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21) Dust
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
"The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume Book 11
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When he investigates the murder of an actress outside of her Beverly Hills home, FBI agent Alex Cross learns that the attack was the latest in a series of celebrity killings linked to the elusive Mary Smith.
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Series
Language
English
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"A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming,...
25) Invisible
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Language
English
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Description
On leave from her FBI researcher career, Emmy Dockery tries to convince her boyfriend that hundreds of unsolved cases are linked to a single perpetrator.
"Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even...
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Series
Publisher
Orion Books.com
Pub. Date
2013, c1994
Edition
1st oversize mass market ed.
Physical Desc
550 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The family of a notorious serial killer whom homicide detective Harry Bosch shot during an arrest four years ago has accused him of killing the wrong man, and has filed a civil suit against the LAPD. The allegation becomes horrifyingly plausible when a new murder occurs with all the hallmarks of the dead slayer's style.
27) Running blind
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Series
Language
English
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Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren't totally sure he's not the killer they're looking for, but believe that even if he isn't, he's smart enough to help them find the real killer. And what they've got on the ex-MP is enough to ensure his grudging cooperation: phony charges stemming from Reacher's inadvertent involvement in a protection shakedown and the threat of...
28) The Healer
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Series
O'Malley volume 5
Language
English
Description
When a school shooting rips through her community, Rachel O'Malley must find the child who saw the shooting and locate the missing gun.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
573 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Beginning in December 1884, the emerging metropolis of Austin, Texas, was terrorized by vicious and diabolical killings that foreshadowed London's infamous Jack the Ripper. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
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Alex Delaware volume 29
Language
English
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Description
"Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't...
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Series
Stephanie Plum novel volume 24
Language
English
Description
"Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won't let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie's main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snake is that she owns a stun gun--whether that's for use on the wandering serpent or the petrified neighbors remains to be seen. Events take a dark turn when headless bodies start...
32) All that remains
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
525 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Bosch volume 7
Language
English
Description
The LAPD asks Terrence McCaleb to investigate a series of puzzling murders and quickly discovers that the profile of the killer matches someone with whom he has worked with in the past--Detective Harry Bosch.