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1) 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...
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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...
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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
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
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English
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the world's first psychological thrillers. A mesmerizing detective story with an intriguing and multifarious central character, Crime and Punishment hinges on the ethical dilemmas and angst of the student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov who plans and implements the murder of a ruthless pawnbroker. Rodion convinces himself that in killing her he will both solves his financial problems
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Jack Reacher novels volume 20
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English
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"Why is this town called Mother's Rest?' That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and all...
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Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey's origins and Sue's past.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been “ruined” and abandoned on the streets of Rome by her rascally lover. With a typical disregard for convention, Amelia promptly hires her fellow countrywoman as a companion...
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"Hannah Swensen is thrilled to be marrying Ross Barton, her college crush. Her excitement only grows when she learns he'll be able to join her on her trip to New York City for the Food Channel's dessert chef contest. Hannah wins the Hometown Challenge and the producers bring all the contestants to Lake Eden to tape the remainder of the show. It's nerve-wracking enough being judged by Alain Duquesne, a celebrity chef with a nasty reputation. But...
11) Proof positive
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 3
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English
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Defense attorney Doug Weaver believes his client, Jacob Cohen, is innocent-but the forensic evidence proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the meek, mentally ill homeless man killed and dismembered a woman . . .Hired to defend gangster Art Prochaska against charges that he murdered an informer, lawyer Amanda Jaffe and her father, Frank, have their work cut out for them-because, as improbable as it seems, the forensic clues scream that Prochaska...
12) Plain killing
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Rachel Mast finds the Amish are no more immune from crime than the people they call the English. It's been years since restless Rachel fled her family's farm as a teen. Starting with only the eighth-grade education afforded most Amish kids, she earned an MBA from Wharton and became successful in business. But Rachel never felt at home in the English world. So she came back to run a bed-and-breakfast in Stone Mill, near central Pennsylvania's thriving...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 5
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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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.
15) Missing
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"Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find--except it's not just the man who's gone missing. Despite the most advanced technology at their disposal, they find every trace of him has vanished, too. And they aren't the only ones on the hunt." --
16) Escape clause
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
17) NYPD red 2
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NYPD red novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on...
18) Career of evil
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Cormoran Strike novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible-and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.
"A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel...
20) "N" is for noose
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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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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