James Patterson
1) NYPD Red
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called....
2) Unlucky 13
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 13
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer,...
4) NYPD Red 3
Author
Series
NYPD Red volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Protect the rich. Serve the famous. Hunt the guilty. Hunter Alden, Jr., a billionaire businessman, has it all: a sexy wife, a brilliant teenage son, and an ever-growing fortune. But his perfect life shatters one horrific night when he discovers the severed head of his chauffeur, stuffed in a bag marked, in blood, with his son's initials. Now his son is missing, and the price to get him back might be too high--even for one of the world's richest men....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a state funeral for a former first lady at a New York City cathedral, armed men disguised as monks seize the church and dozens of hostages, and NYPD officer Michael Bennett takes on the dangerous role of lead negotiator in the standoff.
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club novel volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and the other members of the Women's Murder Club try to find out who is responsible for a series of violent incidents, all with links to political terrorism and the sinister "August Spies."
Author
Series
Honeymoon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all seem to be newlyweds.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Struggling to maintain family cohesion after the death of her husband, Katherine Dunne plans an elaborate sailing vacation that is unexpectedly challenged by difficulties with her children and a catastrophic accident.
10) Now you see her
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The perfect life
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes.
The perfect lie
Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing a particularly vicious killer in his latest investigation, Alex Cross finds his family targeted by the vengeful Mastermind, a situation complicated by tension in his relationship with his girlfriend and his daughter's unexplained seizures.
12) 12th of never
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsay's homicide department to report a murder that hasn't yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says he's ready to tell where...
13) Judge and jury
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Successfully arresting Dominic "the Electrician" Cavello, an influential mafia boss, in an operation that leaves two fellow agents dead, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante struggles with internal corruption that could prevent the man's conviction.
Author
Series
Jack Morgan volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his former lover is found murdered in his own bed, Jack Morgan, former Marine and founder of the world's most effective private investigation company, must clear his name while also solving murders at a posh hotel.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Cross joins forces with a female San Francisco detective to investigate a pattern of murders occurring across the country that draws him into the bizarre subculture of ritual role-playing and vampirism.