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81) The genesis code
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
During the course of a murder investigation a high-tech investigator discovers a widespread conspiracy involving child killing, a ruthless geneticist, and a plot to retrieve the remains of deceased theologins.
82) The identity man
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Petty thief John Shannon responds to a mysterious text message and finds a chance at redemption and the opportunity to live a new life, but as he settles into his job, finds love, and starts to be a better man, his past catches up to him and he must choose between the life he gave up and the hope of a bright future.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the State Police in New Mexico, is assigned to investigate the murder of a police officer in nearby Mountainair, but his efforts are hindered by the fact that his best witness is a schizophrenic.
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English
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Ellen McKenzie is on the way to the upscale Harvest Festival Dinner with her fiance, Police Chief Dan Dunham, where the guest list is filled with society's most influential men and women, but when one of the guests disappears, they are pulled into the search and uncover some shocking secrets.
85) Lucifer's tears
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Language
English
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Description
The follow-up to Vaara, Snow Angels finds Vaara dealing with personal demons and banishment to the graveyard shift in Helsinki's homicide unit. Thrust into the investigation of a World War II hero and the murder of a Russian businessman's wife, Vaara is about to find that the past has a deadly reach indeed.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Trooper Liam Campbell, living on a leaky gillnetter in Newenham, is brooding on how to rekindle his relationship with bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard when he is called to the site of a fatal shipboard fire; while Wyanet, on a routine run to a dig near Chinook Air Force Base, discovers a young archaeological worker, gruesomely murdered.
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English
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Biggie Weatherford, the matriarch who just about runs the town of Job's Crossing, Texas, is up to her neck in problems when Firman Birdsong is found murdered under a table in the kitchen of his chicken restaurant and her grandson J.R.'s other grandmother shows up trying to claim custody of the ten-year-old boy.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Kevin Kerney takes a rare weekend off from his job as deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police to explore 6,400 acres of land he unexpectedly inherited from an old family friend, but he finds himself instead directing a multifaceted investigation when the acreage yields two dead bodies as well as an illegally clear-cut swath of woodland.
90) The alibi
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Language
English
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Description
Aspiring district attorney Hammond Cross, having just dumped his lover and rival Steffi Mundell, finds himself falling for a mysterious woman who turns out to be the prime suspect in a sensational murder--a case that could make or break Hammond's career.
91) Alias Grace
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
92) Sister: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bee is the only one unconvinced by the police report that declared her sister's death a suicide and moves into her apartment with the hope of piecing together the clues that will reveal the killer only to discover her sister had a stalker and was having an affair with a married man who got her pregnant.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Hopedale, Florida, deputy sheriff Sara Cross, dealing with her son's leukemia, puts her life in danger to undergo a covert investigation into the shooting death of a motorist by her former partner, Billy Flynn, which results in her crossing paths with dangerous criminals from New Jersey who think Billy might know the whereabouts of some of their missing money.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
When Eliza Blake's co-anchor at Key News, Bill Kendall, is found dead, she is offered the biggest break of her career, but she realizes that his death was no accident when she uncovers a conspiracy that involves politicians, news anchors, and her closest friends.
96) Iron house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Michael, an enforcer for a New York organized crime family who fled the Iron Mountain Home for Boys after taking the blame for the murder of another orphan, falls in love with Elena and wishes he can start a new life and build a family with her, but the past and brother he left behind, as well as the vengeful son of the mob boss for whom he works, threaten his chance at happiness and he must confront them in order to have a future with Elena.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Matt Royal has no clue why someone wants him dead and needs to sort through a mystery that involves a dead lawyer, a tourist left for dead, a biker gang, a reclusive billionaire, and an ancient document, but the Longboat Police--and Jennifer Duncan--complicate matters for Matt.
99) From away
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A winter storm strands Denny in Vermont and the woman he hopes to have a one-night stand with walks out, but later Denny is mistaken for a long-time missing local and decides to play along, only to discover that the woman who had walked out on him has turned up dead and Denny is the chief suspect.
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English
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Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force confront humankind's greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint--an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key--and a secret that has already claimed the lives of a famed geneticist, a Vatican archaeologist, and a...
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