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Shades of London volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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New York Times bestseller Maureen Johnson takes on Jack the Ripper in this captivating paranormal thriller!
The day that Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school is also the day a series of brutal murders breaks out over the city, killings mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper spree of more than a century ago. Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are...
The day that Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school is also the day a series of brutal murders breaks out over the city, killings mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper spree of more than a century ago. Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are...
Author
Series
Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Working as a consultant for a Baltimore newspaper, p.i. Tess Monaghan seems far removed from the unsolved slaying of a young federal prosecutor--until her well-meaning boyfriend, Crow, brings a street kid into their lives, a juvenile con artist who doesn't even realize he holds an important key to the sensational homicide. But Tess's ethical decision to protect the boy's identity no matter what could have dire consequences--especially when one of...
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 7
Language
English
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Never get attached -- private nurse and protected witness Claire Turner lives by this motto. Fleeing a treacherous past, she knows no other way. Never give up -- In the twilight of his life, George Bellamy makes it his final wish to reconcile with an estranged brother. He and Claire journey to Willow Lake -- where it all went wrong for him fifty years ago. Never let go -- George's grandson Ross is ruled by a fierce devotion to family and a deep mistrust...
Author
Publisher
Bay Back Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
264, 10 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Iversonś life changes in an instant. He returns home one day to find that his wife Lexy has died under strange circumstances. The only witness was their dog, Lorelei, whose anguished barking brought help to the scene--but too late...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 6
Publisher
Signet Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Physical Desc
452 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy becomes involved in the case of his career when his wife, Frannie, called before the grand jury in a murder investigation, is put in jail for refusing to reveal a secret entrusted to her by the father of some of her children's classmates.
26) Open season
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English
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On her thirty-fourth birthday, Daisy Minor decides to make over her entire life. The small-town librarian has had it with her boring clothes, her ordinary looks, and nearly a decade without so much as a date. It's time to get a life -- and a sex life. The perennial good girl, Daisy transforms herself into a party girl extraordinaire -- dancing the night away at clubs, laughing and flirting with abandon -- and she's declared open season for manhunting....
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English
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Marissa Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies. Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her. When Marissa is found brutally murdered, with her young daughter, Haley, resting her head on her mother's bloody breast, she sends the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Already on edge with the upcoming trial of the See-No-Evil killer, residents are shocked by reports of the crime scene, which might not have been discovered...
Author
Series
Petra Connor novels volume 1
Language
English
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Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She'd divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No. 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy - Billy...
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
viii, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
30) Nightcrawling
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison
But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent—which has more than doubled—and to keep the nine-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding...
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Series
Dexter volume 6
Publisher
Doubleday Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure . . . in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
282 p. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Erika Leighton is on vacation with her family in the mountains of Colorado. When she drives to a nearby town to get supplies, she unwittingly steps into a storm of events that threaten to alter her life forever. The name of the little town is Pineview -- known for its down-home hospitality, but infamous for a brutal murder years earlier by Butch Snyder, a troubled local boy. Because of an anonymous but very detailed tip, Butch was caught and justice...
33) Witness seeker
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
403 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
His name is Chance Gambel. His occupation: Witness Seeker. It's a perilous profession where he is hired to search for witnesses to crimes so that they might testify for or against the accused in trials held throughout the frontier territories of the Southwest, circa 1880. He embarks on his most perilous assignment when he teams with a mysterious Mexican named Francisco Velasquez to search for the vicious outlaw gang leader, Silvano Ramos, who brutally...
34) The breakdown
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside ― the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably...
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...
36) Blue heaven
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English
Description
"A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder--four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's...
Author
Series
Quinn and Costa thriller volume 5
Language
English
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Description
When a key witness goes missing, Quinn & Costa must find her before a killer silences her for good…
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness—a whistleblower who might be the key to everything—has disappeared.
After...
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Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Who is Evie, the girl with no past, running from? She was discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Her ability to tell when someone is lying helped Cyrus crack an impenetrable case ... Now, the closer Cyrus gets to uncovering answers about Evie's dark history, the more he exposes Evie to danger, giving her no choice but to run. Ultimately, both will have to decide if some secrets are better left buried and some monsters...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter, Jessie, are swept along in the jostling crowd onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Arriving at the scene, DI Vera...
40) Deputized
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
417 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Frank Whittaker is just an unemployed trail hand trying to recover from a night of celebration when he witnesses a bank robbery and is deputized into a posse to track the outlaws. Frank is reluctant and resentful until he finds a way to make money at it by signing on as a guide for a U.S. marshal in pursuit of the same bank robbers, Dandy Jim Beudreaux and his gang. Marshal Dayton Howard and his manhunters leave a bloody trail in their pursuit of...
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