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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Two years after her adult daughter's apparent death in a canoeing accident, Marcy Taggart thinks she sees her while on holiday in Ireland, and frantically tries to find her again, all the while hoping to finally put her own mind at ease.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A lifetime ago, every year Caroline Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated, Caroline is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the anniversary of Samantha's disappearance. However, this year...
24) Caught
Author
Language
English
Description
Wendy Tynes, a reporter who identifies sexual predators through sting operations, has publicly shamed dozens of men before she encounters Dan Mercer. Dan is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Wrongly arrested after fleeing from her abusive husband, a mother desperately fights corrupt authorities to recover her stolen children; while a man across the country hears the story on the news and identifies links to similar events in his own past.
27) 10th anniversary
Author
Series
The women's murder club volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
28) Promise me
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
29) Back spin
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar novel volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When veteran golfer Jack Coldren, staging a comeback at the U.S. Open, is found dead in a sand trap, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates, digging through twenty years of secrets to find a killer who is closer to him than he imagined.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Accepting a teaching job at his former school in the wake of a failed writing career, Matthias guiltily reflects on his role in the disappearance of a classmate ten years earlier and becomes compelled to learn the young man's fate.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects three stories, including "The Killer's Wife, " in which Detective McGrath encourages a relationship with a suspect's wife in order to locate six missing girls.
The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems....
The Killer's Wife (with...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
"Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. The two couples have known each other since childhood. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are also the best of friends. When they and two other local...
34) Haunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett...
35) My story
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
37) I won't get lost
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Convinced that he will never get lost, a young dragon doodles instead of learning his address and telephone number in school.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Aleida's search for her missing child sets her on a collision course with Hugh, a charismatic BBC radio correspondent. During the London Blitz, they will risk their lives to discover the truth--and find a connection closer than they could have ever imagined"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted...