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Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.
63) Magic hour
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Language
English
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While investigating the murder of a rich filmmaker, Brady discovers that his prime suspect is a woman he and the victim shared.
64) Second wind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart finds his life in danger after the plane he is riding in on an adventure into the eye of a Class V hurricane is destroyed, stranding him on Trox Island where he discovers a notebook that contains very sensitive information.
65) Lost horizon
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Series
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English
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Hilton's bestselling classic about a man who stumbles on the world's last great hope for peace: Shangri-La Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again-this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane. When his plane crashes high in the Himalaya mountains, Conway and the other...
67) The ice house
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English
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Inspectors Walsh and McLouglin investigate the discovery of a corpse in an ice-house on an isolated estate and the three women who call it home.
69) The secret place
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Language
English
Description
"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...
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English
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In his more than three dozen books, Elmore Leonard has captured the imagination of millions of readers as few writers can. A literary icon praised by The New York Times Book Review as "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever," he has influenced many contemporary writers and is known for both the quality and the accessibility of his writing. In this collection of new and recently published short fiction, Leonard demonstrates the superb...
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English
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Sinners and Shrouds, first published in 1955 as an Inner Sanctum Mystery, is a fast-paced, action-packed novel by master crime-writer Jonathan Latimer (1906-1983). The story centers on newspaper reporter Sam Clay, who becomes his own story when he wakes up next to a corpse and with no memory of the woman's identity and of what took place the previous night. Clay knows that he is being framed for the murder but has to prove this-both to himself and...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls--a "fiendishly plotted thriller" (Publishers Weekly)--a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to...
77) The ghost car
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Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
79) Dying to sing
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Charlie Plato, the red-headed manager of Chaps country- western bar, becomes involved in a mystery murder and almost succumbs to the charms of her business partner and former television star Jake Hunter, when an earthquake shakes loose a skeleton buried in the flower bed at Chaps.
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