This January, Wagtail, Virginia, the top pet-friendly destination in the country, is throwing a fun murder mystery weekend--but no one expected the real thing... --Publisher

Sam loves to play games--even if he does not win every time.

A boy who likes nothing but playing computer games is in trouble when the power goes out and his little sister has all of the batteries in the house.

When she wakes up one morning to find her double in her room, seventeen-year-old Kate, already at wit's end with college applications, finals, and extracurricular activities, decides to put her to work.

On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, "reprieve," they'll win a substantial cash prize... But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants. Those...

At the Mud Flat Olympics if the animals don't win the Deepest Hole Contest, the All-Snail High Hurdles, or the River-Cross Freestyle, they can still come to the picnic after the games and have ice cream for dessert.

Determined to secure her mentor and lover's parole by fixing an illegal card game, career criminal Crissa Stone plots a daring robbery that goes wrong when one of her crew shoots a player with connections to an equally desperate hit man.

When the animals on the farm pair up for games on a bright and sunny day, Peepsqueak the little chick is unable to find a friend of his own and searches in the woods, where he finds a great big new friend.

When a friend is found murdered in her New Orleans apartment, Stacy Killian, a former Dallas homicide detective, suspects that the killing could be related to a violent fantasy role-playing game called White Rabbit.