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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.
3) 7th heaven
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a family's past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The...
Author
Series
Crescent City (Sarah J. Maas) volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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"Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion--otherwise known as Crescent City--has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city--and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful...
6) Private
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He's already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 school girls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
7) The Naturals
Author
Series
The Naturals volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"--Provided by publisher.
8) The silkworm
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When his 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, assistant district attorney Andy Barber is torn between loyalty and justice as facts come to light that lead him to question how well he knows his own son.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years after her husband's murder, Laurie Moran, an award-winning TV producer and single mother, starts filming a new "cold case" series in which four women involved in the unsolved murder of a wealthy Westchester matron reunite to recreate the scene of the crime -- along with the real killer.
11) Zero day
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal...
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
Stevie Bell seemed to be on the cusp of the decades-old kidnapping and murder of Albert Ellingham's family. But a classmate's murder-- which Stevie solved-- convinced her parents to pull her out of Ellingham Academy....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another. Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor and heart-transplant recipient, is given a plum assignment--the murder trial of theatrical agent Gregg Aldrich, accused of murdering his wife. During the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is decided...
15) Sharp objects
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an...
17) Second honeymoon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all have one chilling thing in common--they're newlyweds.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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In the late summer of a long-ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden.
20) At risk
Author
Series
Win Garano novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.
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