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1) A small town
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"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
2) Black water
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A beautiful young woman is dead in the bathroom of her home. Her husband - a promising young cop named Archie Wildcraft - is shot in the head but still alive. It looks like an attempted murder/suicide, but something tells Detective Merci Rayborn that there's more to the story. When the suspect vanishes from his hospital bed, he draws Merci into a manhunt that leaves the entire department questioning her abilities and her judgment. Is Archie's flight...
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2009-1024 Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street, and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from "kid prison" to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime...
4) Blindsighted
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Heartsdale, Georgia is jolted when Sara Linton, the town's pediatrician and coroner, finds college professor Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. Once Sara starts to perform the postmortem the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear. Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, is in charge of the investigation. When a second victim is found crucified, Tolliver realizes that they're dealing with a sadistic rapist turned killer ......
5) Plugged
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor while searching for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers.
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"Under a promising morning sky, police captain Walter Alaka'i makes a tragic discovery: the body of a teenage surfer bobbing among the lava rocks of Maui's southeastern shore. It appears to be an ill-fated accident, but closer inspection reveals something far more sinister than the results of a savage wave gone wrong. Now that Alaka'i is looking at a homicide, he solicits the help of his niece, Detective Kali Māhoe. The granddaughter of one of Hawaii's...
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Fatal series volume 7
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Washington, DC, police lieutenant Sam Holland and her husband, US senator Nick Cappuano, have been looking forward to a quiet Thanksgiving with their son. But any thoughts of a restful holiday are dashed when Sam and Nick return home to a gruesome scene: Sam's seventeen-year-old niece Brooke, barely conscious and covered in blood on their front stoop. With lines between personal and professional blurring in this emotionally charged, deeply personal...
8) Overkill
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It started with a case so horrific that it sent Chicago cop Marty Hogan straight over the edge. Unable to put her disturbing memories behind her, Marty lost her job and was forced to flee to small-town Texas and the only police force that would hire her.
Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows something about making mistakes. A single dad and former military cop, he was willing to give Marty a second chance. But when her ex-partner is brutally murdered,...
Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows something about making mistakes. A single dad and former military cop, he was willing to give Marty a second chance. But when her ex-partner is brutally murdered,...
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"Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted--and feared--criminals in the world. Now the notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and is plotting her revenge. Using innocent young women as bait, she will lure her unsuspecting victims into her trap. This time, sheriff detective Kendall Stark and forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman won be able to stop her. The killing will be filmed....
11) Striking range
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Timber Creek K-9 novels volume 7
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 07
Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 7
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 07
Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 7
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"A deadly secret is buried in the Colorado high country--and murder is only the beginning ... He was suspect number one--the man who tried to kill Deputy Mattie Cobb and may have killed her father thirty years earlier. But when Mattie and cold case detective Jim Hauck reach the Colorado state prison where they will finally get to interview him, he's found dead in his cell. There's only one clue: a map leading to Timber Creek and rugged Redstone Ridge....
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'DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine' Elly Griffiths The second book in Michael Wood's darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious noise one night, the last thing he expects to find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally beaten, left for dead. The victims are Lois Craven...
13) Nowhere to hide
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When she discovers that the serial killer she is chasing is linked to her past, Detective September Rafferty wonders if her former classmate Jake Westerly, who she recently reconnected with, could be her quarry.
14) The Ursulina
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"The mythical beast goes by many names. Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. In Black Wolf County, he's called...the Ursulina. But to Deputy Rebecca Colder, the beast is no myth. A serial killer has taken on the identity of the monster--and with each body left behind, there's a chilling message written in blood: I am the Ursulina." -- Inside front jacket flap.
15) Point deception
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The body of an woman washes up near Point Deception, California -- a day after she was spotted near her broken-down car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift worries the woman's brutal rape and murder will resurrect fears from the unsolved massacre of two families 13 years before. When Rhoda investigates with journalist Guy Newberry, a shocking truth will test how far she is willing to go for justice.
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A Posadas County Sheriff's Department Dispatcher sticks a Post-It note on an incident report. What he meant to write was, "Not for news," hoping that the newspaper reporter who drops into the Sheriff's Office each morning would ignore the report. But what he unintentionally wrote was, "Note for news," and so the arrest of Quentin Torrez, nephew of Posadas Sheriff Robert Torrez, goes public. And Quentin, who has applied for a job with the NightZone...
17) Picture me dead
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Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police training-but nothing has prepared her for the shocking discovery of a body on the highway. When she links the body to Detective Jake Dilessio's case, they are forced to work together to find the killer. The body discovered has marks identical to the victims of a cult leader Jake put behind bars five years ago. Is this a copycat killing, or have Jake's deepest fears been realized? Is the wrong man behind...
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Ellie Hatcher novels volume 2
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When fresh-faced college student Chelsea Hart is found murdered in East River Park, her wavy blond hair brutally hacked off, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case--and finds herself under the watchful eye of a psychopath eager to add the prideful young female detective to his list of victims.
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Alex Morrow novels volume 2
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When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...
20) Rattle
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On still nights, when the curve of a winter moon is smudged in the flow of the River Quaggy, the dead clamor for him. And sometimes he coaxes the living to join them. To other people, his victims might be mere medical oddities. To him, they are fascinating specimens, worthy of display. Above all, he is a collector, eager for recognition even as he hides in the shadows. Detective Sergeant Etta Fitzroy is the first to recognize the connection between...
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