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1) The silkworm
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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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...
3) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
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English
Description
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.
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5) Sleepyhead
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 1
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When a victim of a deliberately induced stroke is discovered, aware of her surroundings but unable to move or communicate, Detective Tom Thorne is horrified to learn that the attacker's intention is to leave his victims hanging between life and death.
Author
Series
Cal Hooper novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
After their daughter, Emily, dies of a gunshot wound to the head, the Golds and their next-door neighbors, the Hartes, try to determine whether young Chris Harte murdered her, or whether her death was part of a suicide pact, as Chris claims.
8) The likeness
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Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a life raft carrying the bodies of two Eastern European criminals washes up on the Swedish coastline, Inspector Kurt Wallender travels to Riga, Latvia, where he struggles against corruption and deceit and risks his own life to uncover the truth.
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 29
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
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Description
"Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, visit the town of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Macbeth does every day. Macbeth hears about Blair's plan and is prepared to insure that Cyril returns...
Author
Series
Echo Falls mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
Author
Language
English
Description
Kingdom County, Vermont, is tucked between the Green Mountains and the White Mountains not far from the Canadian border, a small town of proud people with long memories. When the new preacher, Walter Andrews, came to town, he was an outsider, a stranger. He was also a black man. It was the summer James Kinneson turned thirteen. Son of the newspaper owner and younger brother of the town's fiery defense lawyer, James witnessed the shattering events...
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 16
Language
English
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Description
Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish.
14) All fall down
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After being hospitalized for insisting that her mother was murdered, not killed in an accidental fire, Grace goes to live with her grandfather for a fresh start, but when she sees her mothers murderer again, her past comes back to haunt her.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A series of murders leaves homicide detective Alex Cross looking for clues as to the killer's motives and next victim.
16) The simple truth
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
While Sara Evans is researching a murder case, she finds evidence that links the murderer to the Supreme Court, and soon she finds herself trying to save the escaped convict so that she can uncover the conspiracy that is killing some of the most influential people in the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Ebenezer Gryce is called in to investigate when a New York philantropist, Horatio Leavenworth, is murdered at his library table and circumstances implicate his niece Mary and her sister, for Mary is set to inherit Leavenworht's fortune.
19) Mortal memory
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn architect revisits the darkest moment of his childhood Steve Farris was nine years old in 1959, the youngest child in a family that was about to be snuffed out. Around four o'clock on an ordinary November afternoon, Steve's father loaded his shotgun. With calm precision he killed his teenaged son and daughter, and then turned the weapon on his wife. For two hours he waited for his youngest son to come home from school. When Steve did not...
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, awakened to a sense of her own danger, pursues the truth about the suspicious drowning of another twelve-year-old near the Hotel Paradise, a once-fashionable resort that belongs to Emma's family.
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