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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge killings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between...
2) The broker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.
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Nicholas Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career-ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker, Herb Kovak, is murdered right in front of him and 60,000 other potential witnesses. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question how well he knew his friend. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity or something more sinister?
4) Mystic river
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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The New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their...
5) Live to tell
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Veteran police detective D. D. Warren, investigating the apparent murder-suicide of four members of a Boston family, meets Danielle Burton, a dedicated nurse whose past haunts her, and Victoria Oliver, a mother who will do anything for her troubled son, and the lives of the three women unexpectedly become connected.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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.
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WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway.
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State police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have killed her husband in self-defense, but detective D.D. Warren soon realizes it is far from an open-and-shut case when it is discovered that Tessa's six-year-old daughter is missing and the clues lead to a shocking conspiracy that could destroy them all.
10) Miss Marple
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1987-1992
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English
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Jane Marple is vacationing in Barbados when a string of dead bodies forces the detective back to work. An American movie star comes to Miss Marple's village to shoot a picture. Murders among the cast and crew bring Miss Marple into a web of jealousies. A young couple buys a house. Soon after they move in, they are haunted by visions of a body. Jane Marple comes and unravels the past of the house to stop any more murders. A friend of Miss Marple's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Seven-year-old Ellie's testimony led to the conviction of the man she was firmly convinced was the murderer of her sister. After twenty-two years in prison he returns, still denying his guilt, to their home town intent on proving his innocence and Ellie follows, equally intent on proving his guilt.
13) Frequency
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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When a mysterious channel to the past is opened allowing John Sullivan to communicate with his deceased father, a string of unsolved murders occur as a result; now father and son must work together to stop the crime that could hurt both of them.
14) Ten big ones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her mother's convinced she'll end up dead . . . or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum, and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thinks it sounds good to put it that way. . . .). It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place...
15) The scarecrow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
18) F/X
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2000, c1986
Language
English
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Rollie Tyler, the best special effects artist in Hollywood, is hired by the Justice Department to stage the assassination of an important underworld witness. After the illusion is pulled off successfully, Rollie himself is pinned for the murder. Double-crossed and now hunted by those who hired him, the New York City Police Department, and the mob, Rollie learns that he can trust no one, and that the only thing that can save his life is his unequaled...
19) Come home
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Suburban mom and pediatrician Jill Farrow has finally gotten her and her thirteen-year-old daughter's lives back on track after her divorce, but when her ex-stepdaughter shows up at her door delivering the news that Jill's ex-husband is dead and it might have been murder, Jill agrees to help look into the strange circumstances.
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New York cop turned lawyer Stone Barrington travels to Key West, Florida, to track down Evan Keating, a young man whose signature is needed on documents allowing his father to sell the family business. Meanwhile, a beautiful Swedish doctor, Annika Swenson, learns the hard way that being involved with Stone is the most dangerous job in America.
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