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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
309p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a fifty-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayor's long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make...
5) Wild things
Author
Series
Annie's Attic mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join Annie and her friends on this latest adventure sure to lead them all to the seamier, wild side of Stony Point.
6) Obsidian
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 32
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew comes to the aid of the owners of a local dancing school when they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives.
8) All I want
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Berkley mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pilot-for-hire Zoe Stone is happy to call Sunshine, Idaho, her home base. But her quiet life is thrown for a loop when her brother's friend Parker comes to stay with her for a week. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife special agent is a handsome flirt with a gift for getting under her skin. And the situation only escalates when Parker hires her to fly him around the area while he collects evidence on a suspected smuggler. Now she has to live and work with...
10) Bare bones
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Her plans for a romantic vacation interrupted by the discoveries of two murdered bodies and a small plane crash, Tempe Brennan traces leads to an isolated North Carolina farm.
11) Runner
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
p216 PB
Language
English
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-yearj-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
12) Hold fast
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Concocting potions and cures for her 1950s mountain-dwelling community, a folk healer with a dark past helps her bootleg-whiskey-runner grandson outmaneuver rivals, federal agents, snake charmers, and the mystery of his mother's long confinement in a mental hospital.
14) Wrecker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it just destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help--in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them.
Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these man all over Key West--at...
15) Black diamond
Author
Series
Bruno chief of police volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
298, 9 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered.
16) Over the line
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gabriella turns to her ex-fianc�e, homicide detective Eli Cavazos, when her brother gets mixed up with a dangerous crime ring, but while searching for her brother, Gabby's past threatens to overwhelm her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem--again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behaviour and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict brother—a man who had served twenty-five years in prison for armed robbery and attempted murder—has just been released. Things take a shocking turn when Phyllis is suddenly arrested at work for allegedly being an accessory to the murder of Hector Valdez, a...
Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 9
Language
English
Description
Traveling to the Canadian border where disenchanted former soldiers have built a smuggling operation, Charlie Parker forges an uneasy alliance with a killer known as The Collector when the smugglers capture the attention of two formidable adversaries.