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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old is shattered by two drunken and remorseless men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime, until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
5) Black notice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When a dead body is found in the cargo hold of a ship arriving from Belgium, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called in to investigate and she soon finds herself trying to outwit a brutal killer who calls himself The Werewolf.
6) Deep waters
Author
Language
English
Description
Charity Truitt facing crises of career and heart falls in love with her opponent from a failed corporate merger only to discover that they are caught up in a series of murders and must catch the killer before they become the next to die.
7) Dark lady
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
When two prominent men are found dead within days of each other, it is up to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz to determine if their deaths were coincidence or not.
10) Hit list
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A New York hit man named Keller becomes the target of a hit himself, a dilemma he is not accustomed to.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Joe Christmas, who appears to be white but is part African-American, kills Joanna Burden, a spinster with whom he has had an affair. He is captured, castrated, and killed by outraged townspeople.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The mystery of Norm Lewis's disappearance is thought to be solved with the spring thaw when his Cessna is discovered half submerged in the waters of an isolated Alaskan lake, but state trooper Alex Jensen is handed another riddle when the only body found in the plane is an unidentified woman, apparently dead of bullet wounds, and Norm is nowhere to be found.
14) Big trouble
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Chaos reigns when a couple of hit men decide to make their strike against embezzler Arthur Herk at the same time that teenagers Matt and Andrew set out to "shoot" Arthur's stepdaughter Jenny in a high school squirtgun game called Killer.
16) Hearts and bones
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Hannah Trevor, a midwife in Rufford, Maine, in 1786, discovers the raped and strangled body of a neighbor when she goes to take coal to the woman, and is horrified to learn that her own one-time lover, Daniel Josselyn, has been named as one of the victim's attackers.
19) Rough justice
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Marta Richter, a lawyer with the all-female firm Rosato & Associates, is hours away from winning an acquittal for millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, when she learns he has lied to her and is really guilty of murder, but her efforts to find evidence to convict her own client are thwarted by her boss Benedetta Rosato, who has a better plan for dealing with their crooked client.
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