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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" -- provided by publisher.
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Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey...
3) Drop Shot
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 2
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English
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Investigating the killing of a burned-out tennis star, sports agent Myron Bolitar uncovers a connection between the victim and a rising star from the wrong side of the tracks, while a corrupt senator and organized crime watch his every move.
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English
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"The Dollhouse. That's what we boys like to call it. The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you." Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and where a present-day journalist...
5) Rogue lawyer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
6) Scared stiff
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Kensington Books
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English
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After discovering the dead body of Shannon Tolliver on Halloween night, Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston and her boss, Izzy, use their razor sharp medical skills to catch a clever killer who is trying to frame Shannon's ex-husband for the crime.
7) White night
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Dresden files volume 9
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English
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Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago’s magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Someone is targeting the members of the city’s supernatural underclass—those who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left...
Someone is targeting the members of the city’s supernatural underclass—those who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, its up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose . . . Cops can make mistakes, even when theyre not rookies. If anyone knows that its Cass Raines, who took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation...
9) The closers
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
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English
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In Los Angeles in 1988 a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound. Although a by the book investigation proved it was unlikely a suicide, no one was ever charged. Now Detective Harry Borsch is back with the LAPD with the mission to close unsolved cases. He starts with this girls case. As he begins to reopen the case it ripples resistance...and it's coming from the Police force. Old enemies are close...
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller investigates after a former client, a prostitute who had left the life for the straight and narrow, turns up dead, in the fifth novel of the crime series following The Fifth Witness.
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Two women from opposite sides of the country are brought together by violent acts of the same man, and become allies and sisters in arms as they pursue the justice that would otherwise elude them in one of the most acclaimed, highly-anticipated thrillers of the year. Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll—author of the bestselling novel Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaption...
12) Dark places
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful...
13) 7th heaven
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Women's Murder Club volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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While preparing for their upcoming nuptials, Lady Charlotte Sloane and the Earl of Wrexford, while attending a symposium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, are drawn into a murder investigation involving a momentous medical discovery that someone will kill for.
15) Fractured
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Will Trent series volume 2
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A superior crime novel.”—The Washington Post
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Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC
Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
16) Mycroft Holmes
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2015.
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English
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When his fiancée abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.
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English
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"Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now sheas the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior sheas long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman is leaking client information, determined to bring the...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Based on a true story--Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she gets the best grades), and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants and together they draw up lists of people...
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"A new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark. After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who...
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