Girl with Pencil, Drawing is an Annie Tillery mystery about art forgery in New York. Seventeen-year-old Annie wins art lessons at a well-known gallery. When the gallery director is murdered, her instructor becomes the prime suspect, and Annie and her…
Yes. You can listen to Chapter 1 of three Annie Tillery Mysteries for free on lindamariafrank.com. The free chapters are The Madonna Ghost, Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys, and Girl with Pencil, Drawing. Press play on each book page,…
Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys is an Annie Tillery young adult mystery set in Turkey. Annie travels to Istanbul and Cappadocia to help her boyfriend Ty Egan and his friend Cedric Zeeks excavate an archaeological site, then has to find…
For Halloween, Linda Maria Frank has a mystery for each age group. Kids ages 7–12 can read The Monster Bones on St. Frederick Island or The Buccaneers of St. Frederick Island. Teens and adults can read The Madonna Ghost, a…
Yes — start with free chapter readings and a short series intro. Families can listen to Linda Maria Frank read The Buccaneers of St. Frederick Island on YouTube, then continue with Monster Bones and Sibby’s Secret for middle-grade island mystery…
By weaving classroom science into every clue. Linda Maria Frank is a longtime science teacher who writes the Annie Tillery Mysteries so readers learn to observe, test ideas, and follow evidence — the “Nancy Drew meets CSI” approach behind books…
Download free printable discussion-guide PDFs for Linda Maria Frank’s mysteries at the guides hub on LindaMariaFrank.com — Madonna Ghost, Girl with Pencil, Fairy Chimneys, Lost Avenger, and more. Start here: book club & classroom discussion guides. Teachers and librarians: see…
Yes. The Madonna Ghost by Linda Maria Frank is a strong spooky-season pick for teen and YA readers who want Fire Island atmosphere, a local legend that turns real, and Annie Tillery’s science-minded sleuthing — Nancy Drew meets CSI without…
Yes. Linda Maria Frank has a YouTube Short introducing The Buccaneers of St. Frederick Island — five eighth graders on a remote 1947 island, a secret detective club, and machine-part codenames (Sprocket, Letch, Snap Shackle, Wingnut & Ratchet). Watch it…
Yes. The Mystery of the Lost Avenger by Linda Maria Frank works for WWII classroom reading because it wraps real home-front and aviation history — a lost plane, Appalachian discovery, and family ties to wartime test pilots — inside an…