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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.
2) Dark places
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
6) Graceling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
7) Spellwright
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-five-year-old apprentice Nicodemus Weal, struggling with his inability to control spells which holds him back from moving forward as a spellwright, is named a suspect in the murder of powerful wizard and races against time to clear his name and uncover who is responsible for the crime as well as the destruction of the city around him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonathan Lyons, after discovering a letter that may have been written by Jesus, is found shot dead with his wife holding the murder weapon, and it is up to their daughter to clear her mother's name and prove that her father's death had something to do with the letter.
9) After
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.
10) You belong to me
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Radio talk show host Dr. Susan Chandler is marked for murder when she decides to explore the phenomenon of lonely, insecure women who are targeted by killers, and becomes intrigued with the disappearance of Regina Clausen--a mystery someone does not want solved.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years after her sister, Lila, is murdered, Ellie Enderlin has a chance encounter with the man accused of the crime, who gives Ellie her sister's notebook, filled with mathematical equations and clues that will lead Ellie on a journey into the past that offers startling revelations about her sister's life.
12) 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.
13) 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the State Police in New Mexico, is assigned to investigate the murder of a police officer in nearby Mountainair, but his efforts are hindered by the fact that his best witness is a schizophrenic.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Real-estate agent Lacey Farrell, accidently walked in on a murder. The dying victim entrusts her with a journal that contains information so damaging that even the government's witness protection program can not keep Lacey safe.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unconventional FBI agent Kit Harrison, determined to pursue a conspiracy of illegal human genetic experimentation, travels to Colorado where he and veterinarian Frannie O'Neill work together to save a group of children who can fly.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old detective Flavia de Luce sorts through clues, trying to solve various mysteries involving a missing child, a fortune-teller, and a dead body found in Flavia's own backyard.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On his birthday, detective Alex Cross is informed that his niece, Caroline, has been brutally murdered and Cross' investigation leads him to a fantasy-driven scene in Washington, D.C., where he realizes he is tracking a serial killer, but danger mounts when Cross connects the deaths to some very important people.
20) 12th of never
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
San Francisco homicide detective, Lindsay Boxer, is forced to return to work after just a week with her newborn baby when the chief of police calls her desperate for help with some baffling and terrifying murders.
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