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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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A novel on the witness protection program. The heroine is Lacey Farrell of New York, a real estate agent who witnesses a murder. The police relocate her to Minneapolis, but she is lonely, makes phone calls to her mother and the killer finds out.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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Kay Scarpetta, despite her busy schedule, has offered her services to New York City's Medical Examiner. Her increased visibility seems to precipitate unsettling events. She is asked live on CNN about the case of Hannah Starr, who has vansihed and is presumed dead. During the same telecast she receives a call-in from a former psychiatrist patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns home after the show, she finds a package, possibly a bomb, waiting...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.
24) See How They Run
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c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Somewhere outside New York City, a glittering party is under way at the palatial home of Dr. David Strauss' parents. But the affair turns suddenly tragic when, as Strauss looks on in horror, gunmen burst through the door and murder his wife.
25) Long time gone
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After more than twenty years of distinguished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team or, as it's more commonly referred, the SHIT squad. But the more things change, the more they stay the same. An eyewitness to a fifty-year-old murder has just come forward, and Beau has been hand-picked to lead the investigation. While undergoing hypnotherapy,...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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More mysterious cases for "America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers" to solve for the standard twenty-five-cent fee. Solutions are included at the back of the book.
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
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"Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law - lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once." "Until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved. Then Grace comes to him, past and...
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"A beautiful woman goes to extremes to rid herself of her stalker, a daughter begs her father not to go fishing in an area where there have been a series of brutal killings, a contemporary of the playwright William Shakespeare vows to avenge his family's ruin and Jeffery Deaver's most beloved character, criminalist Lincoln Rhyme, is back to solve a chilling Christmastime disappearance" -- Publisher.
29) Eggnog murder
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An omnibus of novels by Lee Hollis, Leslie Meier and Barbara Ross. With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine - until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog . . .
30) Spider Bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 13
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John Lowery was declared dead in 1968--the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice? Taking the remains to JPAC in Hawaii for reanalysis, Tempe is joined by her colleague and ex-lover Detective Andrew Ryan...
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Cat Who volume 4, 5, 6
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1993.
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Three early novels of sleuthing Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum
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[2010]
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A new collection of stories by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother. Which of them will win? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal...
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The Garden of Eden -- Open house -- Bull's-eye -- A woman of mystery -- The stalker -- Mummy and Jack -- Bonding -- Discards -- Tendrils of love -- Malibu dog -- The back page -- Mr. Barton's head case -- Hot water -- Free parking -- The luck of the draw -- Small miracles -- The summer of my womanhood.
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Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan's office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble's sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company...
35) Victim Six
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"The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common --- except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture...a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust. but the dying has only just begun. And the next victim will be the most shocking of all..." -- Publisher's description.
36) Purl up and die
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"Kelly Flynn and the Lambspun knitters must unravel the truth from the lies to clear a friend's son suspected of murder."--
37) Sacred ground
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[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
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PI Jennie Talldeer investigates an explosion on a construction site which was an Indian burial ground. Indian activists are suspected, but in fact the culprits are evil spirits. Talldeer, an Osage Indian, has to resort to her training as a shaman.
38) False Prophet
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When Lilah Brecht, the beautiful if unstable owner of a popular health spa, is found beaten, raped, and robbed in her own home, L.A. detective Peter Decker takes the case. Lilah claims to have psychic powers, which Decker finds difficult be believe. And when a family member is murdered, he gets the distinct impression that Lilah, her faded actress mother and even her brothers are keeping secrets and starring in their own home movie of deception...
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c2009, 2010
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"An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game."-Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son. "The reigning King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey's Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon...