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1) 7th heaven
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Women's Murder Club volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he's blackmailing them for...
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"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...
4) Play dirty
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After five years in prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to the life he knew before he was caught cheating. Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, lived a charmed life before fate intervened and denied them what they wanted most-a child. The job Griff agrees to do for the Speakmans demands secrecy. An unsolved murder comes back to haunt him in the form of his...
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2018.
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Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley. The house is gloomy and forbidding but the party is warm and hospitable except for the presence of Jacobson, the sinister butler. The other guests are wealthy people draped in jewels; Jim cannot imagine why he belongs in such company. After a weekend of adventure, with attempted robbery and...
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 5
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Soon after he is back on the beat as Tamarack County Sheriff, Cork O'Connor is called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the waters of Mercy Falls. The victim is a Chicago businessman, who was involved in negotiating an unpopular contract between his firm and an Ojibwe Indian casino.
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Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in a fiery plane crash. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive. Among the suspects are a betrayed wife, his bullied children, and State Trooper Liam Campbell's wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With his wife under a judicial microscope, Liam asks his former mentor, Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings P.I. Kate Shugak onto the case.
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2018
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Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious. All six feet three obscenely wealthy, good-looking inches of him. His sixty-year-old father, Stewart, a former state senator no less, has impregnated a teenager. Barely able to contain his anger, Beau is in for another surprise. It appears that Stewart has moved an entirely different woman into the house . . . Beau assumes that stunning Cassidy Jones is his father's mistress. At least she's of age. But those concerns...
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"All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by Investigation Discovery star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit series Homicide Hunter and American Detective have been watched by as many as 3.8 million viewers in 186 countries. In this first novel, the rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have...
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2020.
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"Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. But as gunshots...
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[2021]
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"A haunted house with a real-life corpse land tea maven Theodosia Browning in hot water in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party at a swanky mansion in downtown Charleston for Drucilla Heyward, one of the wealthiest women in town. As the champagne flows and the tea steeps, Drucilla is so pleased with the reception...
12) The color of law
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Lawyer Scott Fenney isn't thrilled when he is appointed to defend Shawanda Jones, a prostitute accused of killing the son of a Texas Senator and presidential candidate, Mark McCall.
13) Dying for mercy
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[2009]
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When death shatters the serenity of the exclusive moneyed enclave of Tuxedo Park, New York, Eliza Blake, cohost of the country's premier morning television show KEY to America, is on the scene. While attending a lavish gala at her friends' newly renovated estate, Pentimento, Eliza's host is found deada grotesque suicide that is the first act in a macabre and intricately conceived plan to expose the sins of the past involving some of the town's...
14) The last to die
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Cherokee Pointe trilogy volume 2
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[2004]
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"Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee, has seen murder before, but nothing like what has claimed the life of Jamie Upton, heir to the Upton fortune. The crime is so vicious, so personal and filled with hatred, the authorities are certain it had to be someone he knew...someone hiding an unimaginable sadistic streak behind a friendly façade. The number one suspect is Jamies former lover Jazzy Talbot. The girl from the wrong side of the tracks has always been...
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Dek Elstrom mysteries volume 5
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2015.
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Men are dying in Chicago. Not ordinary men, but rich men, powerful men, men who control the city. They are being murdered, quietly, skilfully. Dek Elstrom's ex-father-in-law, a major player in everything Chicago, is likely to be one of them. Amanda, Dek's ex-wife, wants him to investigate. Dek doesn't want this case -- but Amanda persists, and Dek finally agrees, because that's what he always does with Amanda. He learns quickly that Amanda's father...
18) The devil stone
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2022.
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In the small Highland village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered in a satanic ritual and their heirloom, 'the devil stone', is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists - case closed? But when the investigating officer disappears after leaving the crime scene, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate from Glasgow in a case that could restore her reputation. Caplan knows she is being punished for a minor...
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[2012]
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It was his first big murder case and one of the bloodiest and most violent crimes LAPD detective Danny McGuire would ever encounter. Andrew Jakes, an elderly multimillionaire art dealer, had been brutally murdered in his Hollywood home, his lifeless body tied to his naked young wife. Raped and beaten, the lovely Angela Jakes had barely survived the attack herself. Gazing into her deep, soulful eyes, Danny swore that he'd find the psychopath behind...
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[2004]
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary People comes a gripping novel of suspense, exploring fragile family dynamics in the aftermath of tragedy... Acclaimed author Judith Guest makes a triumphant return with this poignant and powerful novel that's sure to add luster to her reputation as one of the most thoughtful observers of the human condition. Taking as part of her inspiration a baffling, unsolved true-life crime, Guest achieves...