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1) Bad monkey
Author
Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Bosch investigates a cold case and the murder of a city councilman's son. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.
4) The naturals
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collictt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Jenn Corbin appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in an upscale suburb of Atlanta, expensive cars, a plush houseboat, and a husband--Dr. Bart Corbin, a successful dentist--who was tall, handsome, and brilliant. But gradually their life together began to crumble. There was talk of seeing a marriage counselor. Bart was distraught; Jenn seemed disenchanted. Then Jenn was found dead with a bullet in her head, a revolver beside her....
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R.F. Jackaby, take on the cold case murder of their spectral landlord, so when a new murder closely mirrors the events of ten years prior, they realize that their case isn't so cold after all.
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
When Jamie and Charlotte join the theater program at Oxford, accidents start anew, giving them no choice but to throw themselves into a cold case.
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
12) At risk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A Massachusetts district attorney who is running for governor looks for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology to fight crime, but when a shocking piece of violence intervenes, her state investigator, Win Garano, is not so sure it is a random event
13) Girl forgotten
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.
15) Truly devious
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
680L
Language
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While deciding if she should quit working for her family's private investigation firm, Izzy Spellman copes with meddling parents, an alcoholic uncle, the disappearance of her younger sister, and her own problems with men and drinking.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who--or what--could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 34
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
19) The partner
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan,...
20) Joyland
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells 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.
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