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1) Sixkill
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Series
Spenser novels volume 39
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The final novel from Robert Parker. Bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. In the course of the investigation, Spenser encounters Jumbo's bodyguard: a young, former football-playing Native American named Zebulon Sixkill. Sixkill acts tough, but Spenser sees something more within the young man. Despite the odd circumstances,...
2) Black widow
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Doc Ford novels volume 15
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English
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A cult of death.
A weapon of apocalyptic horror.
Juan Cabrillo must stop them both.
THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Some women you love.
Some women you hate.
Some women you survive.
Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette party, and they want big money to keep it quiet. When Ford investigates,...
A weapon of apocalyptic horror.
Juan Cabrillo must stop them both.
THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Some women you love.
Some women you hate.
Some women you survive.
Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette party, and they want big money to keep it quiet. When Ford investigates,...
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Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 8
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English
Description
Parker and Stone-back with another New York Times bestseller
When the sun sets in Paradise, the women get nervous. A Peeping Tom is on the loose. According to the notes he sends Police Chief Jesse Stone, he's about to take his obsession one step further.
When the sun sets in Paradise, the women get nervous. A Peeping Tom is on the loose. According to the notes he sends Police Chief Jesse Stone, he's about to take his obsession one step further.
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Having hidden the truth about a past colleague's violation, former Special Forces agent Nate Romanowski is targeted by a determined killer who threatens Joe Pickett's life as part of a violent plot.
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 21
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English
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After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, but Arrington has other plans for Stone - including introducing him to the child he fathered many years earlier.
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. Talented but rude, and widely disliked, K. T. Harris is at the centre of a crime scene and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster to step into the role she was born to play: cop.
10) Hot mahogany
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 15
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
Hired by his CIA boss to protect his older brother, an Army intelligence operative who is suffering from amnesia, Stone Barrington learns about his charge's talent for restoring antiques and his links to a haunting event in Vietnam more than thirty yearsearlier.
11) Heat lightning
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Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Working on a case involving a pair of murders in which the victims are found with lemons in their mouths, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers struggles to find a connection that could prevent additional killings.
13) Stolen prey
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Series
Prey series volume 22
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas' cop instincts - it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice-president at a big bank. It just doesn't seem...
14) Red mist
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information, not only on Fielding, but on a string of grisly killings. Print run 1,000,000.
15) Death benefit
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English
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Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the twenty-five-trillion dollar life-insurance industry. Meanwhile Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall - two medical residents - are working on cutting-edge diabetes research, but when their mentor suddenly dies, they launch a quiet investigation and their findings are shocking. Print run 175,000.
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English
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A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. When she becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. There's murder in the air, and it's Jesse's reputation as an uncompromising defender of the law - and his life - on the line.
18) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
In Alberta, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 24
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
A star-studded gala will be attended by socialites, royalty, and billionaires from overseas - and according to phone conversations intercepted by the NSA, it may also have attracted the attention of international terrorists. To ensure the safety of his guests - and the city of Los Angeles - Stone may have to call in a few favours from his friends at the CIA.
20) Divided in death
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English
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When one of his trusted employees, with whom he had been working on a secret government project, becomes the prime suspect in a double homicide, Irish billionaire Roarke enlists the assistance of Lieutenant Eve Dallas to uncover the truth.
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