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2) Jackpot
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Series
Language
English
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"When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue . . . and that the biggest players behind the scenes may be far closer to home than anticipated. With international deals and...
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Series
Aloysius Archer volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Aloysius Archer travels to 1950s California to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent but immediately finds himself involved in a scandal"--
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, criminal or all three.
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English
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Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced. The mortally wounded woman is Larinda Mars, a self-described "social information reporter," or as most people would call it, a professional gossip.
6) Liar's key
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist, and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan into a complex web of blackmail, greed, and murder.
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339 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
How would you react in a life-or-death situation?
It’s a question everyone asks themselves, but few have to face in real life. English teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent on harming others, but when Mark LeDrew shows up at Richard’s school with a bomb strapped to his chest, Richard immediately jumps into action. Thanks to some quick thinking, he averts a major tragedy and is...
10) Guilty
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English
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When Kat White was fifteen, she and some friends held up a store, and a security guard was killed. No one was caught. Sixteen years later, Kat (now Kate) is with the Philadelphia DA, and a single mom. She discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, a friend from that terrible night. When Mario is found dead in her apartment, and another man who knows the secret gets involved, Kate finds that her life and her son's are in danger.
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English
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
12) A gambling man
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aloysius Archer travels to 1950s California to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent but immediately finds himself involved in a scandal"--
13) Alone
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
14) The good girl
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Language
English
Description
The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
16) Cold calls
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While on suspension, Shelly, Eric, and Fatima, who have nothing else in common, try to identify and stop the person who blackmailed each of them by phone to perform very specific acts of bullying at their high schools.
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Series
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When an email falls into the wrong hands, sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he's been emailing compromised.
18) Black widow
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English
Description
Entreated by his goddaughter to help pay off a blackmailer who videotaped her bachelorette party and then threatened to expose her debauchery, Doc Ford reluctantly agrees and then finds himself in danger when the extortionist releases the tape anyway.
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Series
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English
Description
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate -- and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison....
20) Black widow
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
560 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English