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1) Rogue lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who’s also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends from heaven as they struggle to cope with her murder.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Bosch takes up the trail of a twenty-year-old case involving the death of a teenaged girl.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Claire Limyè Lanmè — Claire of the Sea Light — is an enchanting child born into love and tragedy in Ville Rose, Haiti. Claire’s mother died in childbirth, and on each of her birthdays Claire is taken by her father, Nozias, to visit her mother’s grave. Nozias wonders if he should give away his young daughter to a local shopkeeper, who lost a child of her own, so that Claire can have a better life. But on the night of Claire’s seventh birthday,...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 20
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to locate a four-year-old girl's remains and find the men who killed her.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Buenos Aires 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Gunther -- like the Nazis he has always despised -- has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Peron government. But the tough, fast talking ex-Berlin detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low. The local police pressure Bernie into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up gruesomely mutilated. What's more, her murder just might be linked to a missing German...
9) Promise me
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past six years Myron has been leading a quiet life, much of it at his parents' old house in Livingston, N.J. A new girlfriend, Ali Wilder, a 9/11 widow, is helping to bring him out of his shell. Concerned that Ali's teenage daughter, Erin, and Erin's friend, Aimee Biel, might fall in with the wrong crowd, Myron gives them his contact information in case either of them feels she needs help. Aimee later calls him in the middle of the night for...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 10
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals--but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 16
Language
English
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Description
Agatha is hired to find out whether a man's wife is cheating on him. She also offers to investigate the death of a missing teenager free of charge. The man is then poisoned and his wife hires Agatha to find the real killer after she is accused of murdering her husband.
12) Turning angel
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
501 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Penn Cage is shocked to discover that his best friend Drew Elliott was involved with Kate Townsend, a recently-murdered student of their alma mater St. Stephen's Prep, and may be accused of killing her. Although his instincts counsel against it, Penn agrees to defend Drew, but before he can begin, both men are drawn into a web of blackmail and violence.
13) The dead run
Author
Series
Jess Galvan novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On both sides of the border, girls are going missing and bodies are beginning to surface. It’s a deadly epidemic of crime that plunges a small-town police chief into a monster of an investigation he's not equipped to handle. An ancient evil has returned, and now everyone — the innocent and the guilty — must face their deepest terrors.
Author
Series
Lena Jones mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
While scouting locations for a film documentary on the Arizona's Apache Wars, private investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn, discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child's death evokes memories of Lena's own rough childhood. Clashing with the local law, Lena's investigation uncovers a small town with a big secret. Los Perdidos is not the Eden it first appears. Founded by the descendants of...
15) The woods
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Paul Copeland lost his only sister when four teenagers disappeared from the woods near summer camp when he should have been watching out for them. None were ever seen again. Now his life has been thrown into turmoil when a dead body turns at the morgue. It is the grown-up corpse of one of the missing boys from two decades ago. The question is: could his sister still be alive? And can he find absolution?
16) Things in jars
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The sooty streets of Victorian London are crawling with nefarious characters, and Bridie Devine--female detective extraordinaire--must confront her most remarkable puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick. Winding her way through a mystery as labyrinthine as the city streets, Bridie won't rest until she finds Christabel, even if it means unearthing a past that she'd rather keep buried"--
17) Random in death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
18) After Anna
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn’t seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she’s even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she'd lost forever, her only daughter Anna. Maggie and Noah know that...
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Language
English
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Description
He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear... Four years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her -- until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the...
Author
Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won't tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesn't appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can't be matched to an identity. Six years later, still unidentified, she is living in a secure children's home with a new name, Evie Cormac. When she initiates a court case demanding...
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