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1) The stranger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
Author
Language
English
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller agrees to work for the prosecution and teams up with Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch to convict Jason Jessup, who spent twenty-four years in jail for the murders of children and was recently exonerated by new DNA evidence and Mickey believes will kill again.
Author
Series
King Oliver novel volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.
When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe with an assignment, he's got no choice but to accept, even if the case is a tough one to stomach. White nationalist Alfred Xavier Quiller has been accused of...
Author
Series
Quirke novel volume 8
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
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Description
In 1950s Dublin, renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI John Strafford investigate the murder of a young history scholar with the help of her journalist sister, and as they close in on the killer, their personal lives put the case, and the lives of everyone involved, in danger.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
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