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1) Trace
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Description
He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But something bigger and darker...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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It’s April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday, and she’s alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. More than two decades ago, a four-year-old girl disappeared, and a recent newspaper story about her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial
...10) Ash & bone
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English
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In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a call from his ex-wife, telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild, unbalanced by the abduction and rape he feels he should have prevented. Meanwhile, in the heart of London, the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly, and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is uneasy about the reasons why, an uneasiness that is...
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English
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Philip Kerr's intricate novels featuring former Berlin homicide detective Bernie Gunther have earned a hallowed place in the hearts of mystery fans. It's 1950, and Bernie has arrived in Argentina seeking asylum after being falsely identified as a Nazi war criminal. There he investigates the murder of a wealthy banker's daughter in a case reminiscent of one he worked in Germany 18 years before.
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English
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Laura Lippman is a top-tier mystery novelist. This thrilling stand-alone mystery reveals the author writing at the top of her game. A tragic school shooting brings to scrutiny the secret troubles of three affluent high school girls, best-friends since the third grade. But as homicide Sgt. Harold Lenhardt's investigation builds momentum, difficult questions arise that must be answered.
14) Bent Road
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
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English
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At first there was no reason to link the killings. The first one, months earlier, seemed totally random: a lump of concrete pushed off an overpass onto a passing car. By contrast, the gruesome bludgeoning death of Amber Marshalson, returning home late from a night out clubbing with friends, was obviously calculated. The killer had been seen waiting for the girl in a nearby wood. But when Chief Inspector Wexford discovers that Amber had been the driver...
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English
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Barbara Taylor Bradford is one of the best-selling authors in the world, having sold more than 60 million copies of her novels-several of which were adapted into television miniseries. She is beloved for her strong female heroines and her romantic, page-turning plots. Seventeen-year-old Katie Byrne and her friends Denise and Carly share fantasies of making it on Broadway. But when Denise is killed and Carly left in a coma after a savage attack, Katie...
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