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2) The Target
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Accepting a perilous, high-risk assignment from the president to take down a global menace, assassins Will Robie and Jessica Reel face a crisis in Reel's personal life while being stalked by an unknown new adversary.
Author
Language
English
Description
Kate Burkholder, a former Amish resident of Painters Mill, is returning as police chief sixteen years after a series of brutal murders took place there, but when a new victim is found under her watch, she struggles with a secret that could hurt both her and her family.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sister Bernadette Ignatius (the former Bernie Sullivan), Mother Superior at the coastal Connecticut Star of the Sea Academy, travels to Dublin with Tom Kelly, the academy's ombudsman, seeking James, the son they gave up over 20 years ago. In a parallel narrative set up in a prologue, young James and Kathleen, raised together as orphans, are devastated when they are forced to separate when Kathleen is 13. While Bernie and Tom look for James (now calling...
5) Look again
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, the child looks exactly like her adopted son, Will, which prompts Ellen to launch an investigation that ultimately threatens both of their lives.
6) Stalemate
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While working on determining the identity of a murdered child, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is given a reconstruction assignment by a ruthless and sinister man who is willing to ensure her cooperation by any means necessary.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local "resurrectionists"--those who plunder graveyards and harvest...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex...
Author
Series
In Death volume 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves eighty people dead, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bar's patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that a sinister killer administered through an airborne method.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mordecai Tremaine arrives at the country retreat of one of the Benedict Grame on Christmas Eve, he discovers that the revelries are in full swing -- but so too are tensions among the guests. When midnight strikes, the party goers discover that presents aren't the only things nestled under the tree. There's a dead body, too. A dead body that bears striking resemblance to Father Christmas. With the snow falling and suspicions flying, it's up to...
11) Of all sad words
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Dan Rhodes finds himself in the hot seat after persuading the county commissioners to open a Citizen's Sheriff's Academy when the students become the prime suspects in the explosion of a mobile home and a dead man is found nearby.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
469 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Fethering! Sleuthing neighbours Jude and Carole uncover secrets and lies in the horsing community in this quirky, light-hearted British cozy mystery.
When healer Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables one evening - to meet her unusually horse-shaped new client and his owner Sonia Dalrymple - she does not expect to stumble across a man lying in the darkness. Walter Fleet, co-owner of the stables, has been viciously stabbed to death.
Sleuthing...
13) Bad blood
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In the middle of a trial involving a businessman charged with murdering his wife, Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is summoned to investigate an explosion of unknown origin 600 feet below street level when it is traced back to her case.
14) Shell game
Author
Series
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 19
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 612 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East. In Shell Game, nothing...
15) Under orders
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When three corpses turn up on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day, including a jockey who had earlier in the day won the Triumph Hurdle, ex-jockey-turned-sleuth Sid Halley investigates a possible link to Lord Enstone's mysterious losing streak.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his prosperous former associate. Meanwhile, Sharon has a new client...
Author
Series
Clay Edison volume 2
Language
English
Description
It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man--earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. And his brother's fresh out of prison, bringing with him a great big basket of crazy. Then the call comes in the middle of the night. It's a bad one. A party in West Oakland. An argument with the neighbors. A crowd in the street....
18) The highwayman
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Longmire and Henry Standing Bear assist newly transferred officer Rosey Wayman, who has been receiving calls for assistance from a legendary Arapaho patrolman who died in a fiery canyon accident nearly half a century earlier.
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she's found some stability and peace. But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband's office shelf. The sports trophy...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
499 pages (large print) : illustration ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With Mrs Hudson gone from their lives and domestic chaos building, the last thing Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, need is to help an old friend with her mad and missing aunt. Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, since the loss of her brother and father in the Great War. And although her mental state seemed to be improving, she's now disappeared after an outing from Bethlem Royal Hospital....