Mary Higgins Clark
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark. Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship--the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady...
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"[A] Manhattan ER doctor is brazenly murdered in front of his young son in a city playground. Five years later, his killer is still at large. Meanwhile his widow, Laurie Moran, is now an award-winning TV producer. Still haunted by her husband's murder, she has been raising their son alone. Laurie and her TV crew have just received the green light to produce a new 'cold case' series. Revisiting unsolved crimes one at a time, she and her TV crew will...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The third thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke--television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder. Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiance--famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III--fifteen years ago. And Casey claims--has always claimed--she's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; Every Breath You Take follows television producer's Laurie Moran investigation of the unsolved Met Gala murder-in which a wealthy widow was pushed to her death from the famous museum's rooftop.
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, facing peril once again as adults. Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children? was her biggest, selling millions of copies and forever transforming the genre of suspense fiction....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments -- a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year old Mariah to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel...
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Language
English
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Description
"In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years earlier, a young lawyer investigates a bizarre community of people who choose to disappear, embarking on a quest with life-threatening consequences.
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Language
English
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A CRY IN THE NIGHT
When Jenny MacPartland met dashing artist Erich Krueger, he seemed like the answer to her prayers. Handsome, good with her two daughters, he only wanted to whisk her away from her poverty-stricken life. But when she married him and moved to his ranch, Jenny began to worry-about his strange obsession with his long-dead mother and his growing possessiveness. Stumbling across old family secrets, Jenny finds the shocking
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Traumatized by the kidnappings of her twin three-year-old girls, only one of whom was recovered, a mother begins a desperate search when her returned daughter claims that the other twin, believed dead, is still alive and in mortal danger.
A pair of twin girls are kidnapped, the ransom paid, but only Kelly is returned, with a note saying Kathy has been killed. When Kelly begins getting telepathic information from Kathy, only their mother believes...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In Branscombe, N.H., novelist Nora Regan Reilly and her PI daughter, Regan Reilly, and their close friends Alvirah and Will Meehan, track down a missing employee of Conklin's Market who is connected with a $160 million lottery and the winnings.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
15) My gal Sunday
Author
Series
Henry and Sunday mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Description
Henry Britland, ex-President, and his wife, Sunday, a newly elected Congresswoman, are a team of sleuths in these short stories, with cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
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When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
17) Deck the halls
Author
Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Scribner
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles private detective Regan Reilly teams up with lottery winner and amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan to investigate when Regan's father Luke and his driver, Rosita, are kidnapped pending a one million dollar ransom.
"Deck the Halls" begins when Regan's father, Luke Reilly, mysteriously disappears just before Christmas. For help, Regan turns to her parents' neighbors, with whom she shares a talent for detection.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her teenage sister, Andrea, was murdered. It was Ellie who led her parents to the secret hideout in which Andrea's body was found. And it was Ellie's testimony that led to the conviction of the man she firmly believed to be the killer. Now, twenty-two years later, the convicted killer is set free from prison. He returns to Ellie's hometown intent on white-washing his reputation. Ellie, now an investigative...