Dooley Takes the Fall

The guy was dead. There was no question about that. Dooley saw him fall from the bridge and hit the pavement, but had the kid jumped or was he pushed? Dooley thought he had caught a glimpse of a someone at the end of the bridge just as the kid went over, but was that just a shadow? Dooley had already been in too much trouble to be getting involved in something like this. Dooley had a "past" and the truth was...Dooley wasn't exactly where he was supposed to be. Would anyone believe he had no part in this?

Taken

By Chris Jordan

It is every parent’s nightmare. Their child disappears before their very eyes. One minute he’s there, the next he is not. Opening the door to her home, hoping against hope that her son is there Kate Bickford comes face to face with her son’s abductor. He wants all her money and if she doesn’t follow “the method” the results will be gruesome. Yet, even if she follows the abductors instructions is there any guarantee she will get her son back? And then there’s the frightening little detail that she really doesn’t have much money- and the fact that this seems to be about more than money.

Torn to Pieces

By Margot McDonnell

Anne has always thought her Mom is a little quirky. When her Mom doesn’t come home from one of her long business trips Anne isn’t too surprised. When a few days go by, though Anne knows something is wrong. The phone is disconnected at the hotel her Mother said she would be staying at and a strange man is leaving threatening messages on her answering machine. Why has her Mother always been so mysterious about where she is going ? Why has she never gotten a cell phone so Anne can reach her? Anne’s “grandparents” share her concern and give her a sealed envelope from her Mother that reveals all her Mom’s secrets - secrets that put Anne in great danger and reveal that nothing is as it seems.

My Father's Son

By Terri Fields

Kevin Windor’s life is pretty routine, going to school, playing basketball, trying to ask the girl of his dreams out…but when news of a serial killer flashes across the evening news Kevin is stunned to see his father’s face looking out at him. This has to be wrong! But…what if it’s not? Why won’t his father see him when he visits the jail? What does he do about the people who think “like father, like son”? Mostly, what does he do if his father really committed these savage crimes?