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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Jasper Fforde's time-traveling, book-jumping detective Thursday Next is a hit with fans and critics. Each book in this humorous and intelligent series has hit nationwide best-seller lists. Here, Thursday must save the world from Yorrick Kaine and the evil Goliath Corporation while trying to recover her lost husband from the timestream and raise their son, Friday. Emily Gray's spirited narration perfectly captures the zany humor and charm of this delightful...
2) Bad Terms
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Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Dark deeds in the Peak District refuse to stay buried…
When a skeleton is unearthed at a building site in the village of Meresham, the police immediately link the case to a notorious missing persons investigation. Jayne Arnold was sixteen when she disappeared in the long, hot summer of 1976, and has not been seen since.
Soon after the bones are found, a tragic accident occurs at an elite boarding school nearby. The young victim fell to her...
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"GRIPPING! Wow...kept me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end, so many twists and turns, that kept me thinking, just one more chapter! A rollercoaster ride!" -- Amazon reviewer, five stars A British police detective's latest case gets curiouser and curiouser in this hard-hitting novel by the author of The Devil's Line. DSI Billie Wilde's romantic relationship is intense -- but it's nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Vacationing at the seaside while recuperating from injuries, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers arranges to have herself assigned to an investigation into the murder of a Pakistani immigrant that has exploded into full scale racial incident.
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English
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Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, still grieving the murder of his wife, agrees to help London Metropolitan Police superintendent Isabelle Ardery investigate the killing of a young woman who recently moved from Hampshire, and uncovers a number of suspects and motives, while also developing an attachment to Isabelle.
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, travels to London in the summer of 1450 to purchase funeral vestments for the Duke of Suffolk, and becomes caught up in a web of intrigue and murder centered around the widowed seamstress Anne Blakhall and her lover, Daved Weir, a merchant hiding the fact that he is a Jew.
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Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Henry Tibbett helps the bewildered owner of a country pub when one of her regulars is poisoned"--
Mr. and Mrs. Tibbetts pop into a pub for lunch but get served a murder case in this novel with "all the proper ingredients for a cozy whodunit" ( The New York Times ). What could be more delightful than a long-forgotten relative who dies and leaves you a tidbit in his will? How about if that tidbit is in fact a charming country pub, and that pub is...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Mystery readers and fans of detective fiction and the police procedural are in for a real treat with these twelve interlaced stoires featuring Lady Molly, head of the Female Department at Scotland Yard in and around 1910. Lady Molly is an ace sleuth and the Police Chief's secret weapon when faced with perplexing and unsolvable cases.
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A tense psychological thriller ideal for fans of Faye Kellerman and Louise Penny. Things are not going well for prestigious lawyer and professional mistress Sarah Fortune. Her life is a mess, but it would be so much simpler to try and fix somebody else's. So when she meets the vulnerable and troubled Jessica Hurley, Sarah feels she must save her. Jessica longs to return to the small village where she grew up, but she has burned all her bridges. Instead,...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An American heiress, an English aristocrat, a nursery maid's death, a tangle of deception and adultery-the first book in a thrilling new Edwardian murder mystery series American Ursula Grandison accompanies Belle Seldon to visit her sister, Helen, Countess of Mountstanton, commissioned by their father, multi-millionaire Chauncey Seldon, to discover what is wrong with Helen's marriage and what has happened to her dowry. At decaying stately Mountstanton...
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English
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London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
16) Farewell Blues
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An addictive read from one of my very favorite writers."-DEBORAH CROMBIE, New York Times bestselling author
The Reverend Callie Anson should have learned her lesson by now: revisiting the past is seldom a good idea. But she succumbs to peer pressure and attends a reunion at her theological college in Cambridge, where she is forced to confront painful memories-and the presence of her clueless ex, Adam.
Margaret Phillips, the Principal of the college,...
17) In a dark house
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English
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An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator -- a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.
And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old Harriet's awful fears...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother's suspicious death. A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London's art world to learn the truth behind her brother's murder ... Edwin is dead. That's what Inspector Matthew Hallam of Scotland Yard tells Annabel Rowe when she discovers him...
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English
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From a former Fleet Street journalist and an accomplished British suspense writer comes a complex puzzle wrapped in a plot that could almost be ripped from contemporary U.S. headlines. Imagine what would happen if a vanished woman's body lay underwater for almost three decades, the police unable to charge her guilty-as-sin husband until her remains are finally discovered by pure chance...
27 years ago, Clara Marshall and her two young children vanished...
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