Read Series: Herculeah Jones Mysteries
by Author Betsy Byars
King of Murder (2006)
Together with her best friend and reluctant sidekick Meat, Herculeah Jones meets famous mystery author Mathias King, aka The Murder King, who based a novel on a unsolved local stabbing. Could he be responsible for the crime?
Dead Letter (2006)
When Herculeah discovers a mysterious letter inside the lining of a secondhand coat, she suspects it's a desperate cry for help. If so, what happened to the person who wrote it? Herculeah thinks she knows the answer. What she doesn't know is that someone is watching her-someone who will do anythi...
The Dark Stairs (2006)
Herculeah knew something was up. She could feel it in her hair from the very first moment she saw her father, Police Detective Jones, enter the yard of Dead Oaks, the local mystery mansion. Her sense of danger deepened when she encountered the creepy, hollow-toned man who hired her mother to inve...
Tarot Says Beware (1997)
Madam Rosa, the eccentric local fortune teller, has been brutally murdered, and the case has everyone baffled. Herculeah has a pretty good idea who the killer is, but someone else has a vision too -- and wants to make sure Herculeah won't be around to see the future. "Byars grips the reader from ...