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Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Private detective Kinsey Milhone finds her past coming back to haunt her when an encounter with her first husband and a mysterious undelivered letter discovered among her childhood memorabilia reveal new information about an old unsolved murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Left alone in chilly Lochdubh, Scotland, while his family spends Christmas in Florida, Constable Hamish Macbeth copes with a missing cat and the disappearance of a town's holiday tree and decorations, while searching for a way to make a little girl's Christmas dreams come true
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Detective Kinsey Millhone is nagged by the spirit of the victim of an unsolved murder
5) High five
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum struggles to make ends meet while coping with a missing Uncle Fred, homicidal rapist and stalker Benito Ramirez, amorous vice cop Joe Morelli, and would-be lover Ranger.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game,...
Author
Series
Pigeon volume 6
Language
English
Description
Forced to cope with her claustrophobia and to use all the skills she has developed above ground, park ranger Anna Pigeon enters the dangerous Lechuguilla Cavern in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern National Park to attempt a rescue and learns who she can trust and who can be saved
9) The breaker
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The Breaker is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Twelve hours after Kate Sumner's brutally murdered body washes up on the beach, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is found wandering the streets alone. At first, the prime suspect is a young actor, obsessed with pornography. But now the local English constable has doubts about the victim's husband. Was he really out of town when she was killed? And why does the child scream every time her...
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
Lori Shepard copes with twins while trying to find a missing document that should settle the unrest caused by an archaeological dig in the village of Finch in time for the Harvest Festival, while her ghostly Aunt Dimity's notebook reveals buried secrets
11) The long call
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...
Author
Series
Lynley volume 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is...
13) Perish twice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall comes to the aid of three women as she investigates threats against a prominent feminist and assists her best friend and older sister, each of whom is confronting a wrenching personal struggle.
14) Skinwalkers
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee's trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual,...
16) Stone cold
Author
Series
A Joe Pickett novel volume 14
Language
English
Description
Investigating allegations about a hit man who lives a life of wealth and secrecy on a remote Wyoming ranch, troubleshooter Joe Pickett discovers two men at the ranch including a ruthless killer and a disturbing person from his past.
"The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times-bestselling author. Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who...
17) Breaking point
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 13
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiance, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.