Michael Koryta
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
ANTHONY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY
Including NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly's story "Avalon," soon to be adapted for television by David E. Kelley.
"The very best of what crime fiction should deliver." -New York Journal of Books
The latest Mystery Writers of America story collection, featuring surprising, page-turning twists on the genre from some of the top...
Including NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly's story "Avalon," soon to be adapted for television by David E. Kelley.
"The very best of what crime fiction should deliver." -New York Journal of Books
The latest Mystery Writers of America story collection, featuring surprising, page-turning twists on the genre from some of the top...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy comes of age among a family of grifters in this powerful story from a New York Times–bestselling “master” (Stephen King).
Never knowing a real home, Markus Novak’s only constant in life is his passion for paperback westerns. The child of a family of outlaws, he moves through the West town by town with his mother and two uncles, staying in a place just long enough to run a short con and...
Never knowing a real home, Markus Novak’s only constant in life is his passion for paperback westerns. The child of a family of outlaws, he moves through the West town by town with his mother and two uncles, staying in a place just long enough to run a short con and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Israel Pike is paroled from prison, he returns to the place he's least welcome, tiny Salvation Point Island. After all, who would trust a man who killed his own father? Israel is driven to root out the evil that he's seen there, backed by an informant deal he made with the state police. Unfortunately, that deal falls short when Israel discovers seven bodies, two of them rival Senate hopefuls, in an unmoored yacht. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Lyman...
Author
Series
Markus Novak volume 2
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Rise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her, Gardland Webb, is out of prison and draws Markus to the scene he's avoided for so long: the lonely road where his wife was shot to death beneath the cypress trees and Spanish moss in a place called...
6) Last words
Author
Series
Markus Novak volume 1
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.
Author
Series
Lincoln Perry volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Lincoln Perry volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after the failure of a mafia daughter's elaborate parole program at a luxurious estate, private investigator Lincoln Perry investigates the program founder's disappearance and is alarmed to discover that an initial search was derailed by a murder.
Author
Series
Lincoln Perry volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This is the remarkable debut mystery from the award-winning author of the 2003 St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Prize for Best First Private Eye Novel.
Investigator Wayne Weston is found dead of an apparent suicide in his home in an upscale Cleveland suburb, and his wife and six-year-old daughter are missing. Weston's father insists that private investigators Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard take the case to exonerate his son
...11) The prophet
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, estranged since their sister's abduction and murder when they were teens, are forced into a reunion through a new killing in their small Midwestern town.
12) Never far away
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine. Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River, she is determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the demons of her past are relentlessly...
13) The ridge
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For years, a lighthouse at the top of a hill called Blade Ridge has lit up the surrounding woods. But when the lighthouse keeper is found dead, strange things begin happening to the people and animals in the area.
14) If she wakes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Abby Kaplan investigates a suspicious accident that left a visiting professor dead and senior Tara Beckley a prisoner of locked-in-syndrome, she becomes a target of a mysterious hit man.
15) Envy the night
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
16) How it happened
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly, the daughter of a well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals have little reason to believe her story. Not Rob Barrett, the FBI investigator and interrogator specializing in telling...
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Before being transformed into romantic heroes and soft, emotional antiheroes, vampires were figures of overwhelming terror. Now, from some of the biggest names in horror and dark fiction, comes this stellar collection of short stories that make vampires frightening once again.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper still reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save from a fire when she comes across a traumatized twelve-year-old boy with nowhere else to turn.
19) MatchUp
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collects stories written by best-selling thriller authors,11 women and 11 men partnered in male-female literary pairings, in anthology that includes contributions by such favorites as Sandra Brown, John Sandford and Eric Van Lustbader.
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...