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Mystery bookshop volume 1
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When a shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, bookshop owner Samantha Washington investigates with the help of her feisty grandmother and an enthusiastic ensemble of colorful retirees.
Samantha Washington is opening a mystery bookstore in North Harbor, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan. She's also penning a cozy mystery set in England. When a shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, the police suspect Samantha. Aided by her feisty...
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As a medical examiner, Samantha Owen's job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology. But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from her life. She's pulled into a suffocating grief until she receives a peculiar call from Washington D.C. On the end of the line is an old boyfriend's mother, asking Sam to do a second autopsy on her son. Eddie Donovan is officially the victim of a vicious carjacking,...
23) Wanted!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Alice suspects something is wrong when she gets a call from her father insisting she drive his precious Corvette to meet him, even though she does not have a driver's license, but she realizes someone has set her up when she learns that her father is dead and she is the number one suspect.
25) Dangerous skies
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Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an African-American, in a murder.
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 15
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Reporter Lucy Stone, of Tinker's Cove, Maine, uncovers some icky revelations about Bart Hume, a philandering cardiac surgeon, as she investigates a shooting murder connected to a suspicious accident fatality and the disappearance of a teen youth counselor. Along the way, Lucy and Sara, Lucy's high school freshman daughter, are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the killer.
28) The reader
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--Provided by publisher.
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"Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways. But is it the work of a human killer . . . or something far darker? She and her younger sister live by a strict set of rules designed to keep them safe--which is why it's such a shock when Hope is taken. Desperate to get her back, Abby tells the police everything she knows, but they...
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Envisioned as a luxurious home-away from-home for Very Important People, The Home Group is a collection of celebrity members clubs dotted across the globe where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point. As tempers fray and behaviour worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up,...
31) Lark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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When sixteen-year-old Lark is murdered, she, her childhood best friend Eva, and a girl she used to babysit, Nyetta, find themselves facing hard truths about their lives and seeking a way to move on.
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"In 2019, Maggie visits a remote island in Scotland's Outer Hebrides to prove that a man was murdered there twenty-five years before. Maggie's motives are as dark as they are surprising. But she isn't prepared for the dangerous secrets and lies that are hiding at the heart of Kilmeray's isolated community. Or within herself. Robert Reid moved his family to Kilmeray in the early 1990s, driven both by hope and a terrible secret that he kept hidden for...
33) Death in the air
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Boy Sherlock Holmes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Young Sherlock Holmes, committed to solving crimes after his mother's death, is visiting his father at work when an aerialist, practicing a high-trapeze performance at the legendary Crystal Palace, falls to the ground, landing at Holmes' feet, and uttering two cryptic last words that send the boy on a dangerous search for answers.
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"Sarah Winston's garage sale business has a new client: the daughter of a couple who recently died in a tragic accident while away on a trip to Africa. Their house is full of exotic items from around the world that need to be sold off. When Sarah learns that the deceased were retired CIA agents, the job becomes more intriguing - but when an intruder breaks in and a hidden camera is found, it also becomes more dangerous. And Sarah has enough on her...
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"Tucked into the mountains of North Wales, the village of Cwm Coed is bordered by a shimmering lake on one side and an army of pine trees on the other. But the tranquility is shattered when homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd returns to develop a luxury resort on the shore opposite the village. Old resentments begin to rise to the surface, and new tensions emerge between the locals and the outsiders. Still, when the resort throws open its doors for a New...
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
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A partner in an all-female Philadelphia law firm, Bennie Rosato ventures to the local prison to consult with a possible client, Alice Connolly, accused of cold-blooded murder, and discovers her double, who claims to be her long-lost twin sister.
37) Left for dead
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After the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate and an encounter with Sister Anselm, who is acting as a patient advocate for a woman who was savagely attacked by a drug cartel, Ali Reynolds is determined to seek justice in both cases.
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"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep...
39) Righteous
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IQ novels volume 2
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"Isaiah Quintabe has built a proper life for himself: respected in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull. But the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to escape. IQ has a lasting, troubling love for Sarita, his late brother's girlfriend. When Sarita's younger sister, an erratic DJ and gambling addict,...
40) Dear daughter
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Former "It Girl" Janie Jenkins, after being released on a technicality from prison for the murder of her mother, tries to unravel the secrets surrounding her mother's death.
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