Marilou McCormick, every high school boy's dream English teacher, leaves San Diego to teach in the quaint mountain village of Julian, California, after watching the savage murder of her boyfriend. But Julian is far from a Leave It to Beaver community: McCormick discovers her classroom is haunted by the increasingly violent ghosts of dead authors, and her only ally turns out to be Moondog, the eccentric school-bus driver who claims to be a werewolf -- and who may be responsible for the death of McCormick's boyfriend. Garfield writes colloquial prose and plot like a young Stephen King.

-Rick Koster

Genre: Mystery