A riveting mystery wrapped in a disturbing family, Ada Unraveled is the first of the Quilted Mystery novels. Central to the story is the Stowall family, headed by a simple father obsessed with the fear that his branch of a mountain clan would bring dishonor to them all.But first we are introduced to an enigmatic being with the words, "His mom brought him a friend. He was astonished, frozen on his bed. He couldn't even remember what his tongue and lips were for. He watched his mom leave them alone, sneaking upstairs with a smile on her old face. What was she thinking? He couldn't have guests. He was in a prison, a cage...."Rachel and her Marine husband Matt had arrive on the west coast after early retirement from their respective careers. They establish a private investigations business and ply their trade successfully. Growing restless in the mostly male, home-based business, Rachel searches for female friends through her hobbies, one of them being hand quilting. So she shouldn't...

The gripping articles in Classic Krakauer, originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian, display the singular investigative reporting that made Jon Krakauer famous—and show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mt. Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of greater Seattle at any moment; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherwordly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars; from the notebook of one Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo. Rigorously researched and vividly written, marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop, the pieces in Classic Krakauer are unified by the author's ambivalent...