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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Philosopher and new mother Isabel Dalhousie is distracted from her new son and recent marriage proposal by two paintings with unusual characteristics that lead Isabel to believe they may be fake.
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil. She must solve the mystery and clear her name without the support of her beloved, Sylah. Sylah braves new lands to find a solution for the hurricane that threatens to destroy her home. But in finding answers, she must make a decision: Should she sacrifice her old life in order to raise up her sword...
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After his former lover is found murdered in his own bed, Jack Morgan, former Marine and founder of the world's most effective private investigation company, must clear his name while also solving murders at a posh hotel.
6) Deadly grace
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter night in a small Minnesota town in 1979, someone comes looking for Grace Meade. She is killed and her house is set ablaze. Incredibly, the prime suspect is her own daughter, Jillian. Rescued from the burning house, Jillian Meade is hospitalized, unable-or unwilling-to speak. After an attempt to take her own life, Jillian's doctor gives her a blank journal to encourage her to write about her mother's death. Unaware of what has happened,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Gemma Jones of New Scotland Yard is adjusting to professional and personal changes that include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector -- and a future now intimately entwined with Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. But her new responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a particularly brutal homicide in which a lovely, pregnant, unfaithful young wife of a wealthy antiques dealer has been found...
Author
Series
Mark Beamon thrillers volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her...
11) Behind her lives
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Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""That's not my sister." Overwhelmed by shock and relief, those are the only words Deven can muster when she is called to identify the body of a suicide victim. A body she was informed was her sister, Kennedy. But as she stares at the lifeless stranger, she's filled with questions: Who is this woman? Why was Deven listed as family? And most important, where is Kennedy? Her intuition tells her just one thing: this can't be a total coincidence. Desperate...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish PIs open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. Brendan Holmes: A keen, science-minded sleuth with an even keener sense of smell. Margaret Marple: A charming snoop who works best undercover. Auguste Poe: A weapons expert with a weakness for muscle cars and beautiful women. The agency's daring methodology and headline-making cases attract the attention of NYPD detective lieutenant Helene Grey. Her...
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Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
In a scenic Scottish village, no one is disliked more than painter Sandy Campbell, so when he is found dead at the foot of a cliff, with his easel standing above, no one is sorry. Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to determine the truth regarding the artist's demise.
14) Showstopper
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Since the start of the hit TV show Swift in 2013, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune. First, a star actress pulls out of the show before it begins-and by 2019, there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and two missing persons cases. The popular media around Bath, England, quickly decides it's a curse, but is it as simple as that? Is someone behind these fishy incidents? Peter Diamond, Chief Superintendent...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
"A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, “Take my baby.”
She places her child in your arms. She says your name.
Then she jumps…
In a split second, Morgan Kincaid’s life changes forever. She’s on her way home from work when a mother begs her to take her baby, then places the infant in her arms. Before Morgan can stop her, the distraught mother jumps in front of an oncoming train.
Morgan has never seen this woman before, and she...
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 25
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When Brixton takes on a twenty-year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite-- and right into the lap of a secret government organizations that been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 26
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a Washington psychiatrist is found dead in his office, Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend one of his patients who has become a suspect. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink to a highly secret CIA mind control project. A programmed assassin strikes and kills the wildly popular frontrunner in the presidential race. As a result of the assassination, the other government agencies have become aware of the rogue CIA program. They...
18) I will find you
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Language
English
Description
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl's sister, Rachel, arrives unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Utterly original and compulsively readable, a detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes. Maggie Moore-tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess-is a word genius, able to solve any linguistic puzzle. When she's talent-scouted from the top of her forensic linguistics class and asked to analyze harrowing notes left by a stalker-turned-rapist, she's all over it. And she succeeds....
20) Split second
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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