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"Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to past accidents but as markers for fatalities yet to come ... and someone, armed with information gleaned from careless and all-too-personal blog postings, intends to carry out those killings. Kathryn Dance and her C.B.I. team know when the attacks will take place, but who will be the victims? Her body language expertise leads her to a recent fatal car...
2) Silence
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Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear, but now her ex-boyfriend is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.
3) Alias Grace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 28
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Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Now serving a life sentence, she claims to have no memory of the murders. As Dr. Jordan tries to help her remember, he hears of the turbulent relationships in the Kinnear household and the alarming behavior of a fellow servant.
4) Thunderhead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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870L
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Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
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After the deaths of her parents 17 years before, Irene Stenson left Dunsley. Now she's back and determined to discover the truth about what happened that night. Armed with a shocking new lead and her experience as an investigative reporter, Irene dives into the mystery and finds herself in trouble. Luckily, ex-Marine-turned-innkeeper Luke Danner is there to help. His quick-thinking response in the face of danger makes him the perfect ally and she'll...
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Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected--and first female, state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard county doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial,...
7) Shadows
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They call it the Academy. A secluded cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted-or cursed with extraordinary minds.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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680L
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Journalist Sharon Martin and her financee, attorney Steve Peterson, stand on opposite sides of the capital punishment debate. Sharon opposes the death sense, while Steve believes that murderers should be executed. But one night, when Steve's young son and Sharon are kidnapped by a madman, Sharon's beliefs are put to the ultimate test. She must stop their captor, even kill him if necessary, or she and the boy will surely die.
9) Magic steps
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Circle opens volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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760L
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When drawn into the investigation of murders perpetrated on a powerful family in Summersea, Sandy and her student Pasco undertake the dangerous mission of entrapping the invisible killers.
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"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
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"Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
12) The ranger
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Now an Army Ranger, Quinn Colson returns to a place overrun by corruption, and finds his uncle, the county sheriff, dead, a suicide, he's told, but others whisper murder. In the days that follow, it will be up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family, his friends, his town, and not least about himself. And once the truth is discovered, there is no turning back.
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Haley Randolph mysteries volume 4
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When professional fashionista Haley Randolph is cursed by an irate customer and then experiences a run of bad luck, including the discovery of a dead former classmate in the menswear department, she races against time to catch the real killer.
14) Iron house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
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At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill, time for two young orphans to learn that life isn't won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed, there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him. For two decades, Michael has...
15) Devil house
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2022.
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"Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him when he was a child. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success--and a movie adaptation--to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic...
16) Dark places
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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940L
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For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
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Tim Madden awakens with a hangover and a red tattoo bearing a name from the past. What he soon learns is that the front passenger seat of his Porsche is soaked with blood and that in his marijuana stash in a nearby woods rests a blonde head, severed at the throat. He has no idea what happened and tries to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening.
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"Kit Kenyon is a first-rate hostage negotiator. Noah Lambert is a good detective with excellent instincts. These new partners have hardly had time to get used to each other when they are thrown into a grisly murder case. As evidence mounts and more victims are found, Kit and Noah realize they are on the hunt for a serial killer. The problem is, he may be hunting one of them too." -- Amazon.com.
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