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Author
Series
Ali Cross volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Ali Cross has always looked up to his father, the famous detective Alex Cross, but when he witnesses something horrible, he must grapple with tough questions. Will Ali find a way to follow in his father's footsteps, or will he be the one in danger's path?
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 11
Pub. Date
[1966]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Alden children have an adventure as they journey along with the Little North Railroad in two cabooses rented for the summer by their grandfather.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 5
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The entire town of Yellow Sands is left puzzled by a mysterious fire.
Pub. Date
[2014-2015]
Description
The adventures of Jane Marple, an elderly woman who acts as a consulting detective in the village of St. Mary Mead.
Completely restored and remastered in stunning high definition, see Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as never before! Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in four thrilling whodunits: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced....
3089) Storm's peril
Author
Series
Amelia Storm volume 02
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Knowledge is power peril... In a city as large as Chicago, the wicked never sleep. When an undocumented migrant teenager goes missing, military veteran and Special Agent Amelia Storm teams up with her partner to take down what could be the most shocking forced labor and sex trafficking ring her hometown has ever seen. The case reeks of mafia involvement, but even with an investigative reporter as an informant, there's little in the way of leads....
3091) The purple bird mystery
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
What is the connection of "Fowl Relief" and an English golf-playing king? Does the nickname of Jimmy Douglas' great-great-grandfather have any significance? Tie these answers with the other clues and the mystery of the purple bird is solved, but not until DJuna, the brilliant young sleuth, and his pal Jimmy go through an ordeal that almost takes their lives. The boys tangle with an antique dealer and a tiger-skin diary - just to name a few of the...
3092) George gently : series 5
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Award-winning actor Martin Shaw stars as the principled detective George Gently in these three feature-length mysteries. These powerful dramas unfold against the beautiful backdrop of rural Britain during the tumultuous 1960s. Based on the long-running series of books by Alan Hunter.
3093) Prime suspect 5
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Having been demoted and transferred to the north, D.C.I. Tennison finds herself under-used until she gets a case where a 12-year-old boy confesses to murder. She becomes involved with trying to convict the local crime boss who has proved impossible to touch.
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Series
Pub. Date
©2014.
Description
The murder of a young ballerina named Sophie, apparently an arson victim, sets off shrill alarm bells for Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who remembers the matching details of an unsolved case from fifteen years earlier when Irene had only just started in the police force. The stepfather of the then eight-year-old Sophie has been murdered in a very similar way and at the time the girl herself had been under suspicions. The circumstances force Irene...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents...
3097) The cat sitter's pajamas
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Dixie Hemingway accepts a job taking care of famous linebacker Cupcake Trillin's cats. But what seems like an easy job turns scary when Dixie finds a celebrity fashion model in Cupcake's house. The woman refuses to leave "and" she also claims to be Cupcake's wife. Soon, Dixie is spun into the world of counterfeit high fashion.
3098) Someone else's skin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The debut of an exciting new series for fans of Sophie Hannah, Kate Atkinson, and Tana French. No two victims are alike. DI Marnie Rome knows this better than most. Five years ago, her family home was the scene of a shocking and bloody crime that left her parents dead and her foster brother in prison. Marnie doesn't talk much about her personal life, preferring to focus on work. Not even her partner, DS Noah Jake, knows much about Marnie's past....
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...
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Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"When Guthrie Hewitt calls on restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless, he doesn't know where else he can turn. Guthrie has fallen for a girl-Kira Adler. In fact, he was planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve. But his trip home with Kira over Thanksgiving made him uneasy. All her life, Kira has been haunted by a dream-a nightmare, really. In the dream, she witnesses her mother being murdered. She knows it can't be true because the dream...
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