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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
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In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those...
3) Friction
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2015
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Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
4) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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Three imprisoned ex-judges concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men while Aaron Lake, a presidential candidate with CIA connections, rises to power.
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A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
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Kovac and Liska volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore in a parking garage, two of Minneapolis's top cops, Detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, are called upon to solve the crime and keep the judge from further harm. Neither one wants...
7) Guilty minds
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Nick Heller volume 3
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2016.
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English
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Summoned to investigate potentially explosive charges of corruption levied by a gossip website against the chief justice of the Supreme Court, private intelligence operative Nick Heller is given forty-eight hours to prove that the story is baseless.
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 2
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2019.
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Veterinarian J. T. "Rush" Rushford, who lost custody of a girl he thought was his daughter, is in Branding Iron, Texas, with his mobile vet practice, just hoping to get through the season - until a Christmas miracle happens.
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2022.
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Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night that should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever. Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from...
11) Dirty blonde
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2006
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English
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Federal judge Cate Fante finds her own double life coming to light when the defendant in a high-profile lawsuit ends up dead, revelations that threaten her future on the bench as well as her life when the killer comes after her.
12) Three-day town
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Deborah Knott mystery volume 17
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that the box is missing and the doorman has been murdered.
13) Sand sharks
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Deborah Knott mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Anticipating a much-needed vacation, Judge Deborah Knott travels to Virginia to join her husband and son only to stumble on a murder scene involving one of her colleagues, a situation that is further complicated by growing suspicions that Deborah is a target.
14) The amber room
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2007
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When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.
18) The hidden gate
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Savannah secrets volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Meredith Bellefontaine has recently reopened her late husband's investigation agency with her best friend and retired juvenile court judge, Julia Foley. Despite the anxiety that comes with starting a new business, leaving the comfort of her job as president of the historical society in Savannah, and recovering from a near-fatal heart attack. Meredith truly believes that this is God's next step for her life. Julia accidentally uncovers their very first...
19) A fallen petal
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Savannah secrets volume 2
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When an acclaimed author announces his next book will be a deep dive into the predecessors of Savannah's oldest citizen, 104-yea-old Harlowe Green becomes very nervous. Harlowe fears that a long-buried family secret might not just tarnish his reputation, but it might also expose his family as criminals. Years ago--almost a century now--he went on a trip north with his parents and little brother, Lawrence. Only three of them returned home, and everyone...
20) Winter's child
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Deborah Knott mystery volume 12
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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