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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the whole village of Bishop's Lacey descends on Flavia de Luce's family's estate during a raging blizzard to watch the filming of a movie, a person ends up dead, strangled by a length of film, and the eleven-year-old budding chemist must find the killer.
"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"A diet-club leader with a taste for crime investigates a murder. Ellie Bernstein, who's babysitting a border collie for shy, insecure fellow member Rachel Lester, is hanging out with her boyfriend, Lt. Peter Miller of Colorado Springs Homicide, when he's called to a murder scene. Ignoring his obligatory warning, Ellie plans to find out who strangled Sara Lee, who looked and sounded just like Barbra Streisand, and tossed her body into the dumpster...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Alex Cross is after a serial murderer who chooses as his victims women who've neglected their children for successful careers in the entertainment industry. He describes the murders in overheated e-mails he addresses to his victims but sends to hapless entertainment columnist Arnold Griner, signing them "Mary Smith."
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian/New American Library
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Tabloids and fans are stunned when Alexis Peterson leaves her popular show for another soap, but she's too busy preparing to be a presenter at the Daytime Emmy Awards to even notice. When her copresenter loses his life before presenting a winner, Alex realizes she has another murder mystery on her hands. Working behind the scenes to find out how her costar could have met such an end, Alex invites handsome Detective Frank Jakes--a man she can't stop...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 34
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating the debut of The Icove Agenda. This time, it's Eve, not Roarke, who's a guest of honor, since the film is based on one of her famous cases. Her partner, Peabody, is practically giddy over rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty. Eve, on the other hand, is more likely to roll her eyes than have stars in them. But she has...
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From one of the most original writers in crime fiction comes a diabolical mystery wrapped in Hollywood tinsel.When reclusive, retired silver screen actress Barbara Lace dies in her bed, only the young widower of Cedarville suspects a crime. But Samson Delaware has always been something of an outsider, and his wifes death hasnt exactly improved his reputation. In fact, the local gossipmongers think he might be losing his mind. Their bless-your-heart...
Author
Series
Ranjit Singh novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"NYC taxi driver Ranjit Singh has 10 days to prove his innocence... Bollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours before. Ranjit's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a statue of the elephant god Ganesh used to grotesquely smash the actress' beautiful face. Caught on film leaving the apartment alone, Ranjit is accused by the NYPD as an accessory to murder. Ranjit's only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Berger has been accepted at least on the surface by some of the posh families in the small enclave to which he's moved - even his open affair with the beautiful black policewoman is looked upon peaceably. But when a member of the small group of men who gather for early-morning walks is found dead, the subsequent investigation, involving both Mitch and Desiree, opens a very large container of personal evil that has no place in any society."--...
14) Mary, Mary
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner vision
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
FBI agent Alex Cross is after a serial murderer who chooses as his victims women who've neglected their children for successful careers in the entertainment industry. He describes the murders in overheated e-mails he addresses to his victims but sends to hapless entertainment columnist Arnold Griner, signing them "Mary Smith."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper Donavan returns home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at the family bakery, the Icing on the Cupcake. Piper is pleased to be preparing the cake for the upcoming wedding of her friend Glenna Brooks, the star of A Little Rain Must Fall ... but then a cyanide poisoning of one of Glenna's co-stars and her former lover, Travis York, threatens to derail the wedding....
16) Killing Kelly
Author
Series
Valentine Valley (Heather Graham) volume 3
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
17) A star is dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ageless Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women onstage, fires her entourage - not for the first time - and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. After she collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, she ignores the advice of her doctors and discharges...
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