Kate Rudd
1) Nine liars
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Series
Truly Devious volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University...
2) If I live
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Series
If I run novels volume 3
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English
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Casey Cox is still on the run after being indicted for murder. The hunt that began with her bloody footprints escalates, and she's running out of places to hide. Her face is all over the news, and her disguises are no longer enough. It's only a matter of time before someone recognizes her. Dylan Roberts, the investigator who once hunted her, is now her only hope. Terrifying attempts on Dylan's life could force Casey out of hiding. The clock is ticking...
3) If I'm found
Author
Series
If I run novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Casey Cox is still on the run, fleeing prosecution for a murder she didn't commit. Dylan Roberts -- her most relentless pursuer -- is still on her trail, but his secret emails insist that he knows the truth and wants to help her. As Casey works to collect evidence about the real murderers, she stumbles on another unbearable injustice: an abused child and a suicidal man who's also been falsely accused. Casey risks her own safety to right this wrong...
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
680L
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English
Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
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Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother Ben-the person who promised he would always protect her-was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia's memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found. But guilt and grief...
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English
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In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend and roommate Quinn Collins to wonder where Esther is and whether or not she's the person Quinn thought she knew. Meanwhile, in a small Michigan harbor town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where eighteen-year-old...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1200L
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English
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A scientific thriller finds three traveling companions--itinerant artist Dylan O'Conner, his autistic younger brother Shepherd, and Jillian Jackson, a young stand-up comic--on the run, just one step ahead of deadly pursuers, as they race against time to uncover the meaning of an attack by a mysterious doctor and the injection that now appears to have vicious consequences.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daughter who left home years earlier, stands by helplessly and wonders if he has failed his child again....
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English
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Brooke is a divorced single mom, financially strapped, living with her mother and holding tight to the one thing that matters most - her two-year-old daughter, Etta. Then, in a matter of seconds, Brooke's life is shattered when she's carjacked. Helpless and terrified, all Brooke can do is watch as Etta, still strapped in her seat, disappears into the Los Angeles night. Miles away, Etta is found by Molly, a homeless teen who is all too used to darkness....
10) Lies we bury
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Two decades ago Marissa Mo escaped a basement prison, the only home she'd ever known...Marissa's moved beyond the trauma and is working under a new name as a freelance photographer. But when she accepts a job covering a string of macabre murders in Portland, it's impossible for Marissa not to remember. Everything is eerily familiar. The same underground lairs. Sad trinkets and toys left behind, identical to those Marissa had as a child. And then...
11) Her last day
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"Ten years ago, PI Jessie Cole and reporter Ben Morrison each suffered a tragedy that changed their lives -- and now these two strangers are about to share a nightmare. For Jessie, who makes her living finding missing persons, no case has consumed her more than the disappearance of her younger sister, Sophie. But left alone to raise Sophie's daughter, she realizes that solving the case has become an unhealthy obsession. For Ben, a horrific car accident...
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English
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When her foster sister is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal, a respected lawyer, drops everything to defend her, which forces her to confront a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.
13) The silent woman
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English
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Jade Westmore is content in her life as a newlywed to architect Wells Westmore, but after a dire warning from Wells' first wife Sylvie--silent since her accident three years ago--Jade is unsure of what to do and whom to trust.
14) The good liar
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English
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Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching? When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered. A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood on the street and witnessed it going down, with her husband and best friend inside. Kate, now living thousands of miles away, fled the disaster and is hoping that her past won't catch up with her....
15) Doomsday match
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[The Dresden Codex volume Book 1
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English
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Jonathan Roth and his family are invited to a luxury retreat in Cozumel, unaware that they will be used as pawns in an ancient Mayan ritual designed to bring about the apocalypse.
16) Furious
Author
Series
Faith McMann novels volume 01
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Faith McMann comes home to a nightmare: her husband is killed and her son and daughter are taken. Although the intruders leave her for dead, she survives. Crippling grief and fear for her children make life unbearable. Until her anguish turns to anger--and she trades victimhood for vengeance"--Page [4] of cover.
17) Deadly recall
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PI Jessie Cole is about to discover that there's no revenge too wicked. When you search for the missing, there's no telling what you'll find. PI Jessie Cole learned that painful truth first hand when her sister disappeared. Now a new case will test Jessie and Ben once again. Owen Shepard, the public face of one of the country's biggest health insurance companies, has become the target of a vengeful father. The man blames Shepard for his child's death...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Night Shift -- Her voice is like whiskey, smooth and potent, but it's her contradictions that fascinate Detective Boyd Fletcher - the vulnerability beneath her tough-as-nails facade. Late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke is being threatened by a sinister caller, and it's Boyd's job to protect her no matter what. But the sultry DJ gets under his skinm and the undeniable chemistry that sizzles between them makes the detective uneasy...
Night Moves:...