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Holly Barker novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods delivers a riveting thriller that introduces his first female protagonist, Deputy Chief of Police Holly Barker.
Forced into early retirement at thirty-seven, smart, attractive, and fiercely independent Major Holly Barker trades in her bars as a military cop for the badge of deputy chief of police in Orchid Beach, Florida. But below the sunny surface of this sleepy, well-to-do island town lies an evil...
2) 4th of July
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Women's Murder Club volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women' Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting...
4) Double cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Rejoining the police force in the wake of a series of elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross finds himself working to outmaneuver the killer's penchant for inducing hysteria with increasingly sensational killings.
5) The closers
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
In Los Angeles in 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide - but some of the evidence contradicted that scenario, and detectives came to believe this was in fact a murder. Despite a by-the-book investigation, no one was ever charged." "Now Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases, and...
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Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's -- his 'last case, ' unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just...
10) Bone box
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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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...
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Harbinder Kaur novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur investigates the seemingly unsuspicious death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition who had a very extensive collection of crime novels, each one dedicated to her and each containing a mysterious post-script.
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Apache Indian hit man Wilson "Crow" Cromartie returns to police chief Jesse Stone's Paradise, MA, to find the young daughter of his client. But trouble ensues when the daughter is involved in a Latino gang, and the father demands the mother killed. With Jesse's ex-wife reporting on the gang, danger escalates all around the young girl.
15) Off the grid
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On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is discovered in a vacant lot, her throat slashed. Later that day, two young men are found in their home a few blocks away, killed execution-style. The next morning, the dead bodies of three more men turn up, savagely murdered in...
16) Echo Park
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
Description
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
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Sunshine Vicram volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Hard Day for a Hangover is another humorous installment in Darynda Jones's wine mystery series deemed: "Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun." -New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there's just too much going on right now. There's a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels...
18) The hate u give
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
19) The witness
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After witnessing a murder eight years ago, Amy Griffin chose to accept a life in the shadows in order to protect her sisters' lives, but now that the man who wants Amy dead sees the sisters as the only way to locate her. Facing the future will take a faith deeper than any of them currently knows.
20) Skeleton man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime...
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