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1) Dark angel
Author
Series
Letty Davenport novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Letty Davenport's days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas--and her incredible skills with firearms--draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work. The Department of Homeland Security and the NSA have tasked her with infiltrating a hacker group, known only as Ordinary People, that is intent on wreaking havoc. Letty and her reluctant...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I'm drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
5) Outfox
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English
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FBI agent Drex Easton is relentlessly driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver the conman once known as Weston Graham. Over the past thirty years, Weston has assumed many names and countless disguises, enabling him to lure eight wealthy women out of their fortunes before they disappeared without a trace, their families left without answers and the authorities without clues. The only common trait among the victims: a new man in their life who also vanished,...
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English
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"Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise--that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Pictures' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they've got. What they need is prestige, the cache of a respected studio to lend...
7) Abandon
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Series
Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
Years ago, on her honeymoon in Maine, Abigail Browning's FBI agent husband Chris was killed. Immersing herself in her own police work, Abigail tried moving on, but she remained haunted by unanswered questions. Seven years later, on their anniversary she receives a phone call that suggests his murder wasn't a random act of violence, but a hit perpetrated by a serial killer.
Author
Series
Women of justice volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Samantha Cash has a skill Connor Wolfe needs, catching killers through computers. When she poses as a target, her virtual world becomes real, and deadly.
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Language
English
Description
"With the FBI at the Epicenter of the war on terrorism, no institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is as powerful. Yet until now, no book has presented the full story of the FBI from its beginnings in 1908 to the present." "Kessler focuses on the agents who have made its cases and the directors who have run...
12) The FBI
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title explores the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), its history, and its role in today's fast-moving world of law enforcement. Readers will learn how this federal agency, as the main investigative force of the United State government, makes sure that laws are obeyed and crimes are prevented. Areas explored will include how agents are selected and trained, how the FBI investigates terrorism, and how it gathers intelligence and collects evidence...
14) In harm's way
Author
Series
Heroes of Quantico volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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FBI special agent Nick Bradley has seen his share of kooks during his fifteen years with the Bureau. Rachel Sutton is not like the rest-she seems completely normal when she shows up at the FBI office in St. Louis. But when she pulls out a tattered Raggedy Ann doll and tells him that when she touches it she's overcome by a strange feeling that something is terribly wrong, Nick dismisses her. When he stumbles across a link between the doll and an...
17) The informant!
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When the FBI needs evidence on an agri-business giant accused of price-fixing, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a secret agent.
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth look at the people and policies behind the government agency known as the FBI, from its founding in 1908 to the controversies and challenges it faces today"--
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Series
Language
English
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In bestseller Griffin's gung-ho fifth presidential agent novel (after The Shooters), the U.S. president assigns Lt. Col. Charley Castillo, a member of the Office of Organizational Analysis, a special task-to track down the terrorists who murdered an American diplomat in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Castillo's inquiries lead him to a pair of defecting Russian spies, they offer information about an Iranian-run bioweapons factory hidden in the Congo....