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1) The danger
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English
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Andrew Douglas, brilliant, insightful, a decent man, and Europe's most successful anti-kidnap operative, must stop Europe's most elusive and cold-blooded kidnapper, known as Guiseppe or Peter.
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
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English
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London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
3) Whip hand
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English
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From a New York Times–bestselling author, a "solid winner in just about any mystery/adventure race" featuring a private eye targeting racetrack corruption (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Sid Halley's career as a jockey-and his marriage-were brought to a sudden end by a heartbreaking accident. His glory days are over, but now, as a...
4) The silkworm
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Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
5) Hush money
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Spenser novels volume 26
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Spenser almost gets himself killed trying to help out friends when he agrees to check out the reasons why Robinson Nevins was denied tenure at the university, while also attempting to come to the aid of K. C. Roth, a stalking victim who finds Spenser very much to her liking.
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"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
9) Nemesis
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English
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Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young girl.
10) Gone
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
12) L.A. times
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English
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Vinnie Callabrese moves from the world of the Mafia in New York to the intrigues of tinseltown and carves a niche in the film industry until his old friends find him.
13) Hit man
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John Keller novels volume 1
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English
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A collection of stories featuring the character of Keller, a professional assassin who deals with the normal problems of loneliness, job dissatisfaction, and self-doubt, while going about his gruesome work.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
16) Mummy
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
Emlyn is a model student who gets involved in a prank to steal a mummy and when the night arrives, everything goes wrong.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 4
Publisher
H. Holt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
An ex-con turns up dead after he hires Kinsey to locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000.
20) False pretenses
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Secrets of Roux River Bayou volume 1
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English
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"Zoe Broussard stands in the shade of the live oak tree on rue Madeline and surveys her beloved Louisiana hometown. Wrought-iron galleries overhang the sidewalk lined with brightly colored shops, and the smell coffee wafts from the Cajun eatery she and her husband Pierce, own, which brings folks all the way from Lafayette for lunch or dinner. It seems like heaven. But it's about to become hell. A series of threatening anonymous notes is making her...
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