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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence....
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"Lucas Davenport returns, in one of the most startling Prey novels yet from the number-one-bestselling author. In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a metal pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items stolen. It is clearly the random work of someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely, Davenport begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner.
4) The partner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
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They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Alex Cross is back-and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancée. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane and...
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 02
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 2
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 02
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In this thoroughly entertaining book, the best-selling, critically acclaimed author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency continues the story of Mma "Precious" Ramotswe, the clever proprietor of the only detective agency in all of Botswana. Now engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe must contend with the hostility of her fianci's unscrupulous maid, who quickly begins plotting the disintegration of the arrangement. Then an American woman asks...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
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English
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"Who killed whom?" this question is posed of mystery writer Aridane Oliver. But this time the whodunit isn't one of her fictional novels, but a true crime from her own past. An apparent case of double suicide that claimed the lives of two friends twelve years earlier returns to haunt her and she calls on her old friend Poirot for help. If memory serves Poirot, murder - like history - has an unpleasant tendency to repeat itself...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
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"Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met."--from...
10) New York dead
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Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out. He is suddenly on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman....
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"Not even Lake Eden's nosiest residents suspected Hannah Swensen would go from idealistic newlywed to betrayed wife in a matter of weeks. But as a deadly mystery unfolds in town, the proof is in the pudding. When The Cookie Jar becomes the setting of a star-studded TV special about movies filmed in Minnesota, Hannah hopes to shine the spotlight on her bakery--not the unsavory scandal swirling around her personal life. But that's practically impossible...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Botswanan detective Precious Ramotswe and her assistant open an adjunct business--a men's typing school--which helps Mma Makutsi find a man and also helps financially when some arrogant investigative competition arrives in town; meanwhile, Precious's adopted son hits puberty at full speed.
13) Night prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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A serial killer is watching Sara Jensen from a building across the street and spending time in her bed when she is not home. To catch him, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport has to provoke him and Sara is asked to be the decoy. By the author of Winter Prey.
14) Plum lovin'
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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New Jersey bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum runs into blond heartthrob Diesel again while hunting for relationship expert Annie Hart, who is wanted for robbery and assault--but Diesel will only hand Annie over if Stephanie will do some matchmaking in her stead.
15) Private eyes
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Alex Delaware novels volume 6
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Psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has always looked on Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest triumphs. A terrified, tormented seven-year-old when she first appeared in his Los Angeles surgery, Melissa after two years seemed totally recovered. But nine years later Melissa contacts Alex again, anxious this time for her mother. As Alex recalls, weatlthy widow Gina Dickinson has problems of her own. For two decades she has hidden herself away from the...
16) Ten big ones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"America's favorite bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, faces a notorious gang in Trenton who wants her dead. Morelli warns that she's in for trouble, and Stephanie doesn't disagree, but the gang won't let her bow out. With Ranger nowhere to be found, Stephanie has to go into hiding. Out of nowhere, she stumbles on to the secret location of Ranger's 'bat cave.'"--from NoveList.
17) Dead watch
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At the request of the White House, an Army intelligence veteran investigates the disappearance of a former Senator, but the trail of clues leads him into the heart of a scandal that could cost him his life and topple the federal government.
18) Back story
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Spenser novels volume 30
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English
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Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
19) The watchman
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To repay a favor, Joe Pike now finds himself protecting Larkin Conner Barkley, a federal witness in a case agasint the mob. To insure that both of them make it to the court date alive, they disappear into the underbelly of Los Angeles. With the help of P.I. Elvis Cole they turn the tables and become the hunter instead of the hunted. In a world where even the cops aren't who they seem to be, Pike soon discovers his biggest threat may be from Larkin....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Precious Ramotswe, owner of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency in Botswana, finds herself with multiple mysteries on her hands, not the least of which is the failure of her assistant Grace Makutsi's fiance to show up for his and Grace's regular dinner date.
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