Peter Abrahams

This is the third book in the Echo Falls series for younger readers. In Echo Falls, secrets buried in the past don't always stay there. In the third book in the Agatha Award winning and national bestselling Echo Falls series, Ingrid embarks on her most harrowing adventure yet.

Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she has never experienced before, one ruled by enigmatic codes of honor, ceaseless aggression and absolutely savage violence.

This is the second book in the Echo Falls series for younger readers, finalist for the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Children's/Young Adult Fiction. In this sequel to Down the Rabbit Hole a clever young girl learns that mysterious forces are at work in her town -- and exposing them could put her life in jeopardy.

Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia's death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he's dying—and a morbid curiosity about how he'll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper's system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wife—and by calling the mistake to the attention of the surprised obit writer, Roy has inadvertently sealed an innocent man's doom.