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21) Breaking point
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 13
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees.
22) Paradise valley
Author
Series
Highway Quartet volume Book 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. And she almost caught him...once. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. Standing by, ready to close the net are...
23) Blue heaven
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the killers whom they witnessed committing murder, twelve-year-old Annie and her younger brother William escape into the Idaho woods, pursued by the murderers and a group of dirty cops seeking to prevent the youngsters from revealing what they know.
24) Badlands
Author
Series
Highway Quartet volume Book 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard lives with his single mother in a small North Dakota town that was once just a stopover on the way to The Badlands but has recently boomed and become the heart of the Bakken Oil Field. Even though Kyle has been written off by everyone as "slow" and "learning disabled," he has dreams and deeper thoughts than anyone can imagine. He wants to get out of town, take care of his mother, and give them a better life. While...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Private Investigator Cassie Dewell's business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who's disappeared somewhere in the "treasure state". A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that's the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie...
26) Cold wind
Author
Series
Joe Pickett volume 11
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do -- especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin. But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up?
27) Back of beyond
Author
Series
Highway Quartet volume Book 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes...
28) Trophy hunt
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 408 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring guest-editor contributions by the Edgar Alan Poe Award-winning author of the Joe Pickett series, a latest annual anthology features top-selected short mystery and crime fiction stories from the past year"--