Trudell Becket by Dorothy St. James

For the past thirteen years, I’ve done the same thing every weekday morning. I’d get up, stretch a little, eat a small breakfast of eggs and toast, and then walk to work. I’m the assistant librarian at the public library in the small town of Cypress, South Carolina....

Rachel Ryder by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

Being a female detective in Chicago is no walk in the park. In my time as an LEO, that’s professional speak for law enforcement officer, I’ve worked over 100 homicides, countless thefts, aggravated assaults, and God only knew how many rapes. I’ve worked more major...

Sienna Murray by Sarah Fox

My name is Sienna Murray. I’m a high school senior and I live in Wildwood Cove on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s a cute town about half an hour from Port Angeles, and my favorite thing about it is the beach. I love living by the ocean! Next year I’ll be off to college,...

Megan Stanford by Linda Rawlins

Hurricane Sandy hit the United States, first landing in New Jersey on October 29, 2012. It was the deadliest hurricane that year from the Caribbean up through Canada. My grandmother, Rose Stanford, practically had to be dragged from her hundred-year-old Victorian...

Gemma Doyle by Vicki Delany

“I am not a consulting detective.” I don’t want to be a consulting detective. All I want is to be a bookstore owner, and to sell books and other merchandise at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium in West London, Massachusetts. But somehow word has spread and I...

Hope Taylor by Laura Jensen Walker

I’m so excited! (Honestly? A little bit nervous too.) Today I start my new job. And not just a new job; also a new town. New church. New home. Lots of changes. A fresh start. One that will be good for me after the pain and heartbreak of the past couple years. I...