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1) Private
Author
Series
Private volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Kinsey Millhone trusts her life to her instincts as her investigation into the disappearance of a renowned physician takes her into a dark and dangerous world of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing.
3) 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.
Author
Series
Private volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner.
5) 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...
6) The race
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
t is 1910 and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring Josephine Frost. Frost's violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he also knows that Frost won't be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well.
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...
8) Easy prey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the murder of supermodel Alie'e Maison, Lucas Davenport finds complications in the victim's drug habits and secret sex life, as well as the suspicion of one of Davenport's own men and the discovery of a second body in the house.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident--death by drowning. Kinsey wasn't so sure. Pulled into the detritus of a dead man's life, Kinsey soon...
10) Maisie Dobbs
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways. Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War, Maisie has wisdom, experience and understanding beyond her years. Little does she realise the extent to which this strength of character is soon to...
Author
Series
Spellman files volume 1
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 21
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Sue Grafton ups the ante for private investigator Kinsey Millhone like never before in this “taut, terrifying, transfixing”* #1 New York Times bestselling mystery in the Alphabet series.
Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative...
Kinsey Millhone's elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative...
Author
Series
Spellman files volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Isabel pursues therapy while trailing her newest client's errant wife, Rae faces skyrocketing expectations in light of her high SAT score, and Henry disrupts the family with a new love interest.
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....
16) Plum lucky
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Just after Valentine's Day, Diesel returns to once again turn New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's world upside down.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hercule Poirot refuses a stranger's request to help and then within six hours is asked to find the stranger's killer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.
Author
Series
Isaac Bell adventure volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....
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