Untreed Reads: 526 books

The Firebird Scouts of Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan. Somehow or another, they've managed to survive an attack from a werewolf in their last adventure, as well as each others competing personalities. But this time, when they have to overcome a garden that literally takes on a life of its own, can they...

When world-famous author Darien Port invites budding writer Roan Gage for drinks at his elegant New England mansion, he has an ulterior motive. Suffering from writer's block, what he really wants is for Roan to ghost his new manuscript. Though the offer is tempting, Roan is determined to spend the summer...

Brig Detroit is a professional poker player who has fallen through the cracks of modern society. Living his day to day life one hotel at a time, he grinds his living on a leather chair, in comfortable obscurity. After receiving news of his cousin's murder, Brig's best friend, Benny, convinces him to...

When a stranger walks into the neighborhood bar, The Fine Kettle O'Fish, Finn and the others aren't sure what to think of him--at first. Soon, it's apparent that Malcolm, the new guy, is bothering everyone's favorite striptease artist, Violet, who has had a rough time climbing out of the gutter. Something is lurking in Mal's past, and something has to be done. A short story.

Bailey Green arrives in Key West just in time to discover that her old family friend Francine Shipton has been found murdered. Francine was planning on turning her home into a refuge for the homeless, and as a result, was far from popular with her neighbors.Once Francine's son Zack installs Bailey in...

The lives and schemes of frontier politicians, Northern Pacific Railroad executives, bonanza farmers, and homesteaders converge in the story of Frances Houghton Bingham, who marries the son of a Red River Valley bonanza farmer in order to remain near her new husband's sister. Emotionally complex, willful...

In this novella by the acclaimed author of The Medusa Tree and The Deadwood Beetle, an elderly Jewish woman tells an Arabic student who has come to interview her for a research project an incredible tale: that she is Anne Frank, the author of The Diary of a Young Girl and the most famous victim of Hitler's...

Andrew Carpenter was a celebrity doctor, a star in his field. Now he's dead, killed in a hit-and-run on the streets of Manhattan. The police think it was an accident, but his devastated wife is sure it was murder. Private detective Nathaniel Singer agrees to take the case. Singer had once dreamed...

Updated for 2013 with new words and phrases! Sometimes you need a phrasebook that does a lot more than just tell you where the bathroom is. If you're a woman in a country where you don't speak the language, you might need more assistance. What if you want to flirt with that really cute waiter in Paris?...

In the Adirondacks, a grandfather is killed while deer hunting.On New York City’s East Side, two boys are kidnapped and a retired doctor is gunned down in the getaway.In midtown Manhattan, a former governor is abducted and viciously butchered, his throat slit.The killing has just...

Apart from running the family farm, Jake's daily routine is simple: Late every afternoon he searches his son Joey's room to make sure Joey didn't bring something unwelcome or alien into their house. Joey doesn't appreciate his father's intrusions, but it's Jake's house, Jake's rules, right? Besides, Joey has nothing to hide. Nothing at all. A short story.

P.I. Dick Hardesty listens with polite interest to his partner Jonathan's stories of his days working for 90-year-old multimillionaire Clarence Bement, helping the old man tend his garden. But when Bement is found dead, an apparent suicide, Jonathan is adamant that the old man would never have killed...

Dick Hardesty is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a client’s lover. The police assume the death is drug related. In the course of his investigation Dick learns of eight similar deaths, all seemingly unrelated. The victims had nothing in common other than being gay, and all dying the same...

When private investigator Dick Hardesty is hired by businessman Stuart Anderson to conduct routine background checks on potential store managers, he becomes reacquainted with a former trick, Phil Stark, who has undergone an amazing transformation from bar hustler to professional escort. When Anderson...