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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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R is for Ricochet is another thrilling installment in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone series.
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a...
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton’s T IS FOR TRESPASS is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the perspective of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing listeners to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to...
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
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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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.
10) Vanishing point
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
11) X
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Series
Language
English
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"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, an international investigation company involved in solving important cases around the world. When he learns that his best friend's wife and Jack's former lover has been killed, Jack devotes all of the company's resources to tracking down her killer, while navigating a workplace romance that threatens to disrupt his plans.
15) Pisces rising
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Psychic detective Elizabeth Chase, reluctant to return to detective work after seeing her fiance gunned down, is drawn back into action when an old friend calls her to investigate the scalping of a Native American casino owner.
16) Private
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, an international investigation company involved in solving important cases around the world. When he learns that his best friend's wife and Jack's former lover has been killed, Jack devotes all of his company's resources to tracking down her killer, while navigating a workplace romance that threatens to disrupt his plans.
17) "N" is for noose
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to track down Guy Malek, a man who walked away from his family eighteen years earlier and now stands to inherit part of his deceased father's forty-million dollar estate, but unfortunately, not everyone is eager to welcome home the prodigal son.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
20) City of secrets
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Miranda Corbie, a private detective in 1940, investigates a brutal animal trainer, an Irish cop, and an American fascist group in her efforts to find out who killed Pandora Blake, a peep show worker on San Francisco's Treasure Island found stabbed to death with an anti-Semitic slur scrawled across her body.
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