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1) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Gideon Crew volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime--and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Gunsmith volume 476
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A small boy's parents are killed in his Texas home while he is hiding beneath the floorboards. Clint Adams comes upon the scene, buries the man and woman, then finds the little boy. He takes it upon himself to deliver the boy to his Uncle, in California, while being tracked by the killers, who think the boy might be able to identify them.
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English
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In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna...
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Series
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English
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of An Unthinkable Thing and Hideaway comes a tense and page-turning novel of contemporary suspense, where memories prove deceptive and as dangerous as frightening new threats of revenge. Molly is trying to make a fresh start with her teenage son after her divorce. But she is feeling very much squeezed between her son's acting out and the challenges of caring for her beloved father, recently felled by a stroke. Moving back...
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Language
English
Description
Thomas H. Cook offers one of his most compelling novels ever in Sandrine's Case, in which a college professor falls in love with his wife all over again… while on trial for her murder. Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He was a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she a brilliant, beautiful, bohemian with limitless talents and imagination. On the surface their relationship and marriage seemed perfectly tranquil: jobs at the...
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Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims-- women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
School dayz: As Terry McGinnis takes up the mantle of the Dark knight, he finds the pressures of high school just as demanding; Spellbound: Terry confronts evil in the form of the hypnotic Spellbinder and the death-dealing Curare; Disappearing Inque: The Gotham city nights give birth to a brand-new Super-Villain. She is a deadly, shape-shifting industrial saboteur named Inque; Tech wars: Our future world becomes even more dangerous for the new Batman...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A woman seeks revenge for her father's murder in this tense installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton's Gunfighter series. Eight years ago, vicious bandits killed Marshall Tobias Cassidy and left his daughter for dead. They thought they got away clean. Now a contest to determine the top shootist in the Wild West is set to take place in Fortune's Cross and lady gunslinger Hope Cassidy has come to town...only it's not for glory, it's for vengeance....
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp-from her own memory,...
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English
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Tragedy strikes a quiet Dorset town when the bodies of Sarah and Charles Drummond are discovered in their home one morning while their two young children, Abby and Mia, sleep upstairs. The police seem certain that Charles killed his wife before taking his own life, and the girls' grandmother, Cicely Fairfax, makes sure that they are shielded from the horrific truth. Until now. Sixteen years later, an accident at work leads Mia to have disturbing flashbacks...
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Series
Bitter Creek series volume 7
Language
English
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Picking up a pretty woman, Grace, at his favorite bar, FBI agent Breed Grayhawk is unaware that she has just finished jail time for murdering her parents and is breaking into her late father's colleagues' homes in search of evidence that will clear her name.
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Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen years ago, Heidi White's parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth--if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She's also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected...
17) Girls like us
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's...
18) Anything for you
Author
Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 3
Language
English
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"Critically acclaimed author Saul Black returns with a heart-racing thriller in which a brutal murder forces one woman to reckon with her own past--and her future. On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto the hardwood floor, clinging to life. The victim, Adam Grant,...
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