Sleep Like a Tiger is a story written by Mary Logue that any parent can relate too. It describes a young princess who has difficulty falling asleep. Her parents try to entice her with all the different animals that sleep soundly with the hopes it will encourage their daughter to fall asleep too. ...
In this story, a little girl is not ready to go to sleep. She begins asking her parents many questions about who else goes to sleep. They give her a long list of animals and she starts to think about them. The illustrations show this whole process and many different animals. They are done in an i...
Fall comes to Pepin County with a vengeance as Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins confronts a new evil festering beneath the placid surface of the Wisconsin farm community. A refugee from the Twin Cities, Claire has slowly adapted to small-town life–especially now that she loves and lives with Rich Ha...
Newly relocated to Wisconsin after the death of her husband, deputy sheriff Claire Watkins finds that crime prevails even in a small river town. When a car falls through the ice of Lake Pepin, Claire finds the drowned driver tied to the seat. The victim's girlfriend is then found badly beaten, an...
After her husband is killed, Minnesota police officer Claire Watkins and her 10-year-old daughter, Meg, move to a small Wisconsin town. Nine months later the crime is still unsolved, but Claire is slowly rebuilding her life. Two things are about to shatter her fragile peace: the murder of her nei...
Then the quiet was broken. The baby reached up a hand and jerked at the tablecloth. A spoon hit her on the head, and she started to cry. Bertha Schuler stuck her head out the door and called that dinner was ready. The clock in the hallway struck the half hour. And the first shot was fired.The uns...
Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is back, in this tragic, personal follow up to Poison Heart. Claire's daughter Meg is struggling with depression--after an all-night high school Halloween party, Meg's best friend was found dead of an apparent suicide at the foot of Maiden Rock. Krista and Meg had fo...
Lowest I’ve ever seen.” Dr. Elise Cornwall was standing over Claire in the waiting room. Claire closed the People magazine she was reading. The news on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie could wait. “I didn’t know it could go that low.” The doctor nodded. She looked like she was still a teenager, but C...
She didn’t feel like herself. People were swirling around her in the lobby of the hospital, but she felt very separate from everything: bone distantly throbbing, drifting around in the weird, nauseous pain tempered by the medicine. She grabbed the arms of the wheelchair in order to hold on to som...
He didn’t quite swagger, but there was a little backbeat in his walk. She was glad she would get a chance to see Rich later on tonight. She had surprised herself by agreeing to stop by, but now she was glad. That last kiss had been full of promise. Billy came over to talk, and she asked him if he...
When Dr. Pinkers left, the bones all safely packed in bags and then tucked into a foam container, he said he’d call her as soon as he knew anything. When she pushed him and asked when that might be, he squinted his eyes as if looking far off into the future. “I’ll know something before the week’s...