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Alex Cross novels volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most unsettling and unexpected novel of James Patterson's career. When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them. If he does anything to protect them, they will die.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn’t take him down, he may take her out.
“The most popular mystery writer alive.”—The New York Times
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam...
“The most popular mystery writer alive.”—The New York Times
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam...
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English
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The quaint village of St Mary Mead has been glamourized by the presence of screen queen Marina Gregg, who has taken up residence in preparation for her comeback. But when a local fan is poisoned, Marina finds herself starring in a real-life mystery-supported with scene-stealing aplomb by Jane Marple, who suspects that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone else. But who? If it was meant for Marina, then why? And before the final fade-out, who...
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 20
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English
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When Jake Marlowe, a co-owner of Downeast Mortgage in Tinker's Cove, Maine, is murdered, and his partner, Ben Scriber, begins receiving death threats after claiming to be visited by Marlowe's ghost, Ludy Stone is on the case.
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Little, Brown and Company
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English
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A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tt̤i, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her....
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Maggie Hope mysteries volume 3
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English
Description
Recruited by a spy organization separate even from MI-6 to perform her most dangerous feat yet, American ex-pat Maggie Hope, given a new identity, is parachuted into Berlin where she must destroy a part of the German war machine.
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Inspector Erlendur volume 8
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Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne book
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English
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Feeling unfulfilled in his career after attending a school reunion, Sigurdur Óli struggles with setbacks in his relationship and position in the Icelandic police department only to have a favor for a friend go wrong, catapulting him into the middle of agrisly murder case.
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Their most challenging and dangerous case ever begins with an astonishing request from a thirteen-year-old prospective client. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago. It seemed like an open-and-shut case. The accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene, his blood was on Fiona, and her blood was on him. The most damning evidence was Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned....
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"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 17
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English
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When the shogun is forced to claim an illegitimate son as his heir after the death of his only child, Sano Ichiro, believing the malevolent youth to be part of a plot to seize power, risks the safety and honor of his family to uncover the truth.
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Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 22
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English
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The discovery of a murdered body disguised as a cornfield scarecrow becomes the first of several disturbing events in a scenic Virginia community, where Harry and her husband prepare for the local Halloween festivities and uncover a lucrative conspiracy.
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Ella Clah mysteries volume 18
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
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English
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"Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job much harder--no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches. Harry's latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust...
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Penny Brannigan mysteries volume 5
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English
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Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend DCI Gareth Davis, there to give a talk on theft prevention. When the bishop's secretary dies of a suspicious case of food poisoning, Davies leads the investigation. As the conference continues, another body is found in the beautiful library itself, and Penny must once...
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Dexter books volume 7
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Doubleday
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English
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Hollywood gets more than it bargained for when television's hottest star arrives at the Miami Police Department and develops an intense, professional interest in a camera-shy blood spatter analyst named Dexter Morgan.
17) Already dead
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Sphere
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English
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Detective Ben Cooper and Diane Fry return in another page-turning thriller from a writer at the top of his game. Set in the stunning countryside of the Peak District, and absolutely drenched with atmospheric tension, this case contains more action and twists than ever before, holding the reader in suspense until the very last page.
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 13
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English
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Faced with a series of dark occurrences that are linked to a twenty-year-old murder, private investigator Cork O' Connor must stop a vengeful force before his family and friends pay the ultimate price.
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