Pennsylvania Mysteries

Die alleinerziehende Kate muss mit ihrem siebenjährigen Sohn Christopher untertauchen. Mill Grove scheint dafür ideal zu sein. Eine Straße führt hinein, eine hinaus. Ringsum liegt dichter Wald. Doch Christopher beginnt eine Stimme zu hören. Und merkwürdige Zeichen zu sehen. Zeichen, die ihn in den Wald locken. Sechs Tage lang bleibt er verschwunden. Als er wieder auftaucht, kann er sich an nichts erinnern. Aber plötzlich hat er besondere Fähigkeiten. Und einen Auftrag: ein Baumhaus im Wald zu errichten.

Another spring, another dead girl pulled from a lake in the Appalachian foothills: the latest victim in a series of murders with few leads. But Detective Geena Brassard and her partner, Parker Reed, finally land a break when they receive a tip about a previously unknown survivor of the so-called Spring Strangler. The survivor’s reluctant to help with the case for reasons that aren’t all clear. Even so, Geena uncovers a connective thread between the victims, and recently discovered DNA brings her closer to the killer’s identity.

Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society president Nell Pratt gets some unexpected news that rocks her foundation. Two members of a local neighborhood rescue program, Tyrone Blakeney and Cherisse Chapman, inform Nell that her society owns an abandoned row house in a rundown area of Philadelphia and they insist on taking her to see the property before its date with the wrecking ball. But soon after they arrive at the house, Cherisse is fatally shot and Tyrone is badly injured. The police believe it's just random violence in a bad neighborhood, but Nell thinks there's more to it.

Chicago-style politics is front and center. When a sitting president has his roots in this sullied political heritage, it makes for news and leads to speculation. Not Black and White is a fictional account of many of the events that led to the meteoric rise of a local charismatic street politician to become America's first African American president and the downfall and imprisonment of two consecutive governors of the state of Illinois, along with several of their most trusted advisors and cohorts.