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5881) The Wrong Girl
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Jane Ryland mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Award-winning and Boston Globe bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family. Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate...
5882) Freak
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Pub. Date
p2013
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Inside a maximum-security prison cell, Abby Maddox is serving twenty years for slashing Seattle PD officer Jerry Isaac's throat during the harrowing capture of her former lover, serial killer Ethan Wolfe. To the demented fans, lunatics, and creeps on the outside, she is a celebrity. But to Jerry, now a private investigator whose scarred neck and tortured speech are daily reminders of Abby's vicious attack, she alone may be the key to solving a new...
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In the 24th installment of Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis investigate a lovers' midnight romp in a construction site gone wrong. A man and a woman have been murdered, bludgeoned to death during their intimate act; and as Delaware and Sturgis dig deeper into the case, they find themselves in the midst of high society's secretive world of deception and debauchery.
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Remy Chandler novel volume 3
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A woman whose daughter has preternatural gifts is missing, and she seeks out Remy for help.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
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In the fading town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his chaperone are hired to find a missing girl. Is the girl a runaway? Or was she kidnapped? Was she seen last at the grocery store? Or could she have stopped at the diner? Is it really any of your business? These are all the wrong questions.
5887) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
5888) Moral defense
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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Samantha Brinkman is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing leaves the teenage girl's father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life, in a case that has Samantha identifying with her young client.
5889) The turquoise lament
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Now that Linda "Pidge" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee has second thoughts. If only he can get to Pidge before he has time for any more thinking....
5890) The clincher
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Clinching is the technique used to bend a driven horseshoe nail to hold the shoe to a hoof. Rainy Dale is The Clincher, a twenty-something high school-dropout turned farrier (horseshoer) who is haunted by a secret she carries. Estranged from her California d-list actress momma and her ranch hand Texas daddy, she tracked down her childhood horse in small-town Oregon--a land full of cowboys and their horses--then stayed to build a life with her tools,...
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Pub. Date
2013
Description
A compilation of three Jack Reacher novellas.
Deep Down: In thriller master Lee Child's short story, Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier's clothing -- by matching wits with four formidable females. Tree ae clean -- but the fourth may prove fatal.
Second Son: A young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done. and, in one of his earliest challenges, he knows that his...
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Detective genius Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, are private investigators based in New York. With Wolfe's unmatchable wits and Archie's tireless legwork, no mystery is unsolvable. In this installment, Wolfe must prove the innocence of colleague Orrie Cather who is being charged with the murder of Isabel Kerr. As Archie deals with a colorful cast of characters, including Isabel's sister, brother-in-law, and benefactor, Wolfe uses mathematics...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-authors Max Epstein, David Pace, and Michael Harkins, comes an audio-first techno-thriller addition to the universe of Stephen (Legion) Leeds. Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are all quite mad.A one-man team of experts, Stephen Leeds is a genius of unparalleled mental capabilities who can learn new skills or master entire scholarly...
5894) Dick Francis' Refusal
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Series
Dick Francis novels volume 3
Pub. Date
cp2013.
Description
Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beatedn, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game. He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, is found dead under suspicious circumstances. And then a man with an Irish accent contacts Sid,...
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Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 8
Pub. Date
2016
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community. Kate's long time love interest, State Agent John Tomasetti,...
5896) It Ends With Her
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Pub. Date
2018
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FBI special agent Clarke Sinclair doesn't give up easily. She's spent years tracking serial killer Simon Cross, forced to follow his twisted clues and photographs across the country. Clarke knows that Cross selects only redheaded women and that he doesn't target another victim until Clarke discovers the previous one. He's never broken pattern until now.
5897) As husbands go
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Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of 4-year-old triplets, tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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When a fly-covered canvas bag floats to the surface of North Carolina's Mountain Island Lake, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is called to the scene. Animal remains? Or could this be related to bone fragments from a human male found nearby? To Tempe's surprise, the decomposed body indicates the person was a female young adult. The profile fits the description of a missing graduate student named Edith Blankenship. Was Blankenship murdered? If...
5900) Calico
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"There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert...The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge - and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for...