authorities in their search for the killer. Not much is known about Borelli since he had only recently transferred to Holy Trinity High School from the prestigious Dunhill Academy. Why had he left? Who would want Borelli dead? Bishop must consider a number of suspects including Nick’s basketball ...

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City—and a lot of strange happenings. The Bailey School Kids take it upon themselves to investigate.

"TRUE BLOOD and TWILIGHT, anyone?" 🔥Prepare for an unforgettable journey into the supernatural saga by New York Times, USA TODAY, and Amazon Top-15 bestseller Tamara Rose Blodgett🔥 What Readers are Saying: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A Must Read..." ~ Susan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Heart-stopping action from beginning to end." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This series just keeps getting better!" 💔 Meet Adi, Slash, and Jenni: Adi and Slash find themselves on a collision course with danger as they fight to uncover hidden truths and protect their loved ones. Meanwhile, Jenni embarks on a perilous quest to find ...

After her high school graduation in 1960, Ginny Drummond left her small town in Iowa, vowing never to return. Years later, though, she attends her 50th class reunion -- an event with life-changing ramifications for her and William Fairchild, the classmate who befriends her. The reunion is momentous for all their classmates because of an anonymous letter and its contents promising riches to the last surviving member of their class. Ginny and William initially believe the letter to be a joke, but things soon turn deadly because someone will stop at nothing to be the last in the class.

Imagine the hottest rock star on the planet. Do you see the girl next to him, the one teaching him to play guitar? Yeah. That’s Aria. Aria knows that the new guy’s picking up the guitar fast. She knows he wants to start a garage band after school. And she knows he can sing. Man, can he sing. Senior year’s rocking. Until Aria figures out the true identity of the hot new guy…He’s Sax Grayson. Freaking Sax Grayson! She’s dating a multi-platinum artist. She’s kissing a Grammy-award winning singer. She’s in a garage band with a rock star!

Avery Lewis has lived in the small town of Clearview her entire life. Besides the high school football game, nothing ever happened on Friday nights. Until that night. On the night of Jimmy Vale’s end of summer party - everything changed. Avery woke up behind a dumpster wrapped up like a taco. Besides being disgusting, she was also dead. What was worse than being dead? The only person who could see her was Clark Daniels. In life - Avery wouldn’t be caught dead with Clark Daniels. In death, she had no other choice. Avery needs Clark’s help to find her killer and to find out what really ...

Heard about the lizard that shoots blood from its eyes? Or the ancient Romans who used pee as mouthwash? Did you know that going on a roller coaster can cure kidney stones? In this compendium of obscure facts listeners will be treated to baffling knowledge they would never learn at school. Broken into chapters including geography, space, and history, a team of experts has scoured the world to find the silliest and most pointless facts that it has to offer.

Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over. With all the freedom their precollege summer program provides and no one on their tail, the only mystery they need to solve, once and for all, is what they are to each other. But upon their arrival at Oxford, Charlotte is immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents befell the theater program at Oxford last year, culminating in a young woman going missing on the night of a major performance.

From a new coach's flagrant racism to a teammate's endless sabotage, best friends Andi Carillo and Jeff Michaels start basketball season mired in controversy. To make matters worse, the local media smells more than one juicy story. Will Andi and Jeff be able to help each other power through and find a way to put both their teams back on track?

Police detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the dead call girl. It was someone from her past, a woman who protected her on the streets of New York - and who betrayed her. Mallory also recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. It happened 21 years ago, when Mallory was a child. Now - whether it's the work of a copycat killer or a serial murderer - it has happened again. Kathleen Mallory's past has finally caught up with her.

After all these years, Maya and Sandra have mixed feelings about seeing their high school classmates, but in one sense the evening promises to be something of a red carpet event. A shy wallflower in school, Alyssa Turner has blossomed into an Oscar-nominated actress—and she's coming to the reunion. To their surprise, before the event, Alyssa contacts Maya and Sandra. She's going to be playing a private eye and would like to hear about their experiences. When they meet, she confides she was bullied in school by cheerleader Tawny Bryce and her mean girls clique.

Ruby has a problem… …and it’s more than her pet dragon and hunky boyfriend can help her solve. Six months ago, she discovered she was a witch. Great huh? But with magic comes trouble, especially living in a (mostly) unmagical world. Ruby’s magic makes her a homing beacon for all magical creatures. They come to her—sometimes in the middle of her college lectures—asking for help to be returned home. Most of these creatures mean no harm, but when a witch with more magical skill than Ruby hunts her down, trying to rid magic from this realm, Ruby turns to her friends for help. ...

Kim Douglas’ life is in the pits when she loses her corporate job and unfaithful husband at the same time. On a lark, she accepts an instructor position at Good Acres summer camp, where she was both a camper and a counselor in her youth. Good Acres holds wonderful memories for her. The thought of being back in nature away from her current problems is appealing as is re-connecting with the handsome Camp Director and high-school friend, Paul. Little does she suspect that this summer will create different memories that center around a disturbed camper’s revenge and the murders of former ...

After a tumultuous marriage, Mary Wilson is happy in her uncomplicated life, focusing on her twelve-year-old son. She’s always been content with her little family - but then she finds an old postcard that throws her whole past into question... When an invitation arrives for her high school reunion, Mary jumps at the chance of a distraction from the shock discovery, and meeting her old classmate April feels like a gift. Despite barely remembering April, Mary throws herself into the new friendship and finds her previously quiet social life reinvigorated.

When substitute teacher Zarand Szilard is awakened by a last-minute call to cover Ms. Salas’s classes at Stony Estancia High School, his gut alerts him to expect trouble. By the first period, his worst fear materializes: a student discovers Ms. Salas’s lifeless body. Zarand’s intuition tells him it’s murder. As a substitute, he has no standing with the school or the police. Regardless, he uncovers plenty of motives. Ms. Salas investigated college admission fraud at the high school. She solicited harassment complaints against the principal. She knew about the infant grave discovered ...

Although class may no longer be in session, the hallways of this rural Iowa schoolhouse are far from empty. Unexplained phenomena such as phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, shadow figures, and even full-bodied apparitions lurk within. Join Richard Estep of TV's Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, and Haunted Case Files, as he and a small team of paranormal investigators seek to uncover the truth behind the haunting, and find out just why Farrar Elementary is said to be one of the world's most haunted schools.

Madeline Dare has traded in the drudgery of life in backwoods Syracuse, New York, for work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Behind the ornate gates of the academy, she finds a disturbing realm where students and teachers must follow the dean's bizarre therapies.

Disbarred as an attorney in upper New York State, Donald Peter Corbett sneaks off in shame to Bogalusa, Louisiana to start a new life where no one knows about his humiliating past. He befriends Stuart Kidd, a neighbor who is in high school and needs some advice on bullying and girls. One of Stuart's teachers is a dark-haired beauty who seems fascinated by this wise but mysterious stranger who won't disclose any details about his life before he arrived in Louisiana. Romance is a distinct possibility but may be doomed. Past secrets have an uncanny knack of extracting their revenge at the ...

One day, after fishing on the pier at Hamilton Island in 1934, 13 year-old Walt Jenkins saw two men load a body into the back of a Model-T Ice Truck. He ran away, but left behind his Bucket of Fish. When he returned later, the Bucket of Fish was gone! Walt and his friend George Bailey (GB) set out to solve the mystery. The boys soon find themselves tracking down bootleggers, a crooked policeman and a hired killer. Their detective work involves Walt pedaling hard with GB on the handlebars, George Bailey shining a killer’s shoes for 5 cents and his girlfriend Sharon disguised as a 7 year-...