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2) Nearly found
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
High school senior and science whiz Nearly Boswell, called Leigh, is thrilled when she gets an internship in a forensic science lab, since it is a step toward college and a way out of the trailer park--but soon she finds herself the target of a serial killer, one who seems to know a lot about the residents of Sunny View Trailer Park as well as her absent father's secrets.
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Traces the events of the night in 1973 when two men kidnapped eleven-year-old Amy Burridge and her eighteen-year-old sister Becky, raped Becky, and threw both sisters over a bridge into a river near Casper, Wyoming, and discusses the trials of the men and the aftermath of the case.
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English
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At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in the courtyard of her Queens apartment building. Her neighbors hear her cries; no one calls for help. Unfolding over the course of two hours, "Good Neighbors" is the story of the woman's last night. It is also the story of her neighbors, the bystanders who kept to themselves: the anxious Vietnam draftee; the former soldier planning suicide; the...
5) Clandestine
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English
Description
Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's--a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition--and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the...
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Series
Serge Storms novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
A crime comedy on a dentist who mutilates his hands to collect $5 million in insurance. Dr. George Veale is forced into the scam by a woman who videotaped a sex session and is blackmailing him. But after Veale collects he turns the tables.
7) Black Friday
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
New York Police Detective Archer Caroll teams up with Securities and Exchange Commission agent Caitlin Dillon in a desperate attempt to stop a group of terrorists called Green Band which has blown up several buildings on Wall Street and thrown the stock market into chaos.
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English
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When Remington James returns to the small North Florida town he grew up in, he decides to resume his love for photography. Remington ventures into the deep swamp where he has already set up some cameras to discover that his camera has captured, frame-by-frame a shocking crime.
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English
Description
All the varieties of power — star, political, sexual, criminal and emotional — are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra and the Mafia.
Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA and big-city police departments, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal Sinatra's pact with the Mob in shocking detail.
With additional evidence from decades of investigations and testimony,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted; it punishes the innocent;...
12) Dying light
Author
Series
Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae's been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department. He'll do anything to prove he doesn't belong there, including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks.
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English
Description
Painting a vivid picture of the scenes both inside and outside the courtroom and re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court in 2007, this narrative accurately portrays cold-blooded—and sometimes incompetent—killers and their crimes. In 1998 Frank Calabrese Jr. offered to wear a wire to help the FBI build a case against his father, Frank Sr., and his uncle...
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Series
Hardy Boys adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"After investigating a series of pranks, Frank and Joe uncover evidence of the Red Arrow, a group that will stop at nothing to bring chaos and crime to Bayport."--
16) Numbers
Author
Lexile measure
HL 650L
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English
Description
Since her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret. When her eyes meet someone else's, a number pops into her head the date on which they will die. Knowing that nothing lasts forver, Jem avoids relationships, but when she meets a boy called Spider, and they plan a day out together, her life takes a new twist and turn.
18) Dragon on trial
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Someone or something has murdered the goose who laid the golden eggs, and the evidence points to a dragon named Scratch. But this mystery won't be that easy to solve. Zoe and Logan are back on the case in another exciting fantasy adventure.
19) Nearer home
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Series
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English
Description
Crime reporter Nola Céspedes comes across the dead body of her former journalism professor in New Orleans's Audubon Park and discovers links between the victim's death and two potentially volatile news stories.
20) Hidden riches
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
"An unexpected chance to help the school bully gets Ashley and Bryce into a tough spot. When theyre spotted snooping around a possible crime scene, the culprits will stop at nothing to keep them from getting in the way."--Back cover.
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