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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them ... Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on,...
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Language
English
Appears on list
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie! More than 100 million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie.
Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything
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Language
English
Description
After the murder of Alice Hayward and the suicide of her husband, Reverend Stephen Drew flees the pulpit and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about angels. Heather, identifying deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, mentors the young girl but soon suspects that Alice's husband may not have killed himself ... and that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.
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.
5) Dark places
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Libby Day was just seven years old when her Satan-worshiping older brother massacred her entire family while she hid in a cupboard. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over twenty years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now people have moved on, the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance at a club, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary club -- the Kill...
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English
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Irene Stenson has not been back to her home town since the death of her parents, but a cryptic email prompts her to return. With the help of the compelling Luke Danner, Irene investigates the death of her former high school friend, Pamela Webb, and is finally able to piece together what happened to her parents that fateful summer night.
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Language
English
Description
"An out-of-work British actress pays the rent on her New York City apartment the only way she can: as a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers, hired to entrap straying husbands. When the cops begin investigating one of her targets for murdering his wife, and potentially others, they ask her to lure the suspect into a confession. But with the actress pretending to be someone she isn't, differentiating the decoy from the prey becomes impossible-- and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist
A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak.
In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness....
Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist
A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak.
In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness....
Author
Series
Detective Inspector Joona Linna volume 1
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
503 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tumba, Sweden. A triple homicide, all the victims from the same family, captivates Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the grisly murders -- against the wishes of the national police. The killer is at large, and it appears that the elder sister of the family escaped the carnage; it seems only a matter of time until she, too, is murdered. But where can Linna begin? The only surviving witness is an intended victim -- the boy...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperback
Pub. Date
2001, 2000
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Hannah Keller, J.J. Fielding is an obsession. As a Miami police detective Hannah had been closing in on the crooked banker, only to see him slip through her fingers, taking with him a fortune in cash belonging to the Cali drug cartel. Then she found her parents brutally murdered -- apparently by Fielding. Despite Hannah's efforts, he was never found, the case never solved. Three years later, the FBI remember her obsession as they step up the hunt...
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Language
English
Description
"An elderly man with dementia, once acquitted of a terrible murder and suspected in many others, is removed from his assisted-living facility by a woman he does not recognize--a woman who claims to be his long-lost daughter. She takes him on a road trip across Texas, searching for answers to her own burning questions. Following the paths of vanished women, she attempts to discover the truth about this man. Does he really have dementia? Is he a murderer?...
14) Carolina moon
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Language
English
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Returning as an adult to her hometown of Progress, South Carolina, Tory Bodeen plans to put the past behind her and open a stylish home-design shop. Following her friend, Hope's, brutal murder--unsolved to this day--she is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of that terrible night. But her return will be more difficult and frightening than she ever expected because Hope's killer is nearby as well.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and...
Author
Series
Loose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
468, 7 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The worlds of business, politics and crime collide when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night -- one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That's the official version of events. But when a family member, Gina Rafferty, starts asking questions, this notion quickly unravels. Devastated by her loss, Gina's grief is tempered, and increasingly fueled, by anger -- because...
17) The king of lies
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.
Author
Publisher
Wildblue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine, but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her 13-year-old son Paris murdered her beloved 4-year-old daughter, Ella. Charity goes through intense grief at the loss of her daughter, while at the same time trying to understand why her son would have done something as horrific as this, and how she could...
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the creator of the acclaimed Alex Delaware series comes a tour de force standalone novel that illustrates perfectly why “Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller” (People). Includes bonus material!
A brilliant, deeply dedicated psychologist, Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches—perhaps...
A brilliant, deeply dedicated psychologist, Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches—perhaps...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
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