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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Gypsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: 'There's no luck for them as meddles with Gypsy's...
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In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of...
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Margot has just returned home to England from New York and finds her family in disarray. Her cousin Chloe is in Holloway Prison on trial for murdering her twin sister, Claudia,their mother has retreated into the world of her romance novels, and Claudia's fourteen-year-old daughter has regressed to
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"After her parents' deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business...Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in eccentric Aunt Midge and her Afghan hound, Avery's life is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings, and rare finds. But their world is rocked when Avery learns that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to her parents' demise"--
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 11
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The unspeakably wealthy (and generally unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest list with people who loathe one another. When a blizzard imprisons them all in Royal's country house, murder ensues, and there are nearly as many suspects as there are potential victims. Eventually, Inspector Alleyn makes his way through the snow to put things right, in this classic whodunit by the Mystery Writers...
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Perry Mason mysteries volume 16
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The bait is half of a $10,000 bill, delivered to Perry Mason by a man who promises the second half of the note should his companion, a silent masked woman, ever require the lawyer's services. When a dead body is discovered soon after, Mason feels the hook--but how can one prove the innocence of a person whose identity is unknown?
10) Magpie murders
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Magpie murders volume 1
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A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"--
After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A seance in a snowbound Dartmoor house predicts a grisly murder ... In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan ... dead ... murder.'Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking...
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2018.
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Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931. Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933 that has been too long neglected - until now. It is a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer. Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay at his lonely house, Kings Poplars. None of Gray's six surviving children is fond of him; several have...
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On the morning of the vernal equinox in 1899, Sherlock Holmes is roused from his bed by an urgent summons from Inspector Lestrade. A brutal murder has taken place at Stonehenge. Upon arriving at the famed site, Holmes finds the body of a young woman. On her forehead is a druidic symbol. On her side, a message written in an undecipherable language. Both are drawn in blood. But that is not all. The girl was also eviscerated, and her organs placed around...
14) Dead giveaway
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Ellen Wingate thinks she's hit the jackpot when she learns the millions she's inherited comes with a super-exclusive condo in the mountains outside of Las Vegas. But leaving Minnesota for paradise turns out to be the ultimate nightmare. Trapped with her neighbors in a freakish winter avalanche, a chilling discovery at the bottom of an indoor pool signals a frightening turn of events... A ruthless killer has infiltrated the Deer Creek Condos. With...
15) Maiden murders
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A sunny Friday morning flirts with promises for the weekend, but one young bride-to-be doesn't live to see it. Detective Mark Forbes and his partner, Jed McCracken, are called to the scene of her murder at an Indianapolis retail store.
16) A cryptic clue
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A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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840L
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The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. Bagdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. But the word is out, and an organization...
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"Inspector Charlesworth investigates a strange murder in a dress shop. The sales room at Christophe et Cie is staffed by five young women. Each is beautiful in her own way--and each could be a murderer. One morning, two of the women purchase some oxalic acid to clean a stain off a Panama hat. No one knows how the poison gets into Miss Doon's system, but it doesn't take long to kill her. When Inspector Charlesworth steps into the little shop, he finds...
20) No wake zone
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Iowa's northern lakes region promises a nice family vaction for former military intelligence officer Marley Clark - until murder rocks the boat. Literally, since the first tragedy occurs during a wedding celebration aboard a tour boat captained by Marley's cousin. One minute Marley is serving appetizers, the next she's jumping overboard trying to rescue the groom who, apparently, was dead before he hit the water.
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