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1) Rogue lawyer
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.
2) End of watch
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves.
4) 11th hour
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 11
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. Then she's called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
7) The silkworm
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Mickey Haller (of "The Lincoln Lawyer" fame) inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....
10) I, Alex Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 16
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
11) Force of nature
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it's coming for his friend Joe Pickett. In 1999, Nate was in a secret special forces unit in Central Asia when a colleague did something terrible. Now the man has incentive to eliminate anyone who knows about it, and Nate can guess exactly how he'll do it when it comes to his case - by striking at Nate's friends to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target,...
12) The black box
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing...
13) The 9th judgment
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Women's Murder Club takes on two deranged killers, but Detective Lindsay Boxer begins to wonder if the mysterious case is also breaking apart her closest friendships.
During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body.
The same night, a woman and her infant...
During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body.
The same night, a woman and her infant...
14) The reckoning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
15) The racketeer
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning,...
16) The scarecrow
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Pursuing a big story in anticipation of his imminent layoff, Los Angeles reporter Jack McEvoy investigates the murder confession of a teen drug dealer and realizes that the youth may be innocent, a discovery that pits him against a killer operating belowpolice radar.
17) The Guardians
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate...
18) 12th of never
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 12
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsay's homicide department to report a murder that hasn't yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says he's ready to tell where the...
19) Joyland
Author
Series
Hard case crime volume 112
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, this is the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
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