First published in Denmark in 2007, the Department Q books are written by Jussi Adler-Olsen and have since been translated and published all over the world. The first novel in the series, Mercy, ...

We read a book called ‘Paddle-to-the-Sea.’ It was a very good book." The message in the bottle dates back to 1998, when Makenzie Van Eyk was a fourth grader at the time at St. John the Baptist ...

they only heard of one message in a bottle being found. "We had done a study on the Great Lakes and the water unit, and I read to them the book 'Paddle to the Sea.' … From that, I gave them a ...

"I can walk the beach just about every day, and I do," Jaynes said. "I kind of feel that the message-in-the-bottle thing is the sea saying, 'Thank you.'" The note was written by fifth-grade ...