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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Jenny, a divorced mother of two girls, meets Erich Krueger, a painter of lyrical peaceful country scenes. Erich marries Jenny and they move to his comfortable home in Minnesota. Soon Jenny's happiness is shattered by a series of bizarre and terrifying incidents that threaten first her marriage, then her children, then her life -- until Jenny's only hope lies in unraveling the truth about the past, hidden in the great house which has become her prison....
2) Remember me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A tale of the occult. In her mansion on Cape Cod, Menley Nichols is grieving the death of Bobby, her two-year-old-son killed at a railroad crossing. For company she has her infant daughter, Hannah. Suddenly Menley hears Bobby calling to her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Kay Lansing marries Peter Carrington, who has a shadow of suspicion hanging over him regarding the death of a neighbor's daughter two decades earlier and the drowning of his first wife four years before; Kay begins to doubt her husband's innocence and uncovers memories that may cost her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Meghan Collins, a television news reporter, is covering a story in the emergency room of a large metropolitan hospital when a young woman is rushed in, victim of a stabbing. A chain of discovery begins that exposes the secret lives of the people closest to her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the disappearance of Ethel Lambston. Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposés, is one of the best customers at Neeve's exclusive Madison Avenue boutique. But Ethel's ex-husband, her parasitical nephew, and the fashion moguls skewered in her latest article all have reason to be glad she's no longer around. When Ethel Lambston is found with her throat cut, Neeve's memories...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a quarrel over her decision to follow in her grandfather's footsteps and run for Congress, Nell MacDermott's husband dies in a boat explosion, and Nell, who has long possessed psychic gifts, must find out who killed him before she becomes the next victim.
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Language
English
Description
From Clark's first-ever published story (1956's "Stowaway"), to classic tales featuring Alvirah and Willy, My Gal Sunday and many more, Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories gives readers the chance to revisit the short story highlights from the "Queen of Suspense." The jewel of this collection is the novella showcasing the dazzling and dangerous world of high fashion in 1970s New York City: Death Wears a Beauty Mask, which Mary began in 1974...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Regina Clausen was forty-three, successful in her career but insecure and unfulfilled in her personal life. Travelling alone on the luxury liner Gabrielle, she disembarked in Hong Kong saying she would rejoin the ship when it docked in Japan. She was never seen again. . . Five years later, radio presenter Susan Chandler does a series about vanishing women on her radio talk show. When a caller, who refuses to identify herself, tells of meeting a man...
Author
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: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Steve Frawley return from an evening out to discover their three-year-old twins have been kidnapped and an eight-million dollar ransom demanded, but even though Frawley's employer pays the money, only Kelly is returned, and Kathy is believed to have been killed until Kelly insists she is in telepathic communication with her sister who is alive but in grave danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her english professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scene of the homicide, her fingerprints are everywhere -- on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the truth about how Leila died. Dashing multimillionaire Ted Winters stands accused of her murder, but Elizabeth has doubts.
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Language
English
Description
18-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. She threw a party the night before, while her parents were away; her house was full of people. But no one saw anything. The police immediately suspect her boyfriend, with whom she had a bitter argument at the party. But other people had a grudge against Kerry, too, including her 20-year-old neighbour. Everyone knows he wanted to come to the party. Everyone knows how...
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Language
English
Description
Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at the Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New York City, Amanda's desperate mother begs Laurie and her Under Suspicion television team to investigate Amanda's disappearance. Soon she and the team are re-creating the night of the disappearance at the Florida resort...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse...
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.
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Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 12
Regan Reilly mystery volume 12
Alvirah and Willy volume 06
Alvirah and Willy volume 09
Regan Reilly mystery volume 12
Alvirah and Willy volume 06
Alvirah and Willy volume 09
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Alvirah Meehan, lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and private investigator Regan Reilly are guests, along with their spouses, on the "Santa Cruise." The cruise is a gift from Commodore Randolph Weed to a select group that "has made the world a better place." His largesse is prompted by the desire to create a buzz about his new cruise ship, theRoyal Mermaid, as she sets out on her maiden voyage.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when a career criminal suddenly claims Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill her." - from back cover.
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