Mystery School

When an unexpected death occurs in the teachers’ lunchroom, the school’s maintenance man is the obvious suspect, but Michael Bishop has his doubts. He quickly realizes that several people had the opportunity and the motive to commit this heinous act, but who had the means? As the investigation unfolds, one of the administrators is struck down by a rare illness, and another is victimized by a stalker. Bishop must deal with rumors of a past affair with a former student whose daughter is the voluptuous assistant principal, Lulu Pitts. In his classroom, Bishop’s students discuss the moral...

Amanda Clarke thinks of herself as perfectly ordinary in every way. Just a small-town girl who serves breakfast all day in a little diner nestled next to the highway, nothing but dairy farms for miles around. She fits in there. But then an old woman she never met dies, and Amanda was named in her will.

There's a Black Mamba loose on Hamilton Island and George Bailey Associates Detectives are on the case. This time it's Sharon's turn to tell the story. The team now have George Bailey's old Model T Ice Truck to use in tracking down Margie the Mamba. Fans of the earlier George Bailey books will have fun as they follow George Bailey, Walt, Henry Lido and, of course, Sharon. The story is another fast paced search for the dangerous snake --- and a dangerous human.

When a wealthy New York philanthropist pays top dollar for a private four-day ziti workshop, Nell Valenti wants everyone at the Villa Orlandini Cooking School focused on the task at hand. But complications abound when Nell’s boyfriend, Pete Orlandini, rushes to Rome for an unexpected business trip; Chef Orlandini is more preoccupied with a potential spot on an American cooking show than with preparing for the workshop; and an uninvited woman sneaks into the villa to inspect Pete’s olive grove.

Something’s rotten in Apple country! Hildy Biddle is a high school reporter eager to stand up for the truth. She’s just waiting for a chance to prove herself as a journalist, and yearning for a big story. The trouble is, the town’s biggest story stars...a ghost. Not a very easy interview! This ghost has the town in a tizzy, and the local paper is playing up people’s fears with shocking headlines of eerie happenings and ghostly sightings. Hildy’s determined to discover what’s really going on, but her desire to uncover the truth is making some people awfully nervous.

Broken. Scattered. But not defeated. The spy is gone but the cost has been high - the rebels at Cimmeria Academy have lost their leader and Carter West is missing. Nathaniel can taste victory. But Allie and the other survivors aren't done yet. First they have to get Carter back. Then they plan to make Nathaniel pay. One way or another - the game must end.

Joining The Royals was never supposed to be this complicated. My parents have been hiding something from me—something big. And it might just cost me my life. Everything that I know is a lie. We have one final mission before we graduate, but nothing is ever as simple as it seems. I’m being followed, and even the guys can’t protect me from what’s coming. I can run, but I can’t hide. Blood will be spilled. I just hope I’m strong enough protect my team. The Perfect Lie is book 3 in the Spy Academy: The Royals Series. This is a complete, full length, 80k+ word novel. It is a slow ...

The life of veteran English teacher Michael Bishop takes an unexpected turn when one of his students opens a trap door in the auditorium stage and discovers the body of a recently hired maintenance man. Bishop determines that what appears to be an accident is nothing short of coldblooded murder. Very little is known about the victim. Who could have wanted to kill him and why? In the dead man’s wallet is a piece of paper with “Avignon 1868” written on it. Is that the key to solving the mystery or is it a meaningless distraction? As Bishop searches for answers, Holy Trinity High School ...

Graysen Foxx is no stranger to the mysteries hidden in Ordinary Elementary—the bat-filled tunnels, the secret passageways, the underground chambers, and the sticky spiderwebs—and he’s on the hunt for a creepy old painting that will guarantee his victory in the school’s Halloween room contest. But finding and claiming the painting is only the beginning of a wild adventure filled with puzzles that will put Graysen’s treasure-hunting skills to the test. When Graysen finds a mysterious symbol on the back of a dusty spelling bee medal, the discovery spreads like creamy peanut butter.

Some shadows are hard to shake. And someone has a mean sense of humor. And that person is springing nasty pranks around town. Who and why? And, more importantly, how can Keely Turner and Burke Sloan, the newest sheriff's deputy, stop the malicious prankster before someone gets hurt badly?

Cimmeria Academy's solid walls have protected the children of the British elite for centuries. But now those walls are beginning to crumble. And if they fall, Allie Sheridan knows nothing can save her. A powerful and dangerous secret society - one that controls not just the school but the government, the media, and corporations - is turning on itself. Allie's grandmother still clings to power but everyone knows her time at the top is ending. Next in line is Nathaniel, who killed Allie's friends. If he takes over, all is lost.

Discover a Heartwarming Christmas story about the joy of Giving Abby, her little brother Sam, mom, and dad didn't realize this Christmas was going to turn out to be an adventure. It was something they would never forget. Creating homemade gifts for family and friends was what it was all about. This included baking Christmas cookies and sharing them with everyone. The holiday treats were going to be extra special this year. They would bake cookies from recipes her grandma had made as a child with Abby’s great-grandmother long ago. That made this year even more exciting. Go along with Abby ...

"My name is Ryuzaki Luca, half an angel, half a demon. Perhaps that makes me a full human. I am a first year at the prestigious Kuzusaki High school, a nationally famous school that hides a mystery I have sworn to unravel; a mystery of the day my city burned, and ash fell like snow. In the meantime, my grades take precedence over romance in order to maintain my scholarship, but I seem to keep running into women one after another. One might even think I’m gathering some sort of harem with the ecchi situations I keep getting caught up in, and women I end up helping".

Shannon Reed did not want to be a teacher, but now, after twenty years of working with children from preschool to college, there’s nothing she’d rather be. “With an irresistible combination of compassion, humor, and engaged storytelling” (Shelf Awareness), her essays illuminate the highs and lows of a job located at the intersection of youth and wisdom.

The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Priory School tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England.

All Margie Majors ever wanted was the mythical American dream she was taught to want: a hard-working husband, a house in a place that had neighborhood BBQs, a white picket fence, two kids, and a dog. Instead, she got “destiny.” Hers was to be a plus-sized, day-drinking, foul-mouthed, bisexual, retired vampire slayer with crushing debt and no idea what to do with the rest of her life.

When seventh-grade teacher Mildred Pinkerton is found dead before first period, it's another headache for St. Polycarp's beleaguered principal, Father Felix. Especially when two teachers suspect Mildred was murdered. They've got an empty bottle of pills and a motive: Miss Pinkerton was suspicious of something - or someone - rotten at the school. The victim had requested a meeting to discuss an important matter. Instead, she ended up face down in her morning coffee. Searching for clues, Julia Hopwood and Amelia Johnston try to connect a series of strange events.

I did the impossible. I hacked Spy School. Except it was a complete accident. When Spy School shows up at my doorstep, I know I’m in trouble. Then they kidnap me for my ‘safety.’ I’m just a seventeen-year-old girl with blue hair. How did I end up here? This is a 50k word novella. It is a completed story with a happy ending. Hacked is a stand-alone story, though it’s set in a world with many other books. It is a slow burn, fast paced, action packed, clean, YA, mystery, spy romance. *This work was previously published with a different cover. It has been reedited, and revamped. I ...

Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesn’t let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher send her spiraling and bring back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse.

Dark Space #1 Is your substitute teacher... human? Kayla Baines is pretty sure Mr. Asher isn’t. He doesn’t blink. He moves like he’s gliding. And somehow, he knows everything about her class before anyone says a word. At first, Kayla thinks she’s imagining things. But then the pop quizzes start grading themselves, kids begin acting strange, and permission slips appear out of nowhere with her mom’s signature. Something is seriously wrong. With the help of her best friend Jaden and a mysterious girl named Rowan, Kayla discovers a secret underground lab, a network of android ...