Mike and Kate Tackle Football!

That’s right, Kate and Mike will always love baseball–they’ve spent 23 books chasing baseball mysteries–but now they’ve got something new to solve–a FOOTBALL MYSTERY!

In The Two-Minute Warning, Mike and Kate travel to Texas to take in a Dallas Cowboys game. But someone is out to get Carlos, their star quarterback! Can the cousins find out who before it’s too late and Carlos and the Cowboys lose the big game?

The Two-Minute Warning is available in paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook versions! Purchase it from your favorite local bookstore or online retailers today!

(and let me know what football team Kate and Mike should visit next!)

The Atlanta Alibi

It’s here! The latest Ballpark Mysteries book is now available! This time, we’ll be taking a trip down south to Atlanta. That’s right, the latest Ballpark Mysteries book will be The Atlanta Alibi. Mike and Kate visit the Atlanta Braves’ ballpark and discover that someone’s taken Hank Aaron’s famous bat and ball that he used to hit record-breaking home run 715! Order it now from your favorite bookstore to make sure you can catch all the baseball action! Dig deeper and download the free activity guide for The Atlanta Alibi for hours of fun.

The Atlanta Alibi

St. Louis, Here we come!

Mike and Kate are off to St. Louis for their latest ballpark adventure.  In Ballpark Mysteries book #14, THE CARDINALS CAPER, Mike and Kate journey to St. Louis for a Cardinals baseball game. Before the game, they get to meet the Clydesdale horses and Dalmatian dog. But just as the game starts, the dog goes missing! Can Mike and Kate find the missing dog before the end of the game? Or will the Cardinals have to give up one of their World Series trophies to get the dog back?

It’s Christmas in Cooperstown!

If you’ve read the Ballpark Mysteries books carefully, you might know that Mike and Kate live in Cooperstown, New York, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. And while most of Mike and Kate’s mysteries take place in ballparks during the spring, summer, or fall, the latest Ballpark Mysteries book takes place in Cooperstown in the winter!

In Christmas in Cooperstown, Ballpark Mysteries Super Special #2, Mike and Kate get to sleep over in the Hall of Fame! But before they leave, they discover something strange: the Hall of Fame’s Honus Wagner baseball card (worth millions of dollars!) is a fake! Can they discover who stole the multi-million dollar Honus Wagner card and get it back to the Hall of Fame before Christmas? Find out in this fun holiday Ballpark Mysteries Super Special!

It’s a Double Double-Header!

If you haven’t started reading my baseball mystery series yet, now’s the time! Random House Children’s Books just issued the first four Ballpark Mysteries books (Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros) in a box set. Think of it as a “double double-header”!

Ballpark Mysteries Box Set
Ballpark Mysteries Box Set

It’s a Ballpark Mysteries World Series!

Both teams in this year’s World Series are teams that the Ballpark Mysteries have visited. In Ballpark Mysteries book #5, The All-Star Joker, Kate and Mike visit Kansas City to see the All-Star game and meet some Royals players. In Ballpark Mysteries book #7, The San Francisco Splash, they head to San Francisco for a game.

Both teams in the 2014 World Series are Ballpark Mysteries teams!
Both teams in the 2014 World Series are Ballpark Mysteries teams!

I’m not saying that the Ballpark Mysteries are the reason that the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants are in the World Series, but hey, it can’t hurt!

The San Francisco Giants Mystery!

When Kate and I travel to different ballpark, we know that we’ll see a baseball game. But when we went to San Francisco last year, we never thought we’d go kayaking in San Francisco bay! Turns out the bay is right next to the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark! It’s really cool, since home runs get hit over the stadium wall and fly into the bay! They’re called Splash Hits!If you’re out there in a kayak or boat, you can actually catch one!

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So Kate and I were kayaking in the bay when our San Francisco Splash mystery started. We heard a splash nearby, and before we knew it, we were investigating a missing World Series ring and chasing the thief all over San Francisco!