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When a woman begins finding notes from her comatose father, miracle fever takes over the town. This touching story explores the strength of a father’s love. An enchanting follow-up to Siple’s award-winning debut, The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride, The Town with No Roads is a story of forgiveness and redemption that explores whether unconditional love should hold us close or set us free.

In Woodland Park, lazy nights and weekly movie mysteries build a new audience. When film plots link themselves to homicides in the Rivoli parking lot, Lt. Chester Devlin is perplexed. Jonas Kirk is curious. They, along with local attorney, Roger Blaisdell, and newbie cop, Oliver Grant, search for connections. An athletic couple, the Gordons, grapple with their crumbling marriage while Kirk and his romantic partner, Sharon Cunningham, speculate on likely motives for a series of violent deaths.

Born and raised in a patriarchal farming community infused with bent religion, 19-year-old Meyrick has spent the majority of her life encased in snow-dusted hills and trees. Stanch regulation leaves little room for teenage antics, and Meyrick finds herself dreaming of a future far from the grasp of rural Alberta. As plans to leave for America are coming to fruition, an unearthed secret leaves Meyrick with no choice but to rescue the man she loves and embark on their adventure prematurely.

Christmas season brings parades and magic. It also brings a poker session with four fine citizens of Woodland Park. Jonas Kirk deals the cards, sees the cheats, lives with the outcome. When one player turns up dead the next day, Kirk has ideas. Devlin's not too alarmed, but Kirk's explanation seems to clear things up...and then confuses the issue even more. Devlin is befuddled. Kirk is reconciled. Justice denied?

Set in the far future, Ration is an unflinching take on the ways society can both thrive and go wrong as pressure to survive builds. All the girls who live in the Apartments are forced to weigh their own hunger against the lives of the others living in the building. When Cynthia is wrongly accused of ordering an "A" ration, she punished by the other girls. Eventually, she is forced to leave the Apartments along with Ms. Glennoc, one of the former managers who has tormented and abused her for years.

Hello Geraldine Wright! The local maven of conformity spends her days reviewing and correcting shop owners and their business habits. Kirk follows her through the Rubber Ducky Car Wash and finds her new car on a collision course to death. Can Geraldine find a way out? Can Devlin help calm a community nuisance? Does Kirk know as much as he thinks? Whose business is it, anyway?

When the Woodland Park Locusts take on the Stillwater Frogs, it’s not just the football game that burns new memories. Coaches provide. Players collide. Fans threaten homicide. Lydia shows a violent mentality, and Kirk sorts through habits and eccentricity to give Devlin final answers.

When opponents of a planned resort development on Moosehead Lake in northern Maine start turning up dead, Detective Doug Bateman of the Maine State Police is called in. Concurrently, investigator Anne Quinn with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office is looking into a series of bizarre assaults on women. As the parallel investigations unfold, Bateman and Quinn each find their cases becoming more complex and more disturbing.

As he works to introduce Pumpkin Fest to Woodland Park, Jonas Kirk stirs a nest of hidden enmities and memories of wretched misbehaviors. Four childhood friends, community leaders now, help organize the event...and then they begin to die - accidents it would appear. At the same time, Kirk finds himself increasingly lethargic, distracted from his commitments, and singularly focused on growing a pumpkin. 

El Buscador has long been legendary for revealing, to select visitors, New York’s secrets. Now he confronts his greatest challenge: The real estate mogul Timothy Terrance Tolland has been erecting skyscrapers at an alarming rate. Tolland’s mysterious construction at Canal Street threatens to tear the city’s fabric. Aided by a group of investigative reporters, El Buscador looks to bring Tolland down before his building forever transforms the skyline.

Jonas Kirk loves to walk, in the city, out in the countryside. He mulls his view of criminal justice, wondering what role he plays in seeing that the scales of right and wrong are balanced. Impressed with the skill of a passing biker, he finds the same rider in parts and pieces 15 minutes later. He wonders about causes.

Bingo is a simple game, a format for gossip, fun, and occasional windfalls of cash. Yet in Woodland Park, it seems to trigger burglaries and murder. Key personalities focus on these frightening events, among them, Bishop Leland Burkey, and Lt. Chester Devlin, each especially frustrated at their inability to calm a nervous community absorbing Muslim and Sikh arrivals. 

Jackson Stone is sick of ghosts. With his love life in shambles, he heads to Romania for a horror writers’ retreat, hoping it will be a break from the supernatural and breathing space from his relationship with medium Kate Carlsson. But as his fellow writers begin disappearing or losing their minds, he realizes he needs Kate’s help. 

Life in a small town creates understandings...and suspicions. When Mike Carraday has a near-death experience, he calls on Jonas Kirk to help him sort through the evidence. Mike gets answers, and Kirk gets insight.

A midwinter bicycle race brings hometown enthusiasts into contact with serious-minded gamblers. When suspicions circulate about the race being fixed, it infects all of Woodland Park.  

Woodland Park loves the acreage attached to the home of Miss Jane Oswald. Children explore it, play games on its turf. Their parents picnic on it and watch caretaker Arne Arneson manage it. When Miss Jane decides to sell the Acres, it sets off a chain reaction which leads to a deadly surprise. Suddenly, things don't pass the smell test. 

Can Jonas Kirk, a wealthy, white, middle-class, twenty-something orphan find a purpose in life? Thoughtful detective work appeals to him, especially when it solves homicides that seem to puzzle the local police in Woodland Park, Minnesota. In Click, Kirk reaches out to Sergeant Chester Devlin, sharing an insight that solves a case, creating a working confidence that matches the distant, clean, and tidy Kirk with the ambitious, messy, dogged Devlin.

A casual visit to St. Mark’s Catholic Church, leads Kirk to discover murder. The clues to solve murder in the pews lie in the confessional. Blocked by the conscience of a priest and the bluster of a bishop, Kirk and Lieutenant Devlin use both theology and civic seduction to find a killer.

Sharon Cunningham, a widowed Catholic, finds romance at the altar rail, an emotional commitment that takes her to India. In time, death comes to her priest, a half-world away. How? Jonas Kirk speculates.

Jonas Kirk discovers murder on the Empire Builder, as quiet a train death as one might imagine. Even Kirk’s notable sense of a murder scene becomes muddled amid his dreams and his new resolve to redefine himself. Lieutenant Chester Devlin becomes skeptical of Kirk’s cues, even as they seem to solve a homicide.