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Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont volume 18
Language
English
Description
Given a classified assignment involving the true fate of a deceased ex-con, Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont discovers that the victim had recently attempted to turn his life around and had been murdered for the effort.
Author
Series
Puller volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
4) Dead sleep
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister.
5) Shock wave
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two groups want to stop it: local merchants and environmentalists. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second explodes at the construction site itself. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sent by the CIA to a beautiful Caribbean island where they are to track down murderous rogue agent Teddy Fay, the team of Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, and Dino Baldachetti finds their mission thwarted by corrupt local politicians and secretive American expatriates.
8) NYPD Red
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called....
Author
Publisher
Making It
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When someone frames shoe designer Maddie Springer for the death of a model while she is in Paris for Fashion Week, the amateur sleuth enlists the help of sexy cop Jack Ramirez to discover who the true murderer is.
10) Edge of evil
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fired from her high-profile broadcasting career and in the process of divorcing her adulterous husband, Alison Reynolds heads home to Sedona, Arizona, to recover, and launches an online blog to help others that exposes her to a killer.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
410 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christian "Angel" DeAngelo tries to manage Sonny, the orphaned son of a mobster whom he has been hired to protect, but when a bullet meant for Sonny hits the wrong kid, Angel must find the shooter before another person gets hurt.
Author
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her mother forces her to enter Grandma Sal's Soup-to-Nuts Cooking Challenge despite her lack of culinary skills, Sky Denison must decipher a complex recipe for murder when a cocky contestant meets her fate in a chocolate fountain.
14) The widow
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Abigail Browning, still seeking answers about her husband's death seven years earlier, follows an anonymous tip back home to Maine, where she teams up with search-and-rescue worker Owen Garrison to unravel this mystery.
15) Index to murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 259 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When two of Ruth Winthrop's paintings are stolen, artworks depicting a former lover who died mysteriously, Ruth calls in her best friend, dedicated librarian-turned-amateur sleuth Helma Zukas, to uncover the truth about both the theft and her late lover.
16) Bone box
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Series
Language
English
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On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Brighton, England, in 1811, when the wife of an aging marquis is found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent, wearing an ancient necklace with mysterious ties to Sebastian St. Cyr, Sebastian turns sleuth to investigate the woman's death.
18) Last kiss
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the senseless murder of her eighteen-year-old son, Charlie, Sheridan Rosslare has been unable to cope with her grief, until Charlie's heartbroken girlfriend enlists the aid of Sheridan's long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson, to uncover the truth.
19) The vision
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When diver Genevieve Wallace sees the ghost of a dead woman during a salvage mission, no one believes her until a body washes up on shore, submerging her in a world of the unexplainable where only her diving partner can help her solve a violent mystery.
20) Gotcha!
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Series
Language
English
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Sometimes, justice is a long time coming. That's the case with Julie Wyatt, whose story strikes close to home for the original founder of the Sisterhood, Myra Rutledge, and her best friend--and fellow sister--Annie. Julie is convinced her greedy daughter-in-law Darlene had something to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son Larry's death.