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Author
Series
Language
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....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Hilary Cantor, a determined but down-on-her-luck single mother caring for a special needs son, becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
379 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Violet Burton flees to New York City in an effort to earn enough money to pay her debts before returning to Virginia, where a banker who holds the mortage on her house is blackmailing her. When she reconnects with a childhood friend, she wonders if the home she seeks is right there in New York City.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lacy Marie Crocker has settled into a comfortable groove back home in New Orleans, and with Valentine's Day right around the corner, she's busier than ever running a thriving pet boutique, helping her mother organize the upcoming National Pet Pageant, and untangling her complicated love life. But on a delivery errand, Lacy stumbles into yet another murder scene, and the last person to see the victim alive was her own father. It's up to Lacy to clear...
Author
Series
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
October 2015.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"True crime doesn't pay ... taxes. IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway has risked her life to take down drug cartels and other dangerous tax frauds. But going after the mob is one offer she can't refuse"--Page 4 of cover.
27) Seed on the wind
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-161
Publisher
Hardcase Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Hardcase Crime edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide...a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters nevertheless resort to kidnapping, blackmail and possibly even murder"--
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Freya de Moray, a member of the secret order of Wise Women and the daughter of disgraced nobility, finds her plans of revenge against Christopher Renshaw, who destroyed her family, thwarted by an attraction she cannot deny.
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald Spy, has been developing a network of young informants who operate on the streets and also in the halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. His wife Amily is King's Own Herald and finds it useful to be underestimated for there are dark things stirring in the shadows of Haven. Someone has discovered many secrets of the women of the Court and the Collegia and is using those secrets to terrorize and...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling comedienne Ruby Bridge confronts the legacy of her mother's abandonment as a secret from the past of Nora Bridge, now a syndicated columnist known for her moral advice, draws the two women together in a reunion that transforms both their lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cookie McGee finds his trail pard, Rafe Barr, head of THE OUTFIT, near death from a vicious knife attack in a Santa Fe alleyway. The town is a-crawl with soldiers out for their blood, but with Doc at the helm, Ethel the War Wagon slips through. The outlaw duo heads for help in California, but the governor needs THE OUTFIT's help as much as they need his. He's being blackmailed by Talbot Timmons, head of covert Confederate group, Brotherhood of the...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wounded in combat and honorably discharged nine years ago, Jack Daley still suffers nightmares from when he served his country as a sniper, racking up sixteen confirmed kills. Now a struggling author, Jack accepts an offer to write a near-future novel about a serial killer, based on a Hollywood script outline. It's an opportunity to build his writing career, and a future with his girlfriend, Kit Majors. But Jack's other talent is also in demand....
33) Summer Island
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
319p. 25cm.
Language
English
34) Fire with fire
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number...
36) Panther Gap
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award-winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions but who discover dark secrets in their family's past. Siblings Bowman and Summer were raised by their father and two uncles on a remote Colorado ranch. They react differently to his radical teachings and the confusions of adolescence. As young adults, they become estranged but are brought back together in their thirties by the prospect...
37) An honest lie
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls' weekend in Vegas, she's prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn't come back to the hotel room. And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe's phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why. What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe--and...
38) An honest lie
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls' weekend in Vegas, she's prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn't come back to the hotel room. And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe's phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why. What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe--and...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
40) One house over
Author
Series
Neighbors volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...