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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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An anonymous diary is a mystery with handwriting that is difficult to decipher. It is filled with technical drawings and chemical formulas. Was the destructive explosion an accident or an act of revenge?
42) Dark of the moon
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Virgil Flowers was brought into the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension by a promise from Lucas Davenport: "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He's been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he's never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. This is the third murder in just as many weeks, and it's becoming clear that Flowers has stepped into a killer's...
43) Silent scream
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Minneapolis volume 02
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English
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Detective Olivia Sutherland works with firefighter David Hunter, with whom she shared a night of passion years earlier, to track down a sadistic blackmailer and killer who is using a group of college students to do his bidding.
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"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..." I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size. It's a shock that makes my breath catch. This is my brother as an adult, my brother who I last saw fifteen years ago after the fire that killed our parents, covered in soot, clutching a lighter in his hand, his knuckles stark white against the dirt and ash....
45) Crisis
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Harrison Foster, crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. When human remains are found among the equestrian ones, all the stable staff are accounted for. So who is the mystery victim? The Chadwick family is a dysfunctional racing dynasty, and sibling rivalry bubbles away like volcanic magma beneath a thin crust of respectability. As Harry delves deeper into the...
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Mysteries of Martha's Vineyard volume 11
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A series of suspicious fires plagues the island, and puts everyone on edge--is there an arsonist in their midst? If so, who is setting the fires, and why? When Priscilla's lighthouse is set ablaze, she launches her own arson investigation. Her search for the firebug takes her all over Martha's Vineyard--and directly into the path of danger--before she finally discovers the shocking truth. Meanwhile, a plan to rezone a historic part of their beautiful...
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Introducing Detective P.T. Marsh in a swift and bruising debut where Elmore Leonard's staccato prose meets Greg Iles' Southern settings. How can you solve a crime if you've killed the prime suspect? Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia--until his wife and young son were killed in an accident. Since that night, caught in a spiral of grief and booze, he's lost the ability to see the line between smart moves...
48) Malibu burning
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Sharpe and Walker volume 01
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English
Description
"Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles' history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 26
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English
Description
"Bitter Harvest is the chronicle of this tragedy in the heartland of America, the true story of the disintegration of a marriage and its horrifying consequences. Ann Rule has no equal in the delineation of the aberrant criminal mind. As in her earlier books, she takes her readers deep into the psyche of a killer whose behavior, so twisted and so evil, defies belief. Her book is also the story of the tireless and skillful arson investigators, forensic...
50) Crunch time
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Caterer and amateur sleuth-extraordinaire Goldy Schulz digs into a deadly smorgasbord that includes a heaping helping of murder, a double dose of arson ... and nine adorable beagle puppies!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Chronicles the events surrounding a fire at Seton Hall University on January 19, 2000, in which three students were killed and others injured, focusing on the unique friendship between two of the burned victims, Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, that developed as the men recovered from devastating burns.
52) Against the fire
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"Once one of the 'no-account Raines boys,' Gabriel Ranies has pulled himself out of poverty by his bootstraps to become a successful businessman--one who has become the target of revenge... You can't fight what you can't see. And Gabriel Raines can't be sure who's setting the fires in his new real estate development. When two fires hit back-to-back, he knows it's personal, but any number of competitors or ex-employees could be the arsonist. The police...
53) Fireproof
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"New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava returns in a blaze of glory with a gripping, action-packed thriller featuring special agent Maggie O'Dell, who is leading the search for a serial arsonist whose crimes threaten Maggie dangerously close to home. When a building bursts into flames on a cold winter night in D.C., investigators see a resemblance to a string of recent fires in the area. There is one difference, however: This one has a human...
54) The burning
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
William W. Johnstone's Last Gunfighter novels have made him a national bestselling author and confirmed his standing as America's most popular chronicler of the Wild West—and of the men and women who tamed it. Now, he brings his gritty, hard-edged vision of the frontier to a story of greed, power, and courage, as a beautiful land is caught in the grips of a...
William W. Johnstone's Last Gunfighter novels have made him a national bestselling author and confirmed his standing as America's most popular chronicler of the Wild West—and of the men and women who tamed it. Now, he brings his gritty, hard-edged vision of the frontier to a story of greed, power, and courage, as a beautiful land is caught in the grips of a...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 14
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English
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Kate Shugak agrees to help a young woman clear her mother's name, and sets out to prove that Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff did not kill her seventeen-year-old son more than thirty years ago, but her investigation is complicated by Victoria's refusal to help Kate uncover the truth.
57) Point of origin
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
Description
aJohn Orr is a veteran arson investigator with a sixth sense for placing the origin of suspect fires. His partner, Keith, has taken all he's learned from Orr to a joint task force in search of the killer. If the knowledge it takes to commit the crime is the knowledge it takes to solve it, then one of these two men is tracking the other. Based on a true story of a man leading a double life by setting fires in Southern California and investigating the...
58) Hands down
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"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
59) Sinister
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New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan unite their talents in this riveting novel of family secrets, obsession, and murder. A Killer's Patience Twenty years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family's old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Most people blamed a serial arsonist who'd been seen around town. But strange things are happening in Prairie Creek, Wyoming, again. Will Be...
60) Mr. Taken
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"Though he's ridiculously handsome and notoriously funny, it's Colter Fitzgerald's firefighting skills that are most needed by Whitney Barstow--at first. She's been traumatized by fire and terrified that the arsonist sabotaging Dunrovin Ranch is a madman from her past. She's also fearful that harm will come to any man she loves, so denies her attraction to Colter. Then why is she jealous of another woman's hands all over him?" --WorldCat.
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