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1) The island
Author
Language
English
Description
After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Miles' life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, who is rebuilding her own life. Slowly, their newfound love starts to soothe the pain of the past. But when a devastating secret is revealed, they start questioning everything they ever believed in.
Author
Publisher
Assembly Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Sander Matalon loves his children -- 18-year-old Noam and 13-year-old Andi -- dearly, though the Harvard-bound Noam is unquestionably his favorite. And as Sander struggles in his career as a violinist, Noam is eager to start the next phase of his life. Then, driving home from a New Year's Eve party in his father's car Noam strikes a jogger, who dies instantly. Noam tries to keep it a secret, but Sander soon discovers what happened. Sander vows to...
5) Waking lions
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After neurosurgeon Eitan Green hits and kills an African migrant while driving on a deserted road late at night, the victim's wife tracks him down and confronts him the next day, and her price for silence shatters his safe existence.
7) Rundown
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Toronto homicide detectives Pratt and Ellis are brought in to investigate a series of hit-and-runs. Someone seems to be trying to kill random people using stolen cars. The detectives try to find any connections between the victims that might indicate something else at work. What they discover is beyond their wildest imagining.
8) Rosebush
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The morning after an epic Memorial Day party on the Jersey shore, Jane Freeman wakes up paralyzed, lying in a rosebush after a hit-and-run. Everyone believes it was an accident, but as friends come to visit in the hospital Jane's memories begin to surface, not just from the party but from deeper in her past, including the night her best friend Bonnie died.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The author of Killer Choice, a thriller "full of shocks and twists you won't see coming" (Lee Child), delivers a nail-biting novel about a hit and run, and a lie that goes horribly wrong... Her son accidentally killed a man. They cover it up. Nothing goes according to plan. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Jackson is the son of divorced parents. His life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is nothing out of the ordinary. Until the night that he accidentally kills someone...
10) River Road
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When one of her students is killed in a hit-and-run on River Road, it raises memories of Nan Lewis's own daughter, killed in a similar accident six years prior. And because Nan has damage to her car after hitting a deer while driving home from a faculty holiday party that same night, she becomes a suspect. In the days following the accident, Nan finds herself shunned by the community--and begins to suspect that the two accidents are connected.
11) Close to home
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 5
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Tracey Crosswhite, discovers the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base. He's cleared, however, after a piece of evidence goes missing and Crosswhite must fight for justice.
Publisher
WGBH Boston
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
"Eugenie Martin, long-estranged from her son Gideon, a brilliant violinist, falls victim to foul play in a particularly grisly manner. On the same evening far across London, Gideon suffers a paralyzing case of stage fright. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Barbara Havers, are dispatched by DSI Webberley himself to solve the crime"--Container.
13) Hideout
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The new book in Kathleen George's stunning Pittsburgh-set police procedural series begins when a young mother dies in a hit-and-run accident caused by two young brothers. Desperate and afraid, Jack and Ryan Rutter flee to Sugar Lake, the summer community where they vacationed as children. As Detectives Colleen Greer and Richard Christie search for the brothers, Jack and Ryan create a terrifying hostage situation.
16) A tangled thread
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Three widely separated households -- one in Scotland, one in the north of England and one in the south -- have known the pain of losing a loved one; losses which, over the years, have shaped the characters of those left behind. Gradually, however, they each come to realize that those deaths might not have been as they seemed, adding doubt and uncertainty to their grief. It take the death of a stranger in suspicious circumstances to untangle threads...
18) Guilt: season 2
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In the cellar of an Edinburgh house, two gunshots ring out. Across town, disgraced lawyer Max McCall is released from prison. For the Leith area of Edinburgh, a bright new future is being promised. These events will entwine characters old and new, as they battle the consequences of their actions amidst shocking new developments.
19) Your Honor
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a respected New Orleans judge learns that his son is involved in a hit-and-run accident and the victim is the son of the local mafia boss, his life descends into a series of lies with tragic consequences.
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