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Three strangers who are trying to find their ways in the wake of loss become entwined in fraudulent schemes, which have a resounding impact on them all. One is a college student who hops a bus to break loose from his abstract and tenuous existence. Another is a man searching for his troubled twin brother, who has been missing for ten years. And another is a naïve, young woman who sneaks away from her small town with her former history teacher. Their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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Thirty-year-old interior designer Alexandra Moreland, struggling to deal with the disappearance of her son, fights to uncover who is behind a plot to destroy her sanity and life after she is indicted for identity theft and suspected of murder.
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Everyman's library volume 122
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English police Sergeant Cuff tries to locate a fabulous diamond that might have been stolen by a group of Hindus who regard it as a sacred stone.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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c2009
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English
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Sheriff Walt Fleming, responsible for security at the town's annual wine auction, tries to prepare for all contingencies, but he finds himself pulled in a dozen different directions when trouble strikes and it becomes apparent that the thieves have more than wine on their minds.
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Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road. Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he's Jewish; he's a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he's just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library's been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the...
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Sunny Alvarez and Mac Reilly always seem to find trouble in the south of France. This time, all the trouble began in Monte Carlo.
Sunny's relationship with Mac is in jeopardy and Monte Carlo beckons. Soon Sunny is pulled into a web of intrigue involving a series of robberies of high-end jewelry stores. Then there's her wanna-be-new-friend, who turns out to be a sociopath, involved in the sale of sex and in blackmail. Plus there's Sunny's old friend,...
12) Shadow zone
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St. Martin's Press
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2010
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English
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Submersible designer Hannah Bryson makes a shocking discovery while mapping the ancient underwater city of Marinth that could have devastating consequences for the modern-day world, and when her key artifact is stolen on the way to the research laboratory, she is thrust into a life-threatening battle of wits against a terrifying enemy.
13) Liars all
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Brodie Farrell steps away from her business to go off in search of a cure for her son's brain tumor; meanwhile, Daniel Hood, who was left in charge, tries to find the stolen necklace that will prove his client's son's innocence, and Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon suspects Terry Walsh, his old adversary, may have a hand in the case.
15) Framed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
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Chet and his human companion Bernie are called in to investigate a series of threats made against a pampered show dog named Princess, and when Princess and her owner are abducted and Bernie's girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears, the detective team realizes the show dog world is more dangerous than they ever imagined.
17) Identity theft
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Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Frank and Joe find themselves in the middle of a stolen identity case when Joy Gallagher claims another girl is now living her life, with her parents, and in her body.
18) The road to ruin
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This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder, as...
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