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1) Unlucky 13
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Women's Murder Club volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the...
2) Adam
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has been made famous by his arguments that religion is one of society's greatest antagonists. What Daniel doesn't know is that his obsessive pursuit of a serial killer known only as "Eve" will end in his own death at Eve's hand. Twenty minutes later Daniel is resuscitated, only to be haunted by those twenty missing minutes of life. It soon becomes painfully clear that the only way to stop Eve is to recover...
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
4) Jane Steele
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"A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles...
5) Heartsick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Portland detective Archie Sheridan, kidnapped and tortured for ten days by Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer he had hunted for ten years, is having trouble coming to grips with his life since Lowell released him and turned herself in, but he knows he must pull himself together when another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the street.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose. These days, shes more of a cause célèbre than a feared killer, thanks to sensationalist news coverage that has made her a star. Her face graces magazine covers weekly and there have been sightings of her around the world. Most shocking of all, Portland Herald reporter Susan Ward has uncovered a bizarre kind of fan club, which celebrates the number of days shes been free. Archie Sheridan hunted...
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Elizabeth Avery is a stunningly beautiful woman, but her perfectly managed exterior hides the ice cold heart of a killer. She ingeniously manipulates everyone who crosses her path to do exactly as she wishes, from crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, who thinks Elizabeth is her new best friend, to a shy young man Elizabeth persuades to kill for her. Can she be stopped before she reaches her unthinkable, ultimate end-game?
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[2016]
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"Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted--and feared--criminals in the world. Now the notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and is plotting her revenge. Using innocent young women as bait, she will lure her unsuspecting victims into her trap. This time, sheriff detective Kendall Stark and forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman won't be able to stop her. The killing will be filmed....
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Pub. Date
c2011
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Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and New York Times best-selling author Lawrence Block pens gritty crime thrillers that enthrall listeners from beginning to end. Here Block, writing as Jill Emerson, spins a gripping tale of desire and the thirst for revenge. Katherine Ann Tolliver hasn't used her real name in years. She keeps a low profile as she moves from place to place, searching for all the men who got away. Once she finds them, she seduces...
10) LoveMurder
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Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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"When she's called to the murder scene, the last thing San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart is expecting is for Katherine Glass to walk back into her life. Six years earlier, revulsion and fascination had gripped the nation in equal measure, as beautiful, intelligent, charming--and utterly evil--Katherine Glass had been convicted on six counts of Murder One. But the freshly-mutilated corpse in the ground-floor apartment bears all the hallmarks...
11) Sweetheart
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Damaged detective Archie Sheridan is back home in Portland, Ore., trying to resume a normal life. Archie's ties to serial killer Gretchen Lowell still run deep, even if he's stopped their weekly visits in prison. Meanwhile, reporter Susan Ward is finishing an article accusing a beloved U.S. senator of seducing his children's 14-year-old babysitter a decade earlier. When three bodies are discovered in a local parkwhere Archie's team found Gretchen's...
12) Kill you Twice
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[2012]
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Struggling to move past his traumatic encounters with serial killer Gretchen Lowell, Archie Sheridan investigates a murder involving a brutally tortured victim before he is contacted by Lowell, who claims to have inside information about the case.
13) Sweetpea
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Series
Sweetpea novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"I haven't killed anyone for three years, and I thought that when it happened again I'd feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whiskey. But no. Nothing. I had a blissful night's sleep. Didn't wake up at all. And for once, no bad dream either. This morning I feel balanced. Almost sane, for once. Rhiannon is your average girl next door, settled with her boyfriend and little dog, but she's got a killer secret. Although her childhood was haunted...
14) You know her
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Killing Eve meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this lush, savage Southern Gothic about two women: a burgeoning murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her"--
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to...
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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A riveting, character-driven novel about a damaged cop and his obsession with the serial killer who...let him live. Gretchen Lowell tortured Detective Archie Sheridan for ten days, then inexplicably let him go and turned herself in.
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2009
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Portland detective Archie Sheridan hunted Gretchen Lowell for a decade. When they last spoke, Archie agreed not to kill himself if she agreed not to kill anyone else. But when a new body is found accompanied by Gretchen's trademark heart, all bets are off and Archie is forced back into action. Has Gretchen returned to her gruesome ways, or has the cult surrounding her created a whole new evil?