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1) The whistler
Author
Series
Lucy Stoltz volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, takes on a case involving a corrupt judge, a Native American casino, and the mafia when a previously disbarred lawyer approaches her on behalf of a client who claims to know the truth.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the center of the mystery, working together to reveal the truth behind a decades-old secret in the sleepy town. After a narrow escape, they vowed to never again involve themselves in something so dangerous--until Janet...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer, Keith Russo, is shot to death as he works late. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but Cullen Post, the Episcopal minister in charge, gets more than he bargained for. Powerful people murdered Russo-- they do not want Miller exonerated, and will...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From one of the most gifted and beloved storytellers of her time comes a riveting new novel of suspense where one woman's picture-perfect island sanctuary reveals itself to be filled with dangers... At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. With no family and no ties, she's drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. Once she finds the right...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
Author
Series
Lacy Stoltz volume 2
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
9) Long shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The latest riveting thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series"--
"When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she'd made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and...
10) The water keeper
Author
Language
English
Description
"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They're driving to Florida for Ruth's 50th high school reunion. A long-time widow, Ruth would like very much to reconnect with Royce, the love of her youth. Bethanne's ex-husband, Grant, would like to reconcile, so she also has a major life decision to consider. And Annie is out to prove to her onetime boyfriend that she can live a brilliant life without...
12) Night vision
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 351 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a local teen from a trailer park being targeted by powerful developers witnesses their hired gun committing a murder, her only hope for survival falls in the hands of Doc Ford and Tomlinson, who undertake a search through the underground in the hopes of finding her first.
13) Bone Deep
Author
Language
English
Description
Ford journeys to a region of Central Florida where they confront a cutthroat subculture of black-marketers and a ruthless multibillion-dollar phosphate industry that hides murder victims among its bone remains.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother settle the family estate. For Marlow, the trip is a chance to reconnect after too long apart. It's also the perfect escape to help her feel grounded again, one she's happy to share with friends Aida and Claire, who are hoping to hit reset on their lives, too. A leisurely beachfront summer...
15) Night moves
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 20
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xiv, 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Unsure if he or his friend Tomlinson was the target of a recent murder attempt, Doc Ford continues investigating a near-poisoning, a plane crash, and an explosion off Sanibel Island .
Author
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her “honorary grandson” Jack. It’s a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they’ve become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she’s been given the listing for the town’s storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
570 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Jim Crow South, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
19) Dark light
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a massive hurricane off the coast of Florida, an elderly woman seeks Doc Ford's assistance in combing the reshaped ocean bottom for evidence that would exonerate a loved one for alleged activities during World War II.
20) Deep blue
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Assigned to track down an American working for ISIS and make sure he never kills anyone again, Doc Ford finds the operation more complicated than he anticipated, especially when those complications follow him back to the small community of Dinkin's Bay.