(W) Kris Bertin (A/CA) Alexander Forbes Perfect for fans of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Hardy Boys mysteries, The Hobtown Mystery Stories take the teen investigator genre to new levels as they explore small town identity and the surreal. Welcome to Hobtown, a charmingly bleak village (Population: 2,006) and an easy place to get bored if you don?t make your own fun. Hobtown Regional High?s top girl, Dana Nance, runs the Teen Detective Club?a registered after-school program that makes it their business to investigate each and every one of their town's bizarre occurrences including pagan secret societies, psychic assaults, and possible ?wee man? sightings. Their small world of missing pets and shed fires is turned upside down when real-life kid adventurer and globetrotter Sam Finch comes to town and enlists them in their first real case: the search for his missing father. Something strange is going on, and no one in Hobtown will talk about it. It turns out Sam?s dad is the sixth man to go missing this year. The rot runs deep in Hobtown, and it?s up to the teen detectives and associate

(W) Kris Bertin (A/CA) Alexander Forbes Welcome back to Hobtown, the charming but bleak rural village whose placid exterior belies the surreal underbelly teeming below. . . . The second must-read volume of the page-turning series that the New York Times calls ?forceful and haunting? starts here in its fully colored edition from creators Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes! Isolated from their fellow sleuths after being sent to a mysterious, extra-credit boarding school for Christmas break, Brennan and Pauline must forge new alliances to lift a curse that has plagued the good people of Hobtown for centuries.