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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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A dark shadow of fear has fallen over Newpointe, Louisiana. First one, then another of the town firemen's wives has been murdered, and a third has barely escaped an attempt on her life. Incredible as it seems, a serial killer is stalking this sleepy little southern community.
A serial killer is stalking the wives of the firemen in a Louisiana town.
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Newpointe 911 volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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"Detective Stan Shepherd lies comatose in the hospital, a victim of arsenic poisoning. The Newpointe police have a suspect: Celia Shepherd, Stan's wife. Celia is no stranger to such charges. When her first husband died of poisoning, a technicality scuttled the case. It looks like the same story -- only this time, the motive seems plain: Celia's old flame has come to town. But attorney Jill Clark thinks the puzzle pieces fit together too neatly. Either...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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There were four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off. Three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose. Who would do such a thing? The answer seems to come in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of Jill Clark's hotel room. The young attorney finds it hard to question that her desperate captor - who has a rifle pointed at her head - is guilty of the bombing. Until later, when he's behind bars......
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The shrill sound of the firehouse horn pierces the hazy sleep of pastor and firefighter Nick Foster before he discovers that his church is ablaze. As the firefighters enter the church, Nick stumbles over a body and carries it out just before the building collapses around them. But as the smoldering embers glow in the gentle breeze of the following day, Nick realizes that whoever set the fire is out to destroy him.
6) Line of duty
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When a bomb explodes in the 30-story Icon International building, fire departments from around the area are called in to battle the blaze. But as they work to evacuate the upper floors more bombs explode, trapping firefighters and civilians beneath the rubble. When the smoke clears, lawyer Jill Clark Nichols realizes that her husband Dan, one of the firefighters, is missing. Can Jill's faith carry her through the long days of pain and uncertainty?...
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When a plane carrying Bree Nichols' husband and son disappears, her life changes forever. Her relentless determination to find them starts an investigation that links their disappearance to a violent crime threatening to tear the peacerful town of Rock Harbor apart.
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Thorndike Press
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2004.
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English
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Following A Penny for Your Thoughts, this is the second installment in her Million Dollar Mystery series. Callie returns home to help a young woman, Shayna, prepare for a new job. But they soon discover the dead body of Shayna's boyfriend. Only by turning to God for help can Callie solve this deadly mystery.
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Book two in the Santee Series picks up with Baxter Richardson's recovery from a near-fatal fall from a cliff. Married to Rena, a suspicious and highly unstable woman, Baxter is faced with a choice of staggering ramifications. While Rena Richardson is desperately trying to conceal her crime, her attorney, Alexia Lindale, struggles to put the pieces of the case, as well as her own life, back together. As the mysterious circumstances surrounding Baxter's...
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Callie Webber's budding romance is interrupted by attempted murder. Her mentor Eli has been shot, a sniper's bullet piercing his chest. Rushing to Eli's aid, Callie finds herself on the island of St. John, where she puts her P.I. license to good use. A little digging into Eli's past uncovers his secret connections to the NSA and to a mysterious woman who was supposed to be dead.
13) Love the sinner
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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When her philandering, con-artist husband is murdered, Gracie Lee Harris, with the help of God and some newfound friends, wades through a wealth of suspects--all women her husband scorned and cheated--to catch a killer.
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"It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent. A woman of means ... but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him in a most public manner. Now everyone believes Clive is headed for the gallows. Everyone, that is, but Serafina....
16) Midnight sea
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A shooting at her aunt's coffee plantation leaves Lani Tagama blind. Adjusting to her new disability isn't easy for Lani, but she is coping with the help of her loved ones and a half-trained seeing eye dog. The shooting that blinded her was written off as a random incident by the police, but Lani can't help wondering if the crime was as motiveless as people believe. As she begins to dig for answers, Lani soon learns that she was right, and that the...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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When it seems that vandals are threatening her campground and canoe rentals, Trudy Lynn Brown accepts help from Cody Keringhoven, who is recuperating from a white-water rafting accident; but the vandals are criminals who will stop at nothing to drive Trudy Lynn from her land.
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Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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English
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"As a teenager, Dinah Westlake had witnessed the murder of her pregnant cousin, but a concussion blocked her memories of that night. Now, ten years later, her cousin's widower, Marc Devlin, had returned to Charleston to give his young son a true Southern Christmas. It was a chance to make amends in a family torn apart by the tragedy, and the suspicion that Marc was responsible for his wife's demise. But when several dangerous "accidents" occurred...