Books with author Barbara Wallace

Book 1 in a Smart, Sassy Cozy Mystery Series Set Outside of Boston. When Sadie McIntyre gives a drunken Marylou Paretsky a ride home on a rainy night, little does she realize it's the last time anyone will see Marylou alive. The following morning, Marylou is found dead at the bottom of her staircase, the victim of foul play. Who killed Marylou? Was it her philandering husband? His lover? Or one of the residents Marylou was blackmailing? In a town where everyone has a secret, the list of suspects is endless.To make matters worse, Sadie is hiding her own secret. One that, if discovered, could shoot her to the top of the list! Can Sadie find Marylou's killer before her secret becomes public? Or will the killer find her first? Author Barbara Wallace is the award-winning author of over twenty romance novels. THE SUBURBS HAVE SECRETS is her cozy mystery debut.

Emily Luccock thought the worst was behind her; she had survived the horrors of Sugar Hill Hall and been reunited with her beloved Aunt and Uncle Twice. Now she is devastated to be left at Mrs. Spilking's Select Academy while her aunt and uncle sail for India. But nothing can top Emily's misery once she spies the dreary school, icy Mrs. Spilking, and, once again, a bowl of tantalizing yet forbidden peppermints! Emily tries to keep her spirits up while counting the days until she can rejoin Aunt and Uncle Twice. But she soon realizes her aunt and uncle have all but forgotten her, and, worse, Mrs. Spilking's behavior grows increasingly cruel -- and suspicious. Can Emily discover what's going on at the dreadful school before her future is destroyed forever?

Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late at night. And no one ever speaks. Everything's changed at Sugar Hill Hall, and Emily knows something awful is happening there. What's become of Uncle Twice? Why is Aunt Twice a prisoner in her own home? Emily is desperate to uncover the truth. Time is running out, and she must find a way to save the people and home she cares so much about.

Rupert Brown's pets, a pair of guinea pigs, a turtle, and a cockatiel, have started talking to him again, a sure sign that Miss Switch, a bona fide, no-fooling, real witch, is back again as Pepperdine Elementary School's enormously popular sixth-grade teacher! This can only spell one thing: the wicked Saturna has never forgiven Rupert for blowing up her judgmental Computowitch to save Miss Switch from its idiotic verdict. So back she is, this time contriving a plot that employs villains so vile they can only be imagined between the covers of actual books. With no Computowitch to help her, will Saturna devise a way to make sure that Rupert and his unlucky classmates meet the same terrible ends as these vile villains?!

Welcome to Woodbridge. Where everyone has a secret. When Sadie McIntyre gives a drunken Marylou Paretsky a ride home on a rainy night, little does she realize it's the last time anyone will see Marylou alive. Tragic accident? Or Murder? The following morning, Marylou is found dead at the bottom of her staircase. What first appears to be a drunken tumble becomes far more complicated as Sadie discovers Marylou wasn’t as sweet and timid as everyone thought. Turns out Marylou spent her spare time digging up dirt on her neighbors and left behind a list of their secrets. Much to her horror, Sadie’s name is right on top. Eager to keep her past buried, Sadie, with the help of her best friend Rob and Dan Bartlett, the town’s sexy new chief of detectives, sets out to who on the list was desperate enough to kill. Will she discover the answer before the truth gets out? Or will the killer find Sadie first?

Maximilian Pettigrew Westmorington Bassford Thorndike Finstersill Smith the Fifth, otherwise known as Max, is an uber-rich, super-spoiled kid. His only friends are his dogs and one more-or-less (mostly less) friend, Percival. Suddenly and dramatically, Max loses both his parents when they sink with the glamorous holiday island where his father has invested every one of his gazillion dollars. Max, in one terrible moment, becomes a penniless orphan. Furthermore, his father’s lawyers have to dig to find so much as one relative to whom they can deliver Max. Next thing you know, Max, who thinks wrinkled old people are creeps, gets dumped in a retirement home run by witchy twin sisters, where he falls in love with a bunch of oldsters, yclept the Mother Goose-ites, who fall in love with him!

Colin Trevelyan, newly orphaned heir to his parents' fortune, is kidnapped in the night from his ancestral home and taken to the grim Broggin Home for Boys, where he is underfed, overworked, and destined for a short life in a deadly glass factory. This story "immediately hooks readers, who will gobble up this satisfying fare," says School Library Journal. "Fully realized Victorian melodrama that would make Dickens proud," says The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. A Junior Literary Guild selection and winner of the Mystery Writers of America EDGAR Award.

Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late at night. And no one ever speaks. Everything's changed at Sugar Hill Hall, and Emily knows something awful is happening there. What's become of Uncle Twice? Why is Aunt Twice a prisoner in her own home? Emily is desperate to uncover the truth. Time is running out, and she must find a way to save the people and home she cares so much about.

In this prequel to Claudia, aged eleven and in the sixth grade, Barbara Brooks Wallace introduces us to a Claudia aged nine and in the fourth grade. She and her best friends are like twins, even to the same number of scabs on their knees! But her friend leaves, the letters between them fade, and Claudia desperately looks for a replacementin all the wrong places, it seems, until she realizes that the most unlikely person in the world might be what shes been looking for! Wallace has an easy way with dialogue and sure instinct for capturing kids personalities. School Library Journal

Having once been snubbed by a former best friend, Claudia knows what it feels like to be dumped. Now shes faced with having to do the same thing. Only this is someone she still cares about, the precociously memorable Duffy Booth, her much younger neighbor who was featured in the earlier Claudia stories. But she is outgrowing him, wants now to have friends her own age, and he is smothering her with his dependence on her. The surprising solution to this dilemma is not exactly the one Claudia would have chosen. But she knows she must accept the fact that Duffy is growing up. And so, for that important matter, is she! Characters, situations, and family dynamics are credible and entertaining.Booklist

Rupert Brown can tell from day one that Miss Switch is no ordinary fifth-grade teacher. Her whole look is about as comfortable as a steel knitting needle! Plus, she's in some serious trouble. It seems that Miss Switch has been condemned by a crazy contraption called a computowitch, and she must come up with some original witchcraft -- or she will be doomed to sweep Witch's Mountain for l50 years.Can great scientist Rupert Brown and his friend Amelia Daley face the computowitch and the Witches' Council -- and get their favorite teacher of all time out of this mess?

What: EyesKind: CracklingWhose: HersPerformance: See clearly from back of headHow Tested: No known way to prove scientificallyThese are the notes made by Rupert P. Brown, a going-on-eleven-year-old budding scientist, when he suspects his fifth grade teacher at Pepperdine Elementary School is a witch. Turns out Miss Switch IS a witch, and she’s in big trouble, condemned by the wicked Saturna via her idiotic Computowitch to perform some original witchcraft or be forced to sweep Witch’s Mountain for 150 years. Miss Switch seeks Rupert’s help. Can the great scientist and friend Amelia Daley knock the socks off the Computowitch and the Witch’s Council . . . and win a reprieve for Miss Switch, their favorite teacher of all time? “Witchcraft of the real no-fooling, flying broomsticks and talking cats variety!” ABC Press