Figure out whodunnit in this clever installment in the exciting Sudoku mystery series featuring puzzle master Liza Kelly... Original Sudoku puzzles included After spending her vacation hiding from the media, Liza returns to find that the town has put her in the running for mayor. She has a feeling that the neighboring county and its dirty political machine are involved. When she turns to an old classmate to find out, she discovers that he's been murdered. A closeted Sudoku fan, he's left behind puzzles that may have hidden clues to what finished him off and who is trying to run Liza into the ground.

What if you could solve any Sudoku puzzle with a bare minimum of penciling in and erasing (usually one or two penciled in numbers per cell, and never more than three), no educated guesses, and do it in less than half the time it takes you to solve a puzzle now? Well, we have developed an incredibly simple yet amazingly powerful system which limits the confusion of having four, five or more contingincies penciled in for each cell and can solve almost any Sudoku puzzle. This is not to say that we have taken the logic or the challenge out of solving Sudoku puzzles, we have not! You must still be thoughtful, thorough and sometimes imaginative, but you will have much MORE FUN solving them, with much less tedium and frustration.

Sudoku puzzles are enhanced with seasonal art and completed with colors rather than numbers. Each book provides simple 6x6 puzzles as well as more challenging 9x9 puzzles to build critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills. Strategies for completing the puzzles and answer keys are provided.

Small-town Sudoku expert Liza Kelly flies to Los Angeles to appear on TV. But when a celebrity is found dead, she has a far more serious puzzle to solve.

A seaside-set paranormal mystery-from the authors of the Renaissance Faire mystery Ghastly Glass Meet Dae O'Donnell, a woman with a gift for finding lost things-and the stories behind lost lives... Dae O'Donnell is the mayor of Duck, North Carolina-and the person everyone turns to when they've lost something. One touch and Dae can find it, and missing pieces seem to find their way to her, whether she wants them to or not. When Miss Mildred asks Dae to find her missing watch, Dae finds herself looking for more than mislaid jewelry-she must prove the town matriarch isn't a cold-blooded killer.

This is a step-by-step workbook and illustrated guide. Use strategies like the 'line & cube' and the 'line count' to SCREAM through easy puzzles in under 10 minutes. Use complex strategies like the 'blitz' and 'ghost blitz' to get numbers that would otherwise stump most gamers. And the unique 'slide rule' to produce numbers seemingly out of thin air. And for very hard or diabolical puzzles, I've included little known strategies for producing results. Plus - learn how to make your own puzzles and learn valuable strategies along the way. This is a short but complete guide. Very easy to read and follow. Become a SuDoku Master in just a weekend. Take your game to whole new level Illustrations throughout.

The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O’Donnell, is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings—and sometimes it leads her to murder… When her boyfriend Kevin’s ex-fiancée Ann arrives in Duck looking for a second chance, Dae suddenly finds herself facing certain heartache. And while her romantic life is in shambles, she’s even more concerned by the sudden change in her gift. After touching a medallion owned by a local named Chuck Sparks, Dae is shocked when her vision reveals his murder—and a cry for help. Dae doesn’t know what to make of the dead man’s plea to “Help her,” until she has another vision about a kidnapped girl—Chuck’s daughter, Betsy. With a child missing, the FBI steps in to take over the case. But Dae can’t ignore her visions of Betsy, or the fact that Kevin’s psychic ex-fiancée might be the only person who can help find her…

Jessie Morton's latest apprenticeship at the Renaissance Faire is in service to Daisy, the master swordsmith. But when a professional dueler-and Daisy's former flame-is murdered, it's up to Jessie to keep a sharp eye out for the killer.

Long before he became curator of the Duck Historical Museum, Max Caudle discovered its greatest treasure-a wooden chest full of gold. But a thief with his eye on the gold fires a cannonball into the museum, destroying the building-and killing Max. Injured in the explosion, Dae finds her abilities have been amplified, overwhelming her with intense visions every time she touches an object. Now if ex-FBI agent-and burgeoning beau-Kevin Brickman can help Dae decipher her visions, she just might be able to stop the modern-day buccaneer from killing again.

Discover a new spooky middle grade adventure for fans of Neil Gaiman and Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow about a cursed boy who embarks on a journey into a magical city of ghosts to find out who he really is. Oscar Grimstone is a normal kid—aside from his secret Curse. Whenever he touches something living, like a flower or his classroom goldfish, they always seem to die. But then Oscar discovers an even bigger secret: even though he is very much alive, he has the ability to transform into a ghost. Just when he thinks things can't get any stranger two ghosts show up at his home in a skeleton carriage and he winds up joining them on a journey beyond the real world to a place he never knew existed—the city of ghosts. There Oscar will discover a place where people go once they die, before they aboard a ship to the The Other Side. But will he find out who he really is? "Hauntingly entertaining."—BCCB, starred review