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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their new...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the final words of a newly baptized congregation member who was subsequently murdered by her husband, the Reverend Stephen Drew abandons his pulpit to spend time with an author who writes best-selling books about angels.
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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Series
Language
English
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Description
In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
9) Hamlet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Jules Bright hears a knock on the door, the last person she expects to find is a detective bringing her the news she’s feared for the last three years. Amelia Quentin is being released from prison. Jules’s life now is very different from the one she knew before Amelia shattered it completely. Knowing the girl is coming back, Jules must decide what to do. Friends and family gather around, fearing for Jules’s safety. They know that justice...
11) Guilty pleasures
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last way antiques dealer Lina Townend wants to spend a summer's afternoon is helping at a church fête. However, Robin, the vicar, is an old friend, so Lina ends up selling bric-a-brac. But a harmless event turns into a crisis when someone tries to steal a tatty old snuff box. Tatty it might be, but it's valuable enough for the would-be thief to attack Griff, her dear mentor, to frame Lina for a crime, and to kill an old friend. And maybe other...
12) Ring of guilt
Author
Series
Lina Townend mystery volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antiques dealer Lina Townsend spots a dead body in a field and calls the police, only for it to promptly vanish. Then she is accused of stealing two Anglo-Saxon rings. No one seems to believe she's innocent of either murder or theft.
Author
Series
Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada's Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. Khattak is still under scrutiny for his last case, so he's surprised when INSET, Canada's national security team, calls him in on another politically sensitive issue. For months, INSET has been investigating a local terrorist cell which is planning an attack on New Year's Day. INSET had an informant, Mohsin...
14) The unquiet dead
Author
Series
Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Detective Esa Khattak is in the midst of his evening prayers when he receives a phone call asking that he and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, look into the death of a local man who has fallen off a cliff. At first Christopher Drayton's death--which looks like an accident--doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, especially not from Khattak and Rachel's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But it soon comes to light that Drayton...
15) Saw II
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jigsaw is back and this time he has locked some very unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter. They must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But this brilliant, but disturbed mastermind has left plenty of the traps in the shelter that lead to death also. Now the unlucky are in for a round of horrifying life-or-death games.
Series
Criterion collection volume 898
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets--but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls...
17) Boo
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. But soon after arriving in this hereafter reserved for dead thirteen-year-olds, Boo discovers he's a 'gommer', a kid who was murdered. What's more, his killer may also be in heaven. With help from the volatile Johnny, a classmate killed at the same school, Boo sets out to track down the mysterious gunboy who cut short both...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs...One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. David's older brother Jon biked through the forest to the convenience store for candy, and never returned. Decades later, now a grown man with kids of his own, Kushner found himself unsatisfied with his own memories and decided to revisit the episode a different way: through the eyes of a reporter. His investigation made him realize...
19) The ice queen
Author
Series
Bodenstein and Kirchhoff volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm--a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a riddle. Was the old man not Jewish after all? Who...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2012, c1987
Language
English
Description
Katia Morell and Jordan Whyte first met as children, when Katia was the daughter of the Whytes' housekeeper. As adults, they meet again when Jordan's brother dies mysteriously. A full-scale passion soars between them, and though Katia and Jordan know their love will certainly lead to heartbreak, neither can resist its intoxicating allure.
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