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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the office of a plastic surgeon, lawyer Kerry McGrath is shocked to see two patients resembling a woman who was murdered. McGrath is familiar with the woman, having prosecuted the murderer who is now on death row. She reopens the case and gets a shock. By the author of Remember Me.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"With San Francisco under siege and everyone a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other" --
"With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club as they gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday....
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Investigative reporter Fran Simmons puts her own life in danger when she sets out to discover who really killed Dr. Gary Lasch, a murder for which his wife, Molly, has spent years in jail, even though she has no memory of the night of his death.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
On a quiet morning in St. Mary Mead, a maid wakes Colonel Bantry and his wife to inform them that a young woman is dead in their library. The victim is dressed in a tawdry dress, with dyed hair and heavy make-up. Mrs. Bantry knows that as long as the murder remains unsolved her husband will be the target of suspicion and gossip, so she asks Miss Marple for help. The victim is 18-year-old Ruby Keene, a dancer at the Majestic Hotel, whose body is identified...
8) Thunderhead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
9) Five survive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect girlfriend - a secret crush - a classmate - and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure...
10) Alias Grace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
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.
11) 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.
12) The 9th judgment
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds...
13) The lying game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
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: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
"Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one...as one by one...they begin to die. Who among them is the killer and will any of them survive?" --Cover, p. 4.
16) Wanted
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Former best friends Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily, who lost their best friend and leader, Alison, years ago when she disappeared, find themselves in grave danger when they pursue the truth about Alison.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own--between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man.
19) Mr. Mercedes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will, indeed,...
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