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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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On July 4, 1953, in the town of Serena Station, Violet Sullivan left for the annual fireworks display and was never seen again. Some say she ran off with one of her many lovers in her new Chevrolet Bel Air; others say she was murdered by her abusive husband. But for her 6-year-old daughter, Daisy, Violet's disappearance has never been explained...and her absence never forgotten. Now, 34 years later, Daisy wants the solace of closure and hires Kinsey...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Sleuth Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the detritus of a dead man's life, a man who was wanted dead by everyone he knew. He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Las Vegas, 1986. A young college graduate is murdered when he is unable to pay back a loan from notorious criminal Lorenzo Dante. Two years later private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself assisting to apprehend a shoplifter, Audrey Vance. Events take a much darker turn when Audrey's body is discovered in a local suicide spot. Unable to believe she took her own life, Audrey's fiancé Marvin Striker hires Kinsey to investigate. Meanwhile Lorenzo...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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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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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
Thorndike Press large print basic
Alphabet murders volume 21
Kinsey Milhone mysteries volume 21
Thorndike Press large print basic
Alphabet murders volume 21
Kinsey Milhone mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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When she is hired by a preppy college dropout to discover what happened to a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Eighteen years after the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify the long-ago murder victim.
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"A community is devastated when the bronze statue of local legend Mama Cuento is stolen on Valentine's Day. When Lexy Campbell arrives on the scene, a big bronze toe is found along with a ransom note--'Listen to our demands or you will never see her again. There are nine more where this came from.' Then, Lexy's ex-husband Bran turns up begging for help to find his wife, Brandee, who has disappeared. Lexy agrees to pitch in, but when she shows up at...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one-a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret-and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Get ready for one of Kinsey Millhone's "wildest adventures yet" ( San Francisco Examiner ) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton L is for LIES... When Kinsey Millhone's landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Lee's family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks it'll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life. L is...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 9
Alphabet murders volume 09
A Kinsey Millhone mystery volume 09
Thorndike Press large print famous authors
Alphabet murders volume 09
A Kinsey Millhone mystery volume 09
Thorndike Press large print famous authors
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Morley Shine, a fellow PI, dies from a heart attack, Kinsey Millhone takes over the seemingly simple task of gathering evidence for Lonnie Kingman, a local attorney immersed in a civil suit. Stakes are high. David Birney, acquitted of his wealthy wife's murder five years ago, got his hands on her fortune. Now Kingman wants to divest Birney of the money in favor of the wife's child by an earlier marriage. But the statute of limitations has about...
12) X
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X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. Notoriously tricky to pronounce: think xylophone. X: The twenty-fourth letter in the English alphabet. Sue Grafton's X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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"Malek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction and one of the few still in family hands. Today, the three Malek sons stand to inherit a fortune, but in order for any one of them to claim his share, the missing fourth brother must be found..."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Let's talk about Kinsey's past. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, and her long-lost family up the California coast. But what about Kinsey's husband number one? He was always a blip on the radar--until now. Kinsey receives a call from a random guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week, he bought a stack of boxes--and Kinsey's name turned up inthem. For thirty bucks, Kinsey buys the lot and finds,...
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The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
16) River Road
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It's been thirteen years since Lucy Sheridan was in Summer River. The last time she visited her Aunt Sara there, as a teenager, she'd been sent home suddenly after being dragged out of a wild party--by the guy she had a crush on, just to make it more embarrassing. Obviously Mason Fletcher--only a few years older but somehow a lot more of a grown-up--was the overprotective type who thought he had to come to her rescue. Now, returning after her aunt's...
17) "N" is for noose
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.
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A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins-- and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton herself, and reflect her troubled family life and the author's journey from anger to understanding and forgiveness.
19) W is for wasted
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Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants...
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