Richard Ferrone
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by...
2) The good guy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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880L
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English
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Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
3) Bone box
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On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
4) Certain prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Clara Rinker is the best hit woman in the business. She's been hired by an attorney in Minnesota who wants a rival eliminated. But the witness survives, the attorney starts acting strangely and a big cop named Lucas Davenport gets on her case. There are loose ends popping up everywhere and Lucas is in for the run of his life."--from NoveList.
5) Silent prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best--murdering one helpless victims after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. new he has a second opportunity--and the time to hesitate is through.
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As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now, he and his devoted wife Rena Lazarus are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children and their foster son. But working for the Greenbury Police department isn't as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed...
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When Kidd-artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal-learns of a colleague's murder, he doesn't buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It's not what his friend was looking for that got him killed. It's what he already knew. For Kidd and LuEllen, infiltrating the firm is the first move. Discovering the secrets of its devious entrepreneur is the next. But it's...
8) Masked prey
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The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures...of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups. It's obviously alarming--is there an unstable extremist tracking...
10) Eyes of prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Lt. Lucas Davenport, the heroic detective introduced in Rules of Prey, faces his most terrifying case when a series of gruesome mutilation killings shocks Minneapolis. Davenport's case will either bring him back to life--or send him over the edge. "One of the nastiest villains in recent fiction. . . ".--Publishers Weekly.
11) Secret prey
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Series
Prey series volume 9
Lucas Davenport volume 09
Wheeler large print book
Prey novel volume 09
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Lucas Davenport volume 09
Wheeler large print book
Prey novel volume 09
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"When a CEO dies in a hunting "accident" during an expedition with four executives, each with his or her own agenda, Lucas Davenport investigates and finds himself caught in a web of indefinable evil whose threads lead to a harrowing conspiracy."--from NoveList.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Atretes, a revered gladiator, has won his freedom and vows to find the son he believed had died, but retrieving the baby from Rizpah, the young widow who has raised the child from birth, proves more difficult than he thought it would be, and Atretes is moved to take Rizpah into his household and into his heart.
13) Wicked prey
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The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention, and crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stickup men who've spotted opportunities ranging from political moneymen with briefcases full of cash to that armored-car warehouse with the weakness in its security system. All that is headache enough for Lucas Davenport - but what's about to hit him is even worse....
14) Golden prey
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"Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him. And where they've led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five...
15) Field of prey
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"Lucas Davenport investigates the discovery of several bodies in an abandoned Minnesota farmyard, discovering the work of a local serial killer who has been murdering one victim every summer for years"--Provided by OCLC.
16) Phantom prey
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Prey series volume 18
Prey novel volume 18
Thorndike Press large print basic
Lucas Davenport novel volume 18
Prey novel volume 18
Thorndike Press large print basic
Lucas Davenport novel volume 18
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English
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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.
19) Winter prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Called in to assist the sheriff from a remote, rural area of Wisconsin in his investigation into a brutal triple homicide, Lucas Davenport begins to uncover a shocking series of vicious crimes that stun even Davenport with their evil intent.
20) Rules of prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"The killer was mad, but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder: Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used...So many rules to his sick, violent games of death. But Lucas Davenport, the cop who's out to get him isn't playing by the rules" -- Front end paper.