Laurence S. Chess

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.

While staying at a picturesque village, a teen encounters the underground world of art forgery.

The peaceful existence of a suburban backwater is disrupted when Wesley, a troubled housepainter falls for Margaret, the sensitive wife of his boss, Willie. In a small town nothing stays a secret for long however, and as each becomes more suspicious of the other underlying tensions culminate in a bizarre orgy of violence.

A hitman is back to end the tyranny he helped start, but his return only awakens more murder and reveals truths about who was behind it all.

Was Jesus a historical person? We'll trace and compare existing evidence to modern mythology.