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2) Cannery Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
3) Private
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Returning home from Afghanistan after being wounded, Jack Morgan is called into California State Prison to visit his father, Tom, who is serving a life sentence for extortion and murder. Before being incarcerated, Tom ran a private investigation firm called 'Private'. Tom wants Jack to re-start the company, to make it great again, and gives him access to a $15 million dollar account in the Cayman Islands to do it with. Five years later, Jack has set...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect....
Author
Series
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 the...
7) River road
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Language
English
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Description
The last time Lucy Sheridan visited her aunt Sara in Summer River thirteen years ago, she'd been sent home suddenly after being dragged out of a wild party by the guy she had a crush on. Now, returning after her aunt's fatal car accident, Lucy learns that Mason Fletcher had saved her from a very nasty crime that night and soon afterward, Tristan, the cold-blooded rich kid who'd targeted her, disappeared mysteriously. Lucy now works as a forensic...
Author
Series
Irene Kelly mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, a homicide detective named Philip Lefebvre disappeared. When his corpse is found, detective Frank Harriman sets out to find the killer. Everyone suspects drug dealer Whitey Dane, but Frank knows that Lefebvre wasn't murdered by a vengeful dealer. His killer was a pathological murderer who is still on the loose.
9) The promise
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Series
Language
English
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"Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice -- these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components...
13) 11th hour
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer even one of her closest friends. Lindsay is called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnesses: two...
14) Frenzy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
19) Hank & Chloe
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Chloe Morgan is a thirty-three-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling canyonlands of Southern California. Calloused and wary, Chloe allows herself to love with total abandon and complete faith only her horse and her dog. That is, until a quirk in the weather and a sunrise funeral service cause her to cross the path of Henry Oliver, a sedate professor...
20) The hunter
Author
Publisher
Dutton Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"How did your mother die?" For San Francisco private-eye Wyatt Hunt, the text message triggers a search for clues about his personal life from his mother that was murdered to his father who was charged with the crime but not convicted.