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1) The good guy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
2) Silence
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Finlay Donovan novels volume 3
[Finlay Donovan series] volume Book 3
Thorndike Press large print mystery
[Finlay Donovan series] volume Book 3
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From USA Today bestseller and Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun--the hilarious and heart-pounding next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. Dating. Diapers. And dodging bullets. Who said single moms can't have fun? Finlay Donovan has been in messes before--after all, she's an author and single mom who's a pro at getting out bloodstains for rather unexpected reasons--but none quite like this. After...
4) Last to die
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jack Swytek, a lawyer who last year was accused of murdering his ex-lover, finds himself in another sticky predicament. Seems his partner, the ex-con Theo Knight, has a brother, Tatum, who used to be a contract killer. A woman recently tried to hire Tatum to murder her--or so he's claiming, now that she's turned up dead. Tatum has been invited to the reading of her will, and he asks Jack to accompany him. There, they discover the woman has left her...
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Brixton takes on a twenty-year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite-- and right into the lap of a secret government organizations that been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades.
Author
Language
English
Description
Seven years after the death of his father, a covert agent who supposedly committed suicide to avoid prosecution, Frank Temple is confronted by the past in the person of Devin Matteson, the old friend and associate who had betrayed his father, as well as a web of family secrets, mob assassins, and his father's shadowy legacy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Offered a large sum of money to perform an assassination, Thomas Lang chooses instead to warn the intended victim, only to find himself on the hit list and up against such adversaries as rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer.
8) Fletch
Author
Series
Fletch mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy California industrialist tells apparent beach bum I.M. Fletcher that he wants to be murdered, the undercover journalist investigates the businessman's private life.
9) Shaker
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The tense, darkly funny, unputdownable debut novel from one of the most successful screenwriters of the past 20 years--the tale of a hit man mistaken for a hero whose sudden, unwanted fame makes him a target for the surprising number of people who want him dead"--
10) Bait
Author
Language
English
Description
Maddie Fitzgerald's past unwilling involvement with the mob comes back to haunt her when an attempt on her life brings her to the attention of the FBI, and into the arms of handsome agent Sam McCabe.
11) Assassin club
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hunter becomes the hunted when an elite assassin is given his final contract: to kill seven people around the world only to discover the targets are equally skilled assassins hired to kill him. His only shot to survive is to uncover the mysterious mastermind behind the deadly plot before it's too late.
13) Beckman
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Aaron Beckman is finished, done with a life lived in the shadows as a cruel gun for hire. Now, his soul cries out for healing, peace, forgiveness, and grace. In desperation, he appeals to the church and is welcomed by an ailing pastor like a long-lost son. However, his journey towards salvation is cut short when his adopted daughter is kidnapped by a deranged cult leader named Reese.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable...
16) A wanted woman
Author
Language
English
Description
Set up by her employers after a job gone wrong puts her on a hit list by a ruthless gang, a sophisticated assassin taps the assistance of an equally talented and alluring associate to outmaneuver both the gang and her employers
Author
Series
Nadia Stafford duology volume 2
Language
English
Description
Nadia Stafford isn't your typical nature lodge owner. An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, she's known only as "Dee" to her current employer: a New York crime family that pays her handsomely to bump off traitors. But when Nadia discovers that a troubled teenage employee and her baby have vanished in the Canadian woods, the memory of a past loss comes back with a vengeance and her old instincts go into overdrive.
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Series
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Lucas Swain is ordered to either kill or capture contract assassin Lily Mansfield after she goes against agency policy to avenge the murders of close friends, but Swain and Mansfield soon find themselves working as a team to find out why her friends were killed and to stop a plot that could devastate the world.
19) Exit strategy
Author
Series
Nadia Stafford duology volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nadia Stafford, a former police officer turned assassin dedicated to taking out criminals, may have bitten off more than she expected when she is hired to take out a ruthless and efficient serial murderer who is endangering the entire killer-for-hire community by bringing the Feds all too close for comfort.
20) Eddie's boy
Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den--the States--to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...
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