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41) The money shot
Author
Series
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...
42) The chain
Author
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.
43) Wild horses
Author
Series
Montana Hamiltons volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One fateful mistake isn't the only secret Livie Hamilton is keeping from her fiancé, Cooper Barnett. Victimized during a treacherous blizzard by a man she thought she could trust, she's pregnant...but unsure who the father is. With an unknown blackmailer threatening to expose her, she must confess to Cooper and trust he'll still protect her. But when the truth falls into place, she may lose the only man she's ever loved--or worse. --Provided by publisher....
44) One house over
Author
Series
Neighbors volume 1
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...
Author
Series
Greycourt volume 1
Publisher
Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Freya de Moray is many things: a member of the secret order of Wise Women, the daughter of disgraced nobility, and a chaperone living under an assumed name. What she is not is forgiving. So when the Duke of Harlowe, the man who destroyed her brother and led to the downfall of her family, appears at the country house party she's attending, she does what any Wise Woman would do: she starts planning her revenge. Christopher Renshaw, the Duke of Harlowe,...
46) Blood for wine
Author
Series
Cal Claxton mystery volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Cal's neighbor, Jim Kavanaugh, the owner and gifted vintner of an up-and-coming winery, is accused of murdering his wife, his freedom--and the grape harvest--is suddenly in jeopardy along with his reputation, and his business begins to slide. No gentleman farmer, this puts the rugged winemaker's property, his only financial asset, in play. When a blackmail plot is hatched against the owner of adjacent land, it begins to look like a brutal game...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Seventh graders Owen, Gemma, Ally, and Todd, who have nothing in common and barely know each other, must work together and follow the instructions of an anonymous blackmailer. None of them want to go along with the blackmailer's instructions, but each of them has a secret they must protect at all costs"--
49) Desert places
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Novelist Andrew Thomas finds his peaceful life transformed into a nightmare by a mysterious killer who has framed him for the murder of a young woman whose body is buried on his property, covered in Andrew's blood.
50) The quiet game
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.
Author
Series
Oliver Swithin mystery volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"If a blackmail letter drives a man to suicide, is the sender guilty of murder? "Yes," says Oliver Swithin, author of bestselling Finsbury the Ferret children's stories and amateur sleuth, who is on holiday in an ancient village. A midnight streak with his naked girlfriend--Scotland Yard's Effie Strongitham--abruptly ends in the discovery of a corpse. Retired radiobroadcaster Dennis Breedlove has hanged himself from the old gibbet. Evidence suggests...
52) Renting silence
Author
Series
Roaring twenties mystery volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When Jessie is asked by her idol, the famous actress Mary Pickford, to do some private investigating for her, she reluctantly accepts. With a police investigation considered unnecessary, it's left to Jessie to hone her amateur detective skills and prove a woman's innocence before she hangs for murder.
Author
Series
Nevermoor volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Morrigan Crow is now a proud scholar in the elite Wundrous Society, but must prove that she belongs in the Society, while battling a new evil"--
54) Anything goes
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love - proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise, and some good old-fashioned blackmail.
Author
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?
56) Surviving ice
Author
Series
(Kathleen A.)Burying water volume 4
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ivy Lee, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might have finally found it working in her uncle's tattoo shop in San Francisco. But all that changes when a robbery turns deadly, compelling her to pack up her things yet again. Ivy has one foot out of San Francisco when a chance encounter with a stranger stalls her departure.
58) Paperback Jack
Author
Publisher
A Forge Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels. Although scorned by the critics, the tawdry drugstore novels sell like hotcakes - or so Jacob is assured. As "Jack Holly," Jacob finds success as the author of crime novels. He prides himself on the authenticity of his work, which...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Each Halloween Sam, Harran, Elisha, Laureen, and Dom hold a funeral for their secrets in an abandoned hut, but when their ritual is disrupted and they start receiving threatening messages, the friends must uncover their blackmailer before all their secrets are told and their lives ruined.
60) Dragon
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 10
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Adventurer Dirk Pitt matches wits with a group of Japanese nationalist extremists out to establish a new empire as he races against time to recover an atomic bomb lost in the Pacific aboard a B-29 during World War II.
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