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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Nora Chancel, haunted by nightmares of her stint in Vietnam as a nurse and by the murders of four neighborhood women, is accused of kidnapping and torturing her husband's mistress; but while at the police station for questioning, she is taken hostage by charming madman Dick Dart, a local attorney who is responsible for the killings.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Investigative reporter Fran Simmons puts her own life in danger when she sets out to discover who really killed Dr. Gary Lasch, a murder for which his wife, Molly, has spent years in jail, even though she has no memory of the night of his death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank, Nathan, Jeremy, and Anabel deal with the realities of middle school basketball, including family pressure, a series of coaches with very different personalities and agendas, and what it means to be a team--and a friend.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Captain Carmine Delmonico, already dealing with trouble within the ranks of his police force in the Holloman suburb of Carew, Connecticut, in 1968, must somehow unite his team to find a rapist whose crimes have escalated to murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Miller Sanford has tried to prove himself mature enough to be on his own at the annual fair, but instead he is handed responsibility for his six-year-old sister and her friends, leading to a series of mysteries and mishaps.
8) Last kiss
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nell Kilvert, a year after the death of her eighteen-year-old boyfriend Charlie Rosslare, asks Gavin Dawson -- Sheridan Rosslare's former lover, and Charlie's mother -- for help to uncover the truth behind Charlie's mysterious murder.
9) Mausoleum
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angered when Newbury, Connecticut's three-hundred-year-old cemetery is invaded by an eyesore of a mausoleum belonging to newcomer Brian Groses, Ben Abbott launches a personal investigation when Brian's body is found in his monument, the victim of a shooting.
10) Reservation Road
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Two ordinary families face an extraordinary crisis when ten-year-old Josh Learner is killed by hit-and-run driver Dwight Arno, a small-town lawyer who is also the father of a ten-year-old boy.
11) On, off
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Carmine Delmonico sets out on a frantic game of cat-and-mouse as he searches for a serial killer that is terrorizing a university town in Connecticut.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this quirky debut novel from author Matthew Dicks, career criminal Martin uses his OCD to pilfer items from his victims' houses without being discovered. It helps that he only takes things the homeowner would never notice are missing-like a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of maple syrup. Martin has spent so much time snooping through homes he feels like he knows the owners, but when he starts meddling in their personal lives, his precise world...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.
17) White shark
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Simon Chase, a young marine biologist, studies and tracks sharks and other marine species, the effect of pollution and other environmental threats. He becomes concerned when bodies begin to wash ashore.
18) Skeleton key
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian comes to a quiet Connecticut town to help Bennis Hannaford solve the mystery of her multibillionaire friend's murder, and corruption in the town in which she lived.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Children's book author Lyon Wentworth fights to protect a Vietnam veteran accused of a grisly crime in this chilling psychological thriller. They find her by the river, naked, cold-and dead. Police chief Rocco Herbert recognizes her as the checkout girl at the Murphysville supermarket, an ordinary citizen of the easygoing Connecticut suburb whose death was anything but easy. In one hand, she clutches a First Cavalry Division shoulder patch, the kind...
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