A Nashville police detective, Jack "Boo" Radley, loses his wife (the third) in a fatal car accident. Depressed, he drops out of the police department, and heads somewhere south. Winds up in a dilapidated Mississippi fish camp with five gallons of vodka and embarks on a new mission of becoming the town drunk. Unfortunately, there's no town; and he lacks the willpower to drink all day, every day. He goes back to the family home place in Carroll County,...

Using their code-breaking skills, four middle-schoolers solve the mystery of the eccentric man who draws stick figures on his second-floor bedroom window.

"Horowitz himself becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation --- and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne." ...Publisher.