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Kinsey Millhone volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Sue Grafton ups the ante for private investigator Kinsey Millhone like never before in this “taut, terrifying, transfixing”* #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series.
Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative...
Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Sue Grafton delivers an intensely gripping mystery based on an actual unsolved murder in this #1 New York Times bestseller featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands...
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands...
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English
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When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool.The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't resist—especially since she's just a rookie at a third-rate gossip rag....
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English
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Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to California to start a new life. With almost no money, a will of iron, and hard work, he eventually built the biggest ranch in California. But when he dies suddenly at the age of sixty-four, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters--each of them finding it impossible to believe that this larger-than-life figure is gone from their lives. JT's...
5) X
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 24
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A remorseless serial killer cunning enough to leave no trace of his crimes. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim.
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Kinsey Millhone volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Kinsey Millhone trusts her life to her instincts as her investigation into the disappearance of a renowned physician takes her into a dark and dangerous world of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
R is for Ricochet is another thrilling installment in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series.
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year...
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Paige Lassiter, scared and covered with bruises, comes into his bar with her three-year-old son, Marine John "Preacher" Middleton, immediately drawn to this courageous woman, offers her a safe haven in his arms.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 21
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fired by the insurance agency for whom she investigates, Kinsey is forced to take on a last-minute murder investigation in which the ex-husband of a murdered artist claims that David Barney, her current husband, is guilty as sin. Barney gets to Kinsey and insists he's innocent. But if he is, who's guilty? In trying to learn who's been getting away with murder, Kinsey may be courting her own.
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Series
Fool's Gold volume 9.5
Language
English
Description
When an injury forces her to return home to Fool's Gold and into the fold of her estranged family, dancer Evie Stryker, who doesn't believe in Christmas miracles, agrees to stage the winter festival and then plans to leave town, but her brother's best friend has other plans for her.
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 18
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Three female schoolteachers go missing in San Francisco, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case-which quickly escalates from missing person to murder. Under pressure at work, Lindsay needs support at home. But her husband Joe is drawn into an encounter with a woman who's seen a ghost--a notorious war criminal from her Eastern European home country, walking the streets of San Francisco. As Lindsay digs deeper, with help from intrepid journalist...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 25
Language
English
Description
Y begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a 14-year-old classmate - and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing, and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence, and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now it's 1989, and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released...
15) Ashley Bell
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her that she's dying. Two days later, she's impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a Southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident--death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. Pulled into the detritus of a dead man's life, Kinsey soon...
17) Jupiter's bones
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus confront their most shocking case when they investigate the murder of former astrophysicist-turned-guru Father Jupiter, leader of a notorious cult, the order of the Rings of God.
18) On the grind
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Forced to resign from the LAPD after being accused of the same misconduct for which his wife has left him, Lieutenant Shane Scully takes a job in a small California precinct, where he is unexpectedly challenged by local corruption and an overzealous FBI agent.
20) Swimsuit body
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Series
Cypress Bay mystery volume 2
Publisher
Open Road
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
With a Hollywood movie about to start filming in the California seaside town of Cypress Bay, Tish Ballard, owner of Rest Easy Property Management, welcomes her first celebrity tenant. Delilah Ward isn't your typical beautiful, spoiled actress; she's America's sweetheart. Even Tish is charmed by the young star, which makes her gruesome discovery of Delilah's bloodied corpse all the more gut-wrenching. When someone near and dear to Tish is named a person...
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