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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
2) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all times, ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.
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English
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In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna...
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
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Annie
A loving mother and wife, Annie O'Neill was the heart of the small community of Kiss River. But her generous nature hid a darker side that remained secret for years after her tragic death.
Lacey
When Lacey O'Neill finally learns the shattering truth about the mother she's spent a decade emulating, the foundation of her life begins to crumble. Then her close childhood friend dies, leaving her teenage...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After the murder of Alice Hayward and the suicide of her husband, Reverend Stephen Drew flees the pulpit and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about angels. Heather, identifying deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, mentors the young girl but soon suspects that Alice's husband may not have killed himself--and that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.
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Series
Gideon Crew volume 1
Language
English
Description
"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon with his crime--and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
9) Missing mom
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
434 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) The prey
Author
Series
Predator trilogy (Allison Brennan) volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
11) Taking Eve
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child's disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son, a case that is complicated by Jim's twisted agenda.
13) Fred & Edie
Author
Publisher
Welcome Rain Publishers
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Edition
1st Welcome Rain ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
14) In the forest
Author
Language
English
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Description
O'Brien takes her reader into the mind of Michen O'Kane, a murder who terrorizes the countryside of western Ireland, and traces his transformation from a neglected child to a twisted killer. In the Forest is based on a true story of local horror, and O'Brien provides fragments of O'Kane's story while leaving her reader to try and make sense of his psyche.
15) Shade: a novel
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nina Hardy, murdered by her childhood friend, George, watches and retells the events of her life and afterlife, as her half-brother retraces their childhood together, revealing the crime against Nina in all its full and heartbreaking meaning.
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English
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Fourteen years after the wife of the renowned painter Amyas Crale was sent to the gallows for poisoning her husband, their daughter Lucy returns from Canada. Lucy carries with her a letter that suggests that her mother might have been innocent. Poirot agrees to dig up the past, but he warns Lucy that she may not like what he finds.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Haley Fordham, witnessed the murder of her brutally slashed and mutilated mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
Author
Series
Dido Kent mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
300 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visiting Bellfield Hall to comfort her niece, who has been seemingly abandoned by her wealthy fiancé, Miss Dido Kent investigates the possibly related death of a young woman, a situation that is complicated by surprising secrets.
20) The unquiet dead
Author
Series
Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Esa Khattak is in the midst of his evening prayers when he receives a phone call asking that he and ... Detective Rachel Getty look into the death of a local man who has fallen off a cliff. At first Christopher Drayton's death--which looks like an accident--doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, especially not from Khattak and Rachel's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But it soon comes to light that Drayton might have...
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