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21) Silkworm
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Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
23) Nowhere to run
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
25) High country
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Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed...
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish.
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English
Description
Twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother. It's been a rough year for Siobhán, but it's about to get rougher. One morning they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. It's up to Siobhán to solve the crime.
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda's motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades...
30) The reversal
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Series
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English
Description
After years as a respected defense attorney, Mickey Haller continued his stellar career as a state prosecutor by convicting the infamous Jason Jessup with a brutal child murder. Now, 24 years later, DNA evidence clears Jessup of the crime. Convinced of Jessup's guilt, Haller calls on LAPD Detective Harry Bosch to uncover the truth before the killing resumes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie's name is on the killer's list. Short on time to provide evidence proving the killer's identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it's time for her to choose.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Trenton, New Jersey's favorite used car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he's out on bail and has missed his date in court--and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city's hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer's whereabouts. To top things...
33) Naked in death
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Series
Language
English
Description
Three young women have been brutally murdered. After 10 years on the New York City police force, Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better than to become emotionally involved with her work. But the prime suspect is a suave, sophisticated Irish billionaire with a mysterious past and she finds herself powerless to resist his charm.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her father and sisters at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who...
35) Hot blooded
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English
Description
A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy hotel room in New Orleans' French Quarter. Miles away, on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain, late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening phone call. Who would think to link the two? Detective Rick Bentz is charged with the task of connecting the events.
36) The maid
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English
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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When he investigates the murder of an actress outside of her Beverly Hills home, FBI agent Alex Cross learns that the attack was the latest in a series of celebrity killings linked to the elusive Mary Smith.
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Series
Will Trent series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton and Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Will Trent have their work cut out for them when the prime suspect in a shoreside murder winds up dead in his holding cell.
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When celebrated couple Isa and Ethan Bailey become the victims of a murder in which no evidence is left at the scene, Lindsay Boxer begins an investigation, while reporter Cindy Thomas probes the killing of a preacher who may not have been as saintly as he appeared.
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English
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The murder of Colonel Protheroe -- shot through the head -- is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be 'doing the world at large a favour, ' is a suspect -- the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless...
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