Books by Linda Ross Meyer

From the Prologue: "There's nothing in here that could possibly be of interest to you. This story, you see, involves a library. An actual stone and mortar one. Books made out of leather and paper. Been in one? Well, you might have seen pictures. It also involves a murder mystery, a two-level secret code, three odd teenagers, some snarky gargoyles, and several deep philosophical questions. Most likely not your kind of thing. Really, you should feel perfectly free to stop right here."

15-year-old Orin's farm village faces a life-threatening drought. Orin's grandmother believes Orin to be a Singer, with strong magic that can bring back the rain. But the Magistrate has forbidden singing, and Singers are considered unstable and dangerous. Orin wants no part of the village's bloody history of Singing Wars, and she is afraid ... mostly of herself. But Orin must embrace her destiny in order to unravel the mystery of the treasure song and protect those she loves.

Sentencing policy is an often crude means by which we seek to achieve justice by means of a quantitative measure of time. Linda Ross Meyer shows that our complicated ways of thinking about time often lead to contradictory and counterproductive outcomes in criminal justice-and suggests alternative ways of approaching sentencing the convicted.