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The abduction of Josh Kirkwood with deer lake, Minnesota, into a tailspin. Even after the arrest of a suspect and the return of the boy, fear maintains its grip and questions linger. assignment to the Kirkwood case has landed Assistant County attorney, Ellen North, in the hot seat as she is hounded by the media, dogged by rural politics, and finds herself arguing the case with an ex-lover heading the defense team.
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Detective Inspector Jack Caffery mysteries volume 2
Jack Caffery thriller volume 2
Jack Caffery thriller volume 02
Jack Caffery thriller volume 2
Jack Caffery thriller volume 02
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It is a perfect summer day in London's up-market Brockwell Park. Yet, behind the elegant facade of one house, a man and his wife have been taken prisoner in their own home and their young son has disappeared. But the final horror of their terrifying ordeal is still to be revealed. Called in to investigate, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery tries desperately to make sense of the meager clues found at the crime scene. But the echoes of a devastating...
3) Pirate king
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Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British studio is creating a silent film version of "The Pirates of Penzance," Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates orchestrate a hostage situation.
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It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
5) Thirty girls
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2014.
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Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther. Two extraordinary women confronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable ways.
6) Caught
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"Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name for herself, bringing down sexual offenders on nationally televised sting operations. But when social worker Dan Mercer walks into her trap, Wendy gets thrown into a story more complicated than she could ever imagine. Dan is tied to the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old New Jersey girl, and the shocking consequences will have Wendy doubting her instincts about the motives of the people around her, while confronting...
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Troubleshooters volume 9
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Max Bhagat never told Gina Vitagliano he loved her, and now it might be too late. From the moment FBI negotiator Max first met Gina on a plane hijacked by terrorists, she left his orderly, workcentric world shaken and stirred. Their ensuing hot (then cold) romance finally ends when Gina becomes fed up. The last Max hears is that Gina is volunteering for a AIDS group in Kenya, so when he learns that she has been killed in a terrorist bombing in Germany,...
9) Shiver
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That night, Samantha Jones was doing what she always did: just trying to get by. Left to make her own way on the mean streets of East St. Louis, the pretty twenty-three-year-old single mother supported herself and her son as best she could by repo-ing cars. When she hooked her junker of a tow truck up to the BMW she'd been sent to haul in, the last thing she expected was to find a beaten, bloody man in the trunk--or to be catapulted into a terrifying...
10) Terrified
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Megan Keeler died years ago--or so everyone believes. In fact, she disappeared to escape from her sadistic husband, Glenn. When dismembered body parts were found near their home, Glenn was convicted of his wife's murder. And Megan, terrified for her unborn child's safety, never came forward with the truth...Since then, Megan has built a new life in Seattle for herself and her son, Josh. She's never forgotten that she's a fugitive, and Josh knows nothing...
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In this powerful K-9 crime thriller, FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and her trusted search-and-rescue Labrador, Hawk, must race against the clock before a diabolical killer strikes again...Somewhere in the Washington, D.C., area, a woman lies helpless in a box. Beneath the earth. Barely breathing. Buried alive. In Quantico, the FBI receives a coded message from the woman's abductor. He wants to play a game with them: decipher the clues, find the grave,...
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"After FBI agent Jade Powell's sister is abducted, K-9 trainer Ethan Connors is determined to help the woman who once saved his life. But an enemy from Jade's past will stop at nothing to keep his agenda hidden. With a storm brewing and a killer hunting them deep into Amish country, can Jade and Ethan survive the treacherous weather long enough to bring a criminal mastermind to justice?"-- Provided by publisher.
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"When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go."--NoveList.
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"Widowed Carina Collins can't remember her parents murder or her own childhood kidnapping. But when she and her eighteen-month-old son are attacked in their new home, they must turn to neighbor Ryder Jameson for protection. He's convinced Carina's mysterious past is colliding with the present. And when uncovered answers bring more questions, all roads point a little too close to home"--Page 4 of cover.
16) Mojave rescue
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"Kidnapped for her weapons plans, warfare engineer Drina Gallagher believes there's no hope of escape--until undercover CIA agent Cal Norwood blows his cover to save her. But can they survive a chase across the Mojave Desert?"--
17) The Taking
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The Taking (Kimberly Derting) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Waking up after a five-year absence with no memory of what happened, softball athlete Kyra Agnew is astonished to realize that she did not age while she was missing and teams up with her now-teenaged younger brother to figure out what happened.
18) Blind tiger
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"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble... and lands in more than he bargained for."--
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected...
20) Seven days
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"In seven days, Maggie's son, Seb, turns three. But she's not planning a party or buying presents or updating his baby book. She's dreading it. Because in her world, third birthdays are the days on which the unthinkable happens... she loses her child. For the last twelve years Maggie has been imprisoned in a basement. Abducted aged fifteen, she gave birth to two sons before Seb, and on their third birthdays her captor came and took them from her....
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