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1) Dark places
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the...
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the...
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First in the New York Times bestselling series featuring fierce female vigilantes—includes a bonus Sisterhood chapter and an interview with Fern Michaels!
Life isn't fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty . . . if you're part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be—but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to
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"They knew his name, the man who tried to brutally attack twelve-year-old Madeline in her grandmother's hotel. They thought they knew his fate. He wouldn't be bothering them anymore...ever. Still their lives would never be the same. Nearly two decades later, Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother's mysterious death. And at the old, abandoned hotel a dying man's last words convey a warning: the secrets she and Daphne believed...
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In Death series volume 27
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The priest at a Catholic funeral mass brings the chalice to his lipsand falls over dead. When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contains potassium cyanide, she's determined to find out who committed this unholy act.
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Paris Gibson, having moved to Austin, Texas to escape past mistakes, is forced out of her life of self-imposed solitude when a listener to her late-night radio show calls to inform her that he has abducted and plans to kill his ex-girlfriend, a woman he claims left him on Paris's advice, and that Paris will be his second victim.
6) The crush
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Dr. Rennie Newton, having served on a jury that acquitted notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada, forms an uneasy alliance with Fort Worth detective Wick Threadgill when Lozada makes her the target of his fatal attentions.
7) Angel's Fall
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Reece Gilmore has been on the run since a brutal crime ruined her life, causing nightmares and panic attacks that leave her desperate for an escape, and when she arrives at the Grand Tetons, she thinks she may have found a sanctuary, until she witnesses a murder that no one believes ever happened.
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Deeper than the dead novels volume 2
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Four-year-old Haley Fordham witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate and newly married to FBI criminal profiler Vince Leone. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer. Takes place in 1986.
9) Stolen prey
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Prey series volume 22
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"Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president...
10) 7th heaven
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Women's Murder Club volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Detective Lindsay Boxer turns to the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club for help as she tries to find the missing teenage son of a recent governor and track down an arsonist that is burning San Francisco's most beautiful homes, with the owners still inside.
11) The innocent
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Matt Hunter, released from prison for accidentally killing someone when breaking up a fight, has his life back on track--a beautiful, pregnant wife, and a pending deal on the house of his dreams--until he receives bizarre photographs that send him running from the law.
13) Play dirty
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Former football player Griff Burkett, out of prison after a five-year sentence for racketeering, takes a paraplegic Texas millionaire up on his offer of a half a million dollars to impregnate his wife, Laura--by natural conception--and finds himself falling for her while trying to avoid being pinned for an unsolved murder by the corrupt detective who arrested him before.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 26
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The villagers in the north of Scotland rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray. Pete is always able to find work in the highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder....
15) The professional
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Spenser novels volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Spenser, a Boston private investigator, agrees to help local lawyer Elizabeth Shaw track down a man who has been blackmailing and murdering the wives of Elizabeth's wealthy clients, but as the case becomes increasingly complicated, Spenser fears he may be in over his head.
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 20
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Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James's young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying I do
17) Free fall
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Yoko Akia's mother was only fifteen when a wealthy man swept her off her feet with promises of love. Instead, he filled her brief life with horror and misery. The Sisterhood has helped each other exact vengeance on rotten men before, but this time it's different. Their target is none other than America's favorite movie star-a brute who has conned the world into believing he's Mister Perfect. But he's about to learn that nobody-not even a powerful...
18) The Witch Elm
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"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...
19) Vendetta
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Sisterhood series volume 3
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Once upon a time there were seven very different women who had been broken but not beaten by life. In those tough days of healing, they became the Sisterhood, a group of devoted friends who vowed to change their lives, empower themselves, and be there for each other, no matter what. Now, they're ready to answer the call for the woman who started it all, Myra Rutledge.
Five years ago, Myra's pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver--the...
20) Prior bad acts
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Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Minneapolis detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, assigned to protect Judge Carey Moore who has come under fire for repressing accused serial killer Kurt Dahl's prior criminal record, are burdened with a much more urgent task when Moore is kidnapped from her home, and Dahl escapes from prison.
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