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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...
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Holland Taylor volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Five prominent attorneys in Minneapolis have had their computer systems hacked and very sensitive case files stolen. Those attorneys are then contacted by an association of local whistleblowers known as NIMN and are quietly alerted that they have received those documents from an anonymous source. If those files are released, then not only will those lawyers be ruined, but it might even destroy the integrity of the entire Minnesota legal system. This...
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English
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Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it, teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when...
5) The K Team
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Series
K Team volume 1
Language
English
Description
Laurie Carpenter, a former cop missing the action, reinvents herself as a PI, along with retired K-9 cop Corey Douglas and a retired K-9, a German shepherd named Simon Garfunkel. Marcus Clark, the mysteriously inarticulate muscle man from the earlier series, rounds out the group. Their first client is a federal judge surprised when a whopping $390,000 turns up on his bank statement. Then comes a photo of His Honor smooching a hooker. He claims a frame-up,...
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In death volume 45
Language
English
Description
No one is going to miss Larinda Mars. A ruthless gossip queen with a lucrative sideline in blackmail, there's no lack of suspects when she's murdered in a fashionable New York bar. With so many people wanting her dead, it's going to be a tough case to crack. Lieutenant Eve Dallas may not like this particular victim, but it's her duty to bring the killer to justice. As she digs deeper into Larinda's mysterious past, it becomes clear the reporter had...
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Teddy Fay volume 2
Language
English
Description
Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise - that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they've got. What they need is prestige, the cache of a respected studio to lend...
8) The chain
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Language
English
Description
Your phone rings. You child has been kidnapped. And to free her, you must abduct someone else's child. Your child will be released when your victim's parents kidnap another child. Rachel will be part of the chain... or her daughter Kylie will be killed. But the masterminds may have made a mistake this time. Rachel may be the one to finally break the chain.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Single mother Roz has reached breaking-point... Increasingly desperate, Roz doesn't know where to turn. Then the perfect opportunity presents itself. Roz meets Scott Elias--wealthy, powerful, and very married. He tracks her down and makes Roz an offer to spend the night with him--for money... But as the situation spirals out of her control, Roz is forced to do things she never thought herself capable of. Can she ever set things right again?
10) The little sleep
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Mark Genevich is a South Boston private detective who happens to have a severe form of narcolepsy, which includes hypnagogic hallucinations, like waking dreams. Unsurprisingly, his practice is not exactly booming. Then one day the daughter of an ambitious district attorney and a contestant on the reality talent show American Star named Jennifer Times comes to him for help-or does she? A man has stolen her fingers, she claims, and she'd like Genevich...
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Series
Schuyler sisters volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
One half of a political power couple struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph.
12) Rise
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, but their pasts continue to haunt them as their blackmailer threatens everyone and everything they hold dear"--
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Series
Shirley and Jamila volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who is using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering.
14) Inside out
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Series
Ben Treven volume 2
Language
English
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After a fatal bar fight, black ops agent Ben Treven finds himself serving an indefinite sentence in a Manila prison. There, Ben receives a visit from Colonel Scott Horton, who secures his release in exchange for a favor: he must track down and eliminate Daniel Larison, a former war buddy who is blackmailing the government with stolen CIA torture tapes. Getting to Daniel won't be easy, as a slew of mercenaries and a hit squad are also trying to get...
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