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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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"Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the 'Star Crossed Killer' case for months, never imagining she'd be captured by the madman she's been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he's capable of--and avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage and cunning. Regan Pescoli is unlike any woman Nate Santana has met before. But now she's missing, and Nate knows something is dangerously wrong. The only person who can help him find her is Detective...
6) Dark places
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
9) The Yard
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English
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New to the Murder Squad, a special team of twelve detectives in Victorian London, Detective Inspector Day's first assignment is to investigate the murder of a fellow Murder Squad detective; joining Day on the hunt is coroner and forensic pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley.
10) Stealing shadows
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Psychic Cassie Neill races to unmask a killer after her attempts to warn the sheriff that a brutal murderer is lurking in the small North Carolina town of Ryan's Bluff lead to her becoming a prime suspect when the first body is found exactly where and how she had predicted.
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From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's firsthand observations...
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Kendall Stark, a detective with the sheriff's department in Kitsap County, Washington, is helping plan her fifteenth class reunion when the husband of fellow student Tori O'Neal Connelly is murdered in his home, and Tori's twin sister Lainie, also on the planning committee, rushes off to help, not realizing she is walking into a trap.
13) American rust
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Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a lush landscape as deceptively promising as the edifices of the abandoned steel mills, "American Rust" is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to...
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"A teenage runaway?s body is found in the basement of a rancid tenement building in the desolate, dangerous North Philly district dubbed the Badlands. The inexplicable cause of death: drowning. Months later, this dormant homicide case stirs back to life. A confession to the bizarre murder sends Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano rushing to make an arrest. But what they find will chill these hardened veterans to the bone....
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Alex Cross novels volume 25
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law--until he's charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood. Now Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. It was self-defense; will a jury see it that way? As Cross fights for his professional life and his freedom, his former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome, titillating video tied to the mysterious...
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Amicus
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"Explains how crime scene investigation experts use evidence and science to identify murder victims, determine when and how they were killed, and track down who committed the murder. Includes case files and case studies of real murder cases"--Provided by publisher.
18) Love you more
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Near the start of Thriller Award–winner Gardner's gripping fifth novel featuring Boston PD Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after Live to Tell), D.D.'s former partner and one-time lover, Det. Bobby Dodge, of the Massachusetts State Police, asks her to look into what appears to be a clear-cut homicide case. The evidence suggests that Tessa Leoni, a state trooper colleague of Bobby's, shot and killed her abusive husband, Brian Darby, who may have kidnapped...
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Women's Murder Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.
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