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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Kinsey Millhone gets in over her head when she becomes involved in an elusive mystery that literally entangles her in everyone's dirty laundry.
3) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
San Francisco police sergeant Lindsay Boxer receives a tip about a last-chance shipment of drugs and weapons across the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws in the latest addition to the long-running series--
22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge—or her life.
SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind.
There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive...
4) 15th affair
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 15
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Lindsay Boxer has a beautiful daughter and a husband she loves unconditionally. She's always been too focused on her career as a San Francisco police detective to wonder what domestic bliss might feel like, but now she knows and she's never been happier. She can't imagine that a brutal murder at a downtown luxury hotel, and the disappearance of a gorgeous blond woman from the scene, could have anything to do with her life and marriage-yet soon both...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
7) The burning
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English
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Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write brilliant, page-turning fiction (Stephen King). A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves....
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Series
I survived volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey Millhone to watch his daughter, thirty-two-year old Reba, who has just gotten out of jail, and make sure that she stays away from drinking, drugs, and gambling, but Reba is soon re-united with the ex-boss who got her into jail, land developer Alan Beckwith.
10) Q is for quarry
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself on the trail of a killer when she is hired by two ill and aging cops to help them solve the mystery of an eighteen=year-old murder in which the victim was never identified.
11) S is for silence
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again"--Container.
12) "N" is for noose
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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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English
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"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. 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....
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Kinsey Millhone, a private investigator in the small California town of Santa Teresa, faces a formidable enemy when she begins to suspect there is something not right about Solana Rojas, the home health care nurse hired to look after Kinsey's elderly neighbor and friend Gus.
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Series
Language
English
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In 1910, New York socialite Olivia resists an arranged, socially advantageous marriage. The mysterious death of her sister Eleanor in Northern California is an unhappy but convenient excuse to go West. On the way, she is nearly drowned, and decides to hide her identity when she arrives in Mercy Falls.
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Miracle Girls of Half Moon Bay! They may look ordinary, but each one is living out her second chance at life. Too bad it's their last chance at surviving high school!"--Provided by publisher.
17) Dream town
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Private Investigator and ex-World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case--
18) Desert gift
Author
Series
Side roads volume 2
Language
English
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"A nationally known marriage expert, Jillian Galloway is at the pinnacle of success. Her syndicated talk radio show is a hit and her first book is about to released. But just as she's leaving for her West Coast publicity tour, Jill's faithful husband of twenty-four years drops a bombshell: he wants a divorce. As her world crashes down around her, Jill flees to her parents home in the California desert, wondering if everything she's built her career...
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House of Wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Wolf's murdered father has left her in charge of a multi-billion-dollar empire--a newspaper, a football team, a holding company . . . and a family that makes Succession's Roys and Yellowstone's Duttons seem tame. The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head-thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football...
20) The never game
Author
Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. "You have been abandoned." A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons....
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