Books published by publisher Mysterious Press

Madeline Dare isnt your average detective. Born into a blue-blood family, she followed her heart to marry ruggedly handsome Dean, a farmboy-genius investor whos as far from high society as humanly possible. Now Maddies stuck in the post-industrial wasteland of Syracuse, New York, while her husband spends weeks on the road perfecting the railway equipment innovation that might be their only chance to escape. She can handle churning out lightweight features for the local paperits the Dean-less nights in their dingy, WASP-castoff-crammed apartment that Maddie cant stomach. Obsession trumps angst when a set of long-buried dog tags link her favorite cousin to the scene of a vicious double homicide. Drawn by the desire to clear her cousins name, Maddie uncovers a startling web of intrigue and family secrets that could prove even more deadly.

Uncle Albert was a first-class time-traveler, top-notch inventor as well as interstellar navigator and explorer. As such, he’d invented a time-traveling device that looked suspiciously similar to a flying bunk bed. With the assistance of Aristotle, his onboard computer, second mate as well as coordinates master, Uncle Albert could go wherever he wanted regardless of the time or location.In his many adventures, the only problem was, Uncle Albert had not expected someone as nasty and notorious as the black market swindler and Spice Pirate, Criswald Crank, to cross his time-traveling path. Criswald, however, had done just that. But worse, he’d stolen the plans for Uncle Albert’s time machine. Now, they were in a race through time. Uncle Albert had to save the world before Criswald and his crooked crew could fulfill their misguided and mischievous mission.