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Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Noah Walker isn't superstitious. But there's one beach house in the Hamptons that has a troubling history of violence and mystery: when Noah was a kid, No. 7 South Ocean burned down in a devastating fire, killing the couple trapped inside. Rebuilt after the fire, the gorgeous, ocean-front property is still known by locals as The Murder House. Now, sixteen years later, a powerful Hollywood player and his mistress are found dead in The Murder House...
3) Touch & go
Author
Series
Tessa Leoni volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you'd find in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family...
5) Gone to dust
Author
Series
Nils Shapiro volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Investigating a murder, private detective Nils Shapiro finds the job complicated by the killer's strategic approaches to confounding all possible DNA evidence. Digging into the victim's cell phone records, Shapiro uncovers the potentially shattering identity of a mysterious woman, but the FBI demands he stop asking questions. Is it a case of domestic violence, or something with far-reaching implications?
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 2
Language
English
Description
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.Us Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing--and they are working coast to coast
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers volume 2
Language
English
Description
It is a humid summer night in Minnesota, when Virgil Flowers gets a phone call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found in Stillwater with two shots to the head. The victim has a lemon in its mouth-- exactly like the body they found last week. The more Flowers works the case, the more convinced he becomes that a list is being kept--one that could have a lot of names on it.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and the killer,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lillian Dyson's body had been found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden. Now, Chief Inspector Gamache, head of homicide at the Surete du Quebec, is assigned the case. But, as he interviews possible suspects at the flower show, Gamache and his team can't be sure what they're being told is the truth.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
The National Book Award winning author of Blonde demonstrates her mastery of contemporary gothic horror in these 10 chilling short stories.
The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—can take us to forbidden places, as Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates with fearsome clarity in this short story collection. In "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering
...11) Stone cold
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Investigating allegations about a hit man who lives a life of wealth and secrecy on a remote Wyoming ranch, troubleshooter Joe Pickett discovers two men at the ranch including a ruthless killer and a disturbing person from his past.
12) Family patterns
Author
Series
Patchwork mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sarah Hart finds herself wrapped in a hundred-year-old mystery involving her grandfather, Noah Drayton, and an antique quilt with a hidden message which is the only clue to the disappearance of Noah's wife, Molly.
13) The kept woman
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 8
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. --Publisher
14) Red knife
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father Buck Reinhardt vows revenge against the Red Boyz, an Ojibwe gang accused of supplying her with drugs. When the leader of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered, it is up to Cork O'Connor, a man of mixed heritage, to uncover the truth and prevent further white against red violence in Tamarack County.
16) The absent one
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Carl Morck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.
17) A gambling man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who's hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible, plus...
19) The apple thief
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As they attempt to fill their baskets, Scooby, Shaggy, and the gang look for clues to why their apples are disappearing.
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan. But when a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure buried on Pirate Island over three hundred years ago, the locals are torn between protecting the island and welcoming the publicity.
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