Ernst, who lives in Middleton, Wis., is the author of 20 historical novels and mysteries for young readers from American Girl ...

Importantly, the cozy mystery’s protagonist is an amateur sleuth ... house or an abandoned island were featured, as well as a short-list of suspects from distinctive upper-class professions ...

At the Long Beach drugstore counter where she liked to linger, a jobless young woman named Elizabeth Short acquired the playful nickname that would fuel her long, macabre afterlife. She dyed her ...

On July 18, 2007, Barbara Bolick was out hiking in Montana near the Bear Creek Overlook outside Victor and disappeared after ...