When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury.

Plucky Victorian newspaper reporter Nellie Bly travels to the haunted moors of England to investigate the mysterious death of another journalist. There she encounters a handsome young biology teacher named H.G. Wells, whose knowledge leads Nellie into the realm of science gone mad.

Russian agent Alexei Volkovoy engages in a globe-trotting investigation into the murder of a prominent female journalist, who was found shot to death on the banks of the Techa River near a radioactive Russian village.

"When investigative journalist Birdie Keane's latest story reveals the shocking truth about a famous cold case, she teams up with her cousin, homicide detective Thom Keane, to deal with the aftermath. But Thom may be in more trouble than Birdie. Assigned to a high-profile murder he should have nothing to do with, Thom suspects he's being set up by the top brass. Still fighting the fallout from their family's past misdeeds, the Keane cousins have a...