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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a kidnapper who is murdering the children of wealthy New York families, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker discover that the killer has hatched an elaborate plot to decimate the entire city.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbecue to celebrate her son's engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride's father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker and one of Chicago's celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. Meanwhile, mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in public relations and believes herself...
Author
Series
Raisin volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
233p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When three killings, nearly identical to his father's, take place across the globe, Matt Daley discovers that the evidence points to a woman the police call the Angel of Death who targets elderly millionaires and is always one step ahead of the law.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Bath, Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lady Lucy Kurland discover that the English spa town is not beneficial to everyone's health when an elderly businessman befriended by Robert is found drowned in the baths.
Author
Series
New money volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Lorraine Zago Rosenthal's sequel to New Money, Savannah Morgan delves into the mystery of her late media mogul father's death and uncovers more than she ever expected.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to...
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accused of murdering his former state senator father, Beau Reese must place his trust in private investigator Cassidy Jones, who believes in his innocence and sets out to find the truth, while trying to deny her attraction to him.
10) Beyond reason
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After taking over Drake Trucking following her grandfather's death, Carly Drake is forced to turn to multimillionaire rival company owner Lincoln Cain for help when her top driver is murdered and she receives a death threat.
11) The pickup
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
391p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julie is from an affluent white family and is always searching for new ideas and adventures. When her car breaks down in a South African city she is immediately drawn to Abdu the mechanic who comes to her aid. He has left his home and family in the north to find work in the new South Africa. As their relationship develops into passionate love, they must both confront the prejudices of their past and the uncertainties of the future. The Pickup is the...
12) The husband list
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Pressured by her mother to marry a proper gentleman, Caroline Maxwell reluctantly considers Lord Bremerton while harboring a secret longing for adventure and passion with her brother's world-traveling friend, Jack, whose new money and lack of title render him an unsuitable candidate in her mother's eyes.
Author
Series
Crazy rich Asians volume 1
Language
English
Description
Overview: Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives...
Series
Christmas novellas volume 11
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
4 compact discs (4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Claudine Burroughs meets poet Dai Tregarron at a Yuletide gala, but an hour later he is enmeshed in a nightmare, accused of killing a young streetwalker who had been smuggled into the party.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of her mother's murder, Dr. Kate English reaches out to her estranged best friend Blaire Barrington, a mystery author, who decides to investigate when Kate starts getting anonymous texts from the killer.
Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Historical drama and romance set in Venice and the English countryside of the 1800s. Two lives become intertwined despite the burdens of their past. A place that once seemed only a dreaded detour becomes a sacred venue for the unveiling of God's Providence"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
In death volume 31
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of murders including those of a limousine driver and a high-priced escort, an infuriated NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas enters her husband, Roarke's, rarified circle to prevent the imminent killing of another victim.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Exiled to an equestrian boarding school in the South at the height of the Great Depression for her role in a family tragedy, strong-willed teen Thea Atwell grapples with painful memories while acclimating to the school's strict environment.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
From the award–winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us comes an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune-and its bearings.
Labor Day 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar-married with three children-are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short when...