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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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760L
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English
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Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.
2) Silent mercy
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Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to a Baptist church in Harlem, originally built as a synagogue, where the body of a young woman has been decapitated and set on fire. Was the fire meant to destroy the body or to draw attention to it? A second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's many houses of worship to find a connection that will take her into terrible danger.
3) Outrage
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When his wife discovers that his office has indicted an innocent man for murder, New York District Attorney Butch Karp faces the most challenging case of his career: to expose failing internal systems, confront the NYPD, and catch the real killer.
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2016.
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English
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"He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story--he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story. Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first, Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish's requests...
5) Cold justice
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When her friend Anne is found strangled to death, Kali vows to find the killer, who is leaving the calling card of a recently-executed serial killer on the doorsteps of his next victims.
6) Rituals
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"When Olivia Taylor-Jones found out she was not actually the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers, her life exploded. It turns out a third supernatural force has been at work all along, a dark and malevolent entity that has had its eye on Olivia since she was a baby and wants to win at any cost"--
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Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 3
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English
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When her son is kidnapped, Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery, with the help of FBI special agent Joseph Carter, must unlock a dreadful secret about her past in order to save his life.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Kelly Spence, an at-risk teen and tagger, is four stories up at 3:00 one morning when she looks down and witnesses the brutal murder of a woman in the parking lot below. Unluckily the killer spies her but Kelly escapes. Desperate to stay anonymous, she seeks help from someone on the street she trusts, but soon she finds his mutilated body and becomes even more afraid. Cal is drawn into the case by his volatile Cuban friend and landlord who is devastated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Following a nasty divorce, attorney Emily Graham buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house, in Spring Lake, New Jersey. The house was sold by Emily's ancestors in 1892 after a young girl disappeared. During renovations, the skeleton of a woman who disappeared a few years go is found. In her hand is the finger bone of another woman wearing a ring. Emily is determined to find a connection between the two deaths, but she becomes a threat to a seductive...
10) The cheater
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English
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Someone is murdering unfaithful men and dismembering their bodies, using alibi services companies that provide alibis for people having an affair to get to the victims. Can Special Agent Mary Stevens stop the Alibi Murderer, when she doesn't even know whether it's a man or a woman?
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can't turn down one last investigation. This time, it's a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things. She's the only one who can catch the killer, who's left a trail of bodies in a rural community outside of Las Vegas. But the more Jessica finds out, the less clear her case becomes. Out of options, she's forced to consult her serial killer ex-husband--to gain additional insight...
12) Night sins
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Ellen North novels volume 1
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Deer Lake book volume 01
[Deer Lake volume 1
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Deer Lake book volume 01
[Deer Lake volume 1
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English
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Features Megan O'Malley, the first woman field agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and Mitch Holt, chief of police in Deer Lake. They are brought together by the kidnaping of an eight-year-old boy, abducted after hockey practice. By the author of Lucky's Lady.
13) Blood orange
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Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise--she's just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems... Alison drinks too much. She's neglecting her family. And she's having an affair with a colleague whose taste for pushing boundaries may be more than she can handle. Alison's client doesn't deny that she stabbed her husband--she wants to plead guilty. And yet something about her story...
14) The secret hour
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Attorney John O'Rourke, his household in turmoil since the death of his wife, and his family the target of resentment over his defense of the so-called Breakwater Killer, finds his life further complicated by the arrival of Kate Harris, a woman trying to discover whether her missing sister is one of the killer's victims.
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James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny looking geeky loner, he walks into Jason Kolarich's office one day with a preemptive concern. Two women have recently been murdered, seemingly by the same killer, and Drinker thinks he will be the main suspect. One woman was his ex girlfriend and the other was a friend. He's the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either murder. Believing he's the target of a frame up, Drinker...
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Desert plains volume 3
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English
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Defense attorney Dylan Aster's unblemished trial record is threatened by an impossible case he gets sucked into. Madeline Ismera, a public defender in Oregon's Jackson County, reaches out to a friend in the DA's office of Nevada's Clark County to ask Dylan for help exactly because of his stellar reputation. The defendant she's been assigned, diagnosed schizophrenic Arlo Ward, is accused of a horrific crime in Coyote Canyon: the slaughter, partial...
17) Red mist
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out. Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn...
18) Double jeopardy
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Stone Barrington novels volume 57
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English
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"Stone Barrington is settling in for a stretch in New York when he receives news that demands immediate action. An old family matter has unexpectedly resurfaced, and Stone must decamp to the craggy shores of Maine to address the issue head-on. There, Stone finds that a dual-pronged threat is hiding in plain sight among the stately houses and exclusive coastal clubs, and the incursion isn't easily rebuffed. These enemies have friends in high places,...
19) Price of justice
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Series
A Mara Brent legal thriller volume 2
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Vicious felons are going free. Can one determined attorney stop them from slaughtering more innocents? Sharp small-town prosecutor Mara Brent has a heart as big as it is tough. Smack in the middle of a scandal surrounding her corrupt ex-boss, she works relentlessly to put things back in order. But when past gross negligence threatens to free convicted criminals, Mara fears her tight-knit community will be plagued by sadistic serial killers. Preparing...
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McMurtrie & Drake investigations volume 3
McMurtrie and Drake volume 03
McMurtrie and Drake investigations volume 3
McMurtrie and Drake volume 03
McMurtrie and Drake investigations volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
McMurtrie's old nemesis, Jack Willistone, is found dead on the banks of the Black Warrior River. Willistone had his share of enemies, but all evidence points to a forgotten, broken woman as the killer. At the urging of the suspect's desperate fourteen-year-old daughter, McMurtrie agrees to take the case. But as seasoned as McMurtrie is, even he isn't prepared for how personal and dangerous this case is going to get. With the trial drawing near and...
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