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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive. After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht – including two Senate rivals – Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from...
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from a fate worse than death.
Author
Series
Lavender tides volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
"Running for her life in the wake of her mothers murder, Bailey Fleming escapes to the only place she can think ofa remote, dilapidated cabin in Lavender Tides. Intending to finally get to the truth behind the lies of her past, Bailey only finds more questions when bodies are discovered near her cabin hideout along with traces of a dangerous human trafficking ring. In an unlikely partnership with FBI agent Lance Phoenix, Bailey races to understand...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When his fiance is kidnapped by human traffickers, Roman and his ex-military brothers rush to save her before it's too late. Along the way, they team up with Detective Avery, a cop who's been investigating the local trafficking syndicate and fighting the corrupt bureaucracy that has been protecting it.
6) Livia Lone
Author
Series
Livia Lone novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Attending her high-school reunion at the request of her long-estranged friend, Cate, Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, suddenly finds herself investigating Cate's death after she and her husband are run down by a hit-and-run driver.
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Hanna and Liv are backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, they take a temporary job at The Royal Hotel. Soon, Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of control.
Human trafficking, a woman seized by cannibalistic urges, a serial killer with a crush, and a ghostly presence. A horror anthology of four tragic, interlocking, and intertwined stories that take place within one seemingly normal...
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 49
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his apprentice Mattie’s childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim’s demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Treated like an outsider by Ozark Mountain neighbors who regard her mother's disappearance years earlier with suspicion, sixteen-year-old Lucy is further haunted by a friend's murder, which compels her to investigate family secrets and sacrifices.
11) A dangerous game
Author
Series
New York Confidential volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street ... Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it ... Kieran wont sit...
12) The magistrate
Author
Series
Inspector Lu Fei mystery volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A brutal murder investigation with connections to corruption at the very highest level threatens not just the career but also the life of Inspector Lu Fei in Brian Klingborn's latest mystery..."--
"Investigating a brutal murder, Deputy Chief Inspector Lu Fei?—?as someone attacks illegal cyber-sex operations, disposing of the operators and quietly freeing sex trafficked teens from North Korea?—?must connect these different events, with...
13) Purge
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Aliide Truu, an older woman guilty of crimes during the Soviet occupation of Estonia, takes in a young woman, Zara, who is trying to escape a sex-trafficking ring, and as they work through their suspicion, the two rediscover a tragic family history from the past.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse police find the ID card of a prominent local businessman, John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Was the girl an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered? Tempe soon finds herself at the center of a conspiracy...
15) Taken
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When his estranged daughter is kidnapped in Paris, former spy Bryan Mills relies on his skills to bring down the ruthless kidnappers and rescue his daughter.
Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel...
Author
Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Police Chief Josie Gray wakes in the middle of the night, sure that she's heard a car slowly passing by her remote homestead. When she goes outside to check, she discovers a woman, mute with shock and terror, hiding on her porch. And when she explores the field nearby, she comes across the body of another young woman, shot and killed. Located on the border of Texas and Mexico, the small town of Artemis has become a way station for the coyotes who...
Author
Series
Cincinnati novels (Karen Rose) volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Special agents Griffin Davenport and Kate Coppola are on the trail of a depraved criminal. When Special Agent Griffin Decker Davenport opens his eyes after several days in a coma, there is unfinished business still on his mind. Decker is on the cusp of discovering the mastermind behind a human trafficking case, and he and his partner, Special Agent Kate Copolla, are about to get a surprising new lead from a very unlikely source. Eighteen-year-old...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
19) Trade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her seventeen-year-old brother Jorge sets off on a desperate mission to save her. A thrilling story of courage and a devastating exposure of one of the world's most heinous crimes.
When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman, who, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, was manipulated, exploited, and abused as a sex worker; who killed her pimp/father figure-and was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without parole. "I was 11 when I met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life... because he played me perfectly. I was walking home after school... I heard his...
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