Mary Higgins Clark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
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Television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder. Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiancé, famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III, fifteen years ago. And Casey claims, has always claimed, she's innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living under suspicion. She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can't get a job....
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Parker Bennett has been missing for two years. He dropped out of sight-- on a sailboat in the Caribbean-- just before it was discovered that the $5 billion dollars in the fund he had been managing had vanished. Lane Harmon, assistant to an upscale interior designer, is working on his wife's townhouse. Gradually, Lane finds herself drawn to Eric, the Bennetts' son, who is determined to prove that his father is not guilty. Lane doesn't know that the...
44) I'll walk alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met....
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"In a first-time collaboration, "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series about a television program featuring cold case murders. Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program--a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected--is off to...
46) Remember me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
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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: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
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English
Description
A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car ... or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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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....
49) Deck the halls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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"Three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, the dynamic young sleuth featured in the novels of Carol Higgins Clark, accidentally meets Alvirah Meehan, Mary Higgins Clark's famous lottery winner and amateur detective, at a New Jersey dentist's office. That's where it all begins. While Regan's mother, Nora, the famous mystery writer, is in the hospital with a broken leg, her husband, Luke, and his chauffeur, Rosita, are kidnapped and held for a million-dollar...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Meet Sterling Brooks. His was not an exemplary life - he was too self-absorbed to ever really think about anyone else or make a commitment to the woman he loved. On the other hand, he had endearing qualities. His actual misdeeds were few - his were sins of omission, not commission. It is a few days before Christmas. For forty-six years Sterling has lingered in the celestial waiting room outside the heavenly gates, awaiting summons by the Heavenly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
790L
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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.
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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From the author of Remember Me and I'll Be Seeing You comes this brilliant collection of interconnected tales of sleuthing and suspense feature the return of Alvirah Meehan and her mate, Willis, who are back by popular demand. "No one knows better than Mary Higgins Clark how to turn fear into entertainment."--Associated Press.
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Fresh from her smashing success with the Alvirah and Willy stories of The Lottery Winner, the Queen of Suspense has gone straight to the top to create an extraordinary new sleuthing couple -- Henry and Sunday, a dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride
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Pub. Date
1995
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English
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Crime just seems to follow lottery-winning couple Willy and Alvirah Meehan wherever they go. But now Alvirah can sleuth to her heart's content! In this collection of stories, the couple is targeted and pursued by ex-cons after winning the lottery in "Plumbing for Willy," they discover the body of actress Fiona Winter in their New York apartment in "The Body in the Closet," and they help Cynthia Lathem solve the murder of her stepfather in "Death
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Even as a young girl, growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer, The gift of storytelling was a part of her Irish ancestry, so it followed naturally that she would later use her sharp eye, keen intelligence, and inquisitive nature to create stories. Along with all Americans, citizens of the Bronx suffered during the Depression. So when Mary's father died, her mother opened the family home to boarders and placed a discreet...
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Lovely young Kay Crandall has come back for the reunion of a high school where she once taught. But Kay cannot guess that the happy occasion is about to turn into a nightmare as she falls into the hands of a madman who wants to make her into his wife and his victim. From The Anastasia Syndrome, her best selling collection of short fiction, Terror Stalks the Class Reunion is a riveting production.
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark presents this delightfully chilling collection of original mystery stories. This fitting tribute to the world's most beloved crime writer, Dame Agatha Christie, showcases a house full of top contemporary writers at their very best.
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Pub. Date
[2000, 2004]
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English
Description
Deck the hall: Carol Higgins Clark's sleuth Regan Reilly meets Mary Higgins Clark's sleuth Alvirah Meehan at a New Jersey dentist's office and join forces after they learn that Regan's father has been kidnapped. Jack Reilly must return from Christmas vacation to deal with the inept kidnappers. Twists and turns, intrigue and good cheer abound. --The Christmas Thief: Alvirah Meehan-The improbable lottery winner-and private eye Regan Reilly team up to...