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22) The king of lies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
North Carolina criminal defense attorney Jackson "Work" Pickens is struggling to build a stable career on the emotional wreckage of his personal life. His marriage is falling apart, his sister is psychologically disturbed, he's struggling to overcome the death of his mother and his father has been missing for over a year. Suspicion falls on Work when his father's corpse is discovered, forcing him to track down the real killer.
23) Angel fire
Author
Series
Lydia Strong mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
26) Road to paradise
Author
Series
Road to Perdition novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
28) Winterland
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When two men from the same family die on the same night, Gina Rafferty is filled with grief and a growing anger that drives her to find the truth behind these deaths.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Moments after discovering that her husband has been having an affair, a woman driving along a winding country lane strikes and kills a woman on a bicycle and then drives away, in a psychological portrait of the repercussions of deception.
32) The tea rose
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Griffin
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York.
Author
Series
Walker family volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The hunter is free to kill again—and hour by hour, he draws nearer . . . The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'odham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd—a teacher on the reservation—put Carlisle behind bars, and now she can't ignore the dark, mystical signs that say a predator has returned to prowl the Arizona desert. Because no matter where Diana...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameron lives it. After growing up tough on a New Mexico ranch, then driving an ambulance along the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision and stare down men maddened by shell shock. Now, still suffering lingering trauma from the Great War, she sets off for Africa, determined to fulfill a man's dying wish ... and never expecting to become involved in murder.--Publisher...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime; the dark, taciturn son of the victim and the unexpectedly captivating daughter of the main suspect. Over the next twenty years we follow their lives as Sasagaki pursues the case -- which remains unsolved -- to the point...
Author
Series
Chicago saga volume 1
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister’s body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he’s looking for payment he’s owed from her. Lauren’s torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An elderly man with dementia, once acquitted of a terrible murder and suspected in many others, is removed from his assisted-living facility by a woman he does not recognize--a woman who claims to be his long-lost daughter. She takes him on a road trip across Texas, searching for answers to her own burning questions. Following the paths of vanished women, she attempts to discover the truth about this man. Does he really have dementia? Is he a murderer?...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - Pikeville's notorious defense attorney - devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself - the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Earl Hammond, the wealthy patriarch of a family of ranchers, lies dead, shot just as he was about to donate his Coquina Ranch to the state to preserve it from developers. Spearheading the plan to save this environmental treasure was Thorn, a reluctant heir to a secret family fortune, who now finds himself in terrible danger as well. A pair of deviant brothers, both contract killers, kidnap him and drag him to a game preserve, surrounded by herds...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Haunted by her dreams, Mary Russell arrives in San Francisco in 1924 to settle her parents' estate. But she quickly encounters a few surprises and learns there may be a great deal more to her childhood in this city than she ever knew. As Mary tries to cobble the pieces of her shadowy past together, her husband Holmes wonders if she may be repressing vital memories. And one thing seems certain--someone wants Mary's remembrances to stay buried."
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