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1) Phantom prey
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English
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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.
2) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
810L
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English
Description
In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives". Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs...
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Ex-narcotics detective Elena Estes wants nothing more than to live in peace training her horses, but after she finds the abused body of a young female co-worker, she launches an investigation that leads to the Russian mob and a powerful cadre of Palm Beach bad boys.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are back, and struggling in the emotional aftermath of the events that brought them to the brink in Hour Game. Dogged by personal demons, Maxwell agrees to treatment in a psychiatric institution after barely surviving a violent barroom brawl. And King, to right their partnership, accepts an offer to investigate a murder in a scientific think tank named Babbage Town. Feeling cured, Michelle joins him on the case, and...
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Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
When a number of rich men come to a mysterious end, and a young investment banker dies of a supposed heart attack, FBI agent John O'Hara believes it is the work of a cold-blooded killer. Turning his eye to the only witness - the young banker's beautiful and secretive widow - O'Hara thinks he's closing in, but he's not sure whether he's pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession.
8) Hard truth
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 13
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English
Appears on list
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Park Ranger Anna Pigeon comes face-to-face with the dark side of humanity when she investigates the disappearance of three young girls in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Everyman's library volume 35
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
850L
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English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
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Regan Reilly mysteries volume 10
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English
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L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly gets a call from her best gal pal, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last girls' weekend before Regan ties the knot with Jack no relation Reilly, and so she happily packs her bags.
12) Long time gone
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English
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New York Times best-selling master J. A. Jance brings back J. P. Beaumont, one of the most enduring and endearing characters in contemporary fiction, in a riveting story about a shocking, long-buried case of murder.
After more than 20 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 to,...
13) The apprentice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A series of shocking crimes that end in abduction and death terrorizes Boston during a boiling summer. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her--literally and figuratively--Detective Jane Rizzoli is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence on a murderous disciple.
14) Scarpetta
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The editor of The Review of Applied Ethics and a curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
17) Spanish dagger
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Berkley Prime Crime
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English
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Between the herb shop, the catering business, and a weekend paper-making class, China Bayles has her work cut out for her. And now China's half-brother is opening up old wounds, trying to investigate their father's supposedly accidental death, and her husband is taking on the case-meaning she's just bound to get involved.
18) Bad business
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Spenser novels volume 31
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English
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Hired by Marlene Cowley to find out whether her husband, Trent, is cheating on her, Spenser soon realizes that the two-timing husband has hired an investigator of his own. Even more shocking for Spenser is the discovery that the Cowleys are a part of an intimate circle that regularly tunes in to the talk-show host Darin O'Mara's unconventional--and possibly deadly--views on cross-connubial relationships. To complicate matters even more, a murder occurs...
19) The killing hour
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English
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“[Lisa] Gardner keeps us guessing till the end!”—Los Angeles Times
Death always strikes on time.
Each time he strikes, he takes two victims. He waits for the first victim to be discovered—a body containing all the clues investigators need to find the second victim, who counts the seconds to a slow but certain death.
Now two girls have disappeared and the deadly countdown begins again. Rookie FBI...
Death always strikes on time.
Each time he strikes, he takes two victims. He waits for the first victim to be discovered—a body containing all the clues investigators need to find the second victim, who counts the seconds to a slow but certain death.
Now two girls have disappeared and the deadly countdown begins again. Rookie FBI...
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Women's Murder Club volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Patterson's second installment of his Women's Murder Club series finds the ladies in search of a killer who sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church, killing one. Later, an elderly woman is found hanged. Nothing, however, can prepare the ladies for the twisted logic behind the killer's choice of victims.
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