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41) A willing murder
Author
Series
Medlar mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
42) Bad monkey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida--and it's sending waves crashing through Sabrina "Bree" Beckham's love life ... When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island--as well as its connection to the mainland--twenty-five-year-old Bree Beckham isn't worried ... at first. She's already escaped one storm--her emotionally abusive ex--so a hurricane seems like it will be a piece of cake....
45) Cuba straits
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 22
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doc Ford's old friend, General Garcia, has gone into the business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He prefers high-profile collectibles, but when he obtains a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro in the early sixties, to a secret girlfriend, Garcia disappears, and then the man to whom he sold the letters. Doc Ford begins to investigate; he soon becomes convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful...
48) Iron orchid
Author
Series
Holly Barker volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his plane exploded off the coast of Maine, authorities thought they had seen the last of Teddy Fay--the ex-CIA tech wizard who kills his political targets for sport. But now they've found irrefutable evidence that he is alive and up to his old tricks. Now working for the CIA, ex-chief-of-police Holly Barker joins the elite task force tracking Fay in New York City. As he begins to pick off America's enemies one by one, Holly unexpectedly finds...
50) Powder burn
Author
Series
Black lizard volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing the death of two of his friends, caught in the cross-fire of drug traffickers, Chris Meadows becomes a decoy for the police and a target of the drug lords.
51) The yearling
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[1986], c1938
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
Author
Series
Underwater Investigation Unit volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered a van at the bottom of a murky Florida pond. Sealed inside the watery tomb are the bodies of four teenagers who disappeared thirty years ago after leaving a rock concert. To authorities, it looks like a tragic accident. To Sloan, it looks like murder. Every piece of evidence is starting to connect to a string of cold case vanishings throughout Florida. Clue by clue, Sloan navigates...
53) Contraband
Author
Series
Stone Barrington volume 50
Language
English
Description
When trouble falls from the sky-- literally-- Stone Barrington joins forces with a sharp-witted and alluring local detective to investigate a national smuggling ring. But they run into a problem: the evidence keeps disappearing. From the laid-back Key West shores to the bustling Manhattan streets, Stone sets out to connect the dots between the crimes that seem to follow him wherever he travels. He discovers shocking connections between old and new...
Author
Series
Medlar mystery volume 4
Language
English
Description
Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack...
55) The whole truth
Author
Series
Marie Lightfoot volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A true crime writer investigating the case of a child killer uncovers some unsettling facts while probing the evidence and soon finds herself in the sights of a killer who is still very much at large.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When Doc Ford investigates a tragedy that claims the life of his close friend, diver Janet Mueller, he uncovers dark rumors about the case involving everything from fraud to smuggling to murder.
57) Willow
Author
Series
DeBeers volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2002, 2017
Language
English
Description
Stumbling upon some life-altering family secrets while reading her adoptive father's journal, Willow De Beers heads for Palm Beach to search for her birth family and stumbles upon the dark truth about her origins.
Author
Series
Camino volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed...and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 14
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm. When Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, defense attorney Jack Swyteck knows that the stakes could not be higher. Jamal's gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to another...
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