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41) The executor
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Philosophy graduate school student Joseph Geist, broke, homeless, and alone, answers an advertisement for a conversationalist and soon finds himself hired by a brilliant and generous elderly woman who makes him so comfortable in her home he never wants to leave.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a violent Wyoming blizzard, game warden Joe Pickett finds an arrow-riddled corpse stuck to a tree. The investigation, run by federal agents with conflicting agendas and strong rivalries, leads to a group of survivalists called the Sovereign Citizens.
43) Blood and fire
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Inspector Daniel Jouma teams up with Jake Moore, a fishing boat skipper and Jouma's old partner, to find a connection between the bodies that are piling up in Mombasa's morgue and the designs of a ruthless land developer for Flamingo Creek.
44) Hanging Hill
Author
Language
English
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Description
Detective Zoe Benedict's most recent case, a murdered young woman who was involved in amateur pornography, threatens to expose secrets from Zoe's past.
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains found in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a sign they were boiled soon after death. Once more, she finds herself at the helm of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, DCI Nelson is hunting for a missing homeless woman, Barbara, who he hears has gone "underground." Could she have disappeared...
46) Gideon's sword
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime---and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
47) 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
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Hailey Dean, a young psychology student at the time of her fiance's murder, devotes herself to making sure other violent criminals are brought to justice, but the gruesome case of a serial murderer in Atlanta prompts her to return to New York and her work as a therapist, only to have a copycat killer set his sights on her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
52) The ice house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While investigating the murders of nineteen people, including her grandparents, in a small village in Sweden, Judge Birgitta Roslin learns of others of the same family in Nevada who were also murdered and a connection between China and the slave trade of the nineteenth century.
54) Raylan
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he is surprised to find the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up, and missing his kidneys, and is determined to find out who is making the cuts before he ends up lying naked in a bathtub himself.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth, sets aside her chemistry experiments to solve the mystery behind the death of an unfortunate puppeteer--who was electrocuted--and attempts to discover how his death is connected to a cold case that the local constables have been unable to solve.
Author
Series
Doyle and Fossey science detectives volume 6
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grade sleuths and science experts Drake and Nell solve four challenging cases involving a werewolf at a campsite, a faked tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, a talking oven, and a polluted stream full of dead fish.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caterina Pellegrini, a musicologist with a doctorate in Baroque opera, takes a job in her hometown of Venice, Italy, in order to examine two trunks believed to contain the papers of a once-famous italian Baroque composer, a man well connected with the church but was caught up in a scandal in 1694.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Hackberry Holland protects the citizens of a small Southwest Texas border town and relies on his job to distract him from his grief over the loss of his wife and the mixed feelings he has for his young deputy, Pam Tibbs, but when a report is made that a man was tortured to death in the desert, Holland follows a lead to the home of Anton Ling, a Chinese woman who reminds Holland of his wife and is known for sheltering illegals.
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