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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He's 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.
2) Slow horses
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Slough House volume 1
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English
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Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.
3) The vanished
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2016.
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English
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The seemingly accidental death of a postman turns more murky once Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad discovers life-size portraits of a mystery girl in the dead man's attic, and soon Sorensen, wondering if the girl is still alive, must delve into the past to answer the mysteries of the present.
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...
5) Poppet
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When a dangerous mental patient named Isaac, who is linked to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients, is released in error, Detective Jack Caffery must track him down before he kills again.
6) Dead cert
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English
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Story of murder and suspense, with English steeplechasing for its background.
7) The ruin
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English
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It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind... When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget, until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she...
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Cormoran Strike novels volume 3
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
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When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not...
10) The twenty-three
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"It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe. Hundreds of people are going to the hospital with similar flu-like symptoms--and dozens have died. Investigators quickly zero in on the water supply. But the question for many, including private investigator Cal Weaver, remains: Who would benefit from a mass poisoning of this town? Meanwhile,...
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Dave Gurney novels volume 5
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English
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"The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had the same dream--a terrifying nightmare involving a bloody dagger with a carved wolf's head on the handle. All four are subsequently found with their wrists cut--apparent suicides--and the weapon used in each case was a wolf's head dagger. Police zero in quickly...
12) The pawn
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English
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FBI agent Patrick Bowers, called to Asheville, North Carolina to investigate a serial killer who targets young women and leaves a chess piece behind, suspects that the murderer has ties to the current state governor.
13) Behind the Iron
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English
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"Hank Fallon knows what its like to rot behind bars. To wallow in the filth of a rat-infested cell. To smell the pent-up rage of cutthroat killers and thieves. Fallon earned his freedom the hard way. He saved the lives of four guards, got released early, and became a detective. Then he went undercover, infiltrated a prison gang plotting to bust outand barely made it out alive. Now theyre sending him back. Behind the iron. Straight to hell. This time,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
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English
Description
"Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's "private collection." Indeed, what begins as an absorbing evening of bridge is to turn into a more dangerous game altogether."--Back cover
15) Real tigers
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Slough House volume 3
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English
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"Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they've messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The 'Slow Horses,' as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action. When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations...
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"Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is a stretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place."--from NoveList.
17) Victim six
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"A bloody thriller with a nonstop, page-turning pace" from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water's Edge (The Oregonian).
"Wickedly clever! Genuinely twisted." —Lisa Gardner
"Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." —Lee Child
The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common—except...
"Wickedly clever! Genuinely twisted." —Lisa Gardner
"Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat." —Lee Child
The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common—except...
18) Darkness first
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Detectives Maggie Savage and Michael McCable investigate the murder of a young woman in a sleepy Maine seaport.
19) The black echo
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For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal ... because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once...
20) Ransom
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One night four seemingly unconnected lives intersect: Peter Morgan, released after four long years in prison and vowing to redeem himself in his daughter's eyes; Carl Waters, a convicted murderer set free; Ted Lee, a San Francisco police detective who has been living for his job and falling out of love with his wife; and Fernanda Barnes, a mother of three children, left with debt she cannot repay after the death of her brilliant husband. On the night...
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