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Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
84) Hot mahogany
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Stone Barrington, having accepted an assignment to watch over CIA agent Lance Cabot's brother who is suffering from amnesia, finds out that the man he is guarding had stolen gold coins from the South Vietnamese government and may be responsible for the theft of a twenty-four million dollar antique secretary.
85) Heat lightning
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Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Summoned by Lucas Davenport to investigate a pair of murders in which the victims are found with lemons in their mouths, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers struggles to find a connection that could prevent additional killings.
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott's anxiety over her upcoming Christmas wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant is compounded by the murder of a colleague, her involvement in helping students research the innocence of a death-row prisoner, ongoing renovations to her house, and worries over how to connect with her soon-to-be stepson.
87) Yellow moon
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Marie Levant, an emergency room doctor at New Orleans Charity Hospital--and an ancestor of a voodoo queen--discovers evidence from a collection of murder victims that the wazimamoto--an African vampire--has been resurrected and has designs for Marie's loved ones.
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Insurance investigator DD McGil is hired to determine the authenticity of a collection of stories and poems believed to be by Ernest Hemingway, and after David Barnes, an expert of the author who found the writings, is killed, McGil finds her life in danger as well.
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New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Maxie McNabb, a sixty-something woman who likes wandering the country in her mobile home, agrees to put her plans for a lazy summer in Alaska on hold to help her old friend Karen who is moving from Hawaii back up north, but she arrives in the islands to find Karen has not told her the truth and is soon embroiled in a dangerous mystery.
90) Kindred in death
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c2009
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English
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called in to investigate when the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return from vacation to find their sixteen-year-old daughter has been brutally murdered, but a mistake on Eve's part may compromise the entire investigation and let a killer go free.
91) The last man
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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David Hall, an American engineer, travels to Israel to investigate the story about the Jewish revolt against Rome that took place at a fortress called Masada in 70 AD, and is shadowed by an Israeli archaeologist, Judith Ressner, but Hall's efforts cause him to become a target for Israeli security forces intent on protecting Masada.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Private investigator Teddy Ruzak discovers he might be in over his head when his first case, finding the driver responsible for the hit-and-run of a gaggle of geese, turns into a murder investigation.
93) From away
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Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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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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Jack gets a clue volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a prankster's tricks cause Principal Bumble to consider cancelling the big school trip, it's up to Jack and his brainiac friend, Elizabeth, to track down the culprit by using Jack's ability to talk to the animals at school.
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Hollywood cop Nate Weiss agrees to help Margot Aziz protect her fortune, her son, and herself from her soon-to-be-ex husband, strip club owner Ali Aziz, but soon suspects Margot might not be as innocent as she wants Nate to believe.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Detective Shane Scully reports to a Hollywood mansion, the scene of a gruesome murder twenty-five years earlier, to find three dead prostitutes in what his colleagues believe is an open and shut case, but Scully has his doubts and soon uncovers a link between the killings and the mansion's bloody past.
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Attorney Greg Monarch is called to represent his former partner Ira Sullivan who has been accused of murdering a local postmaster, and finds his efforts focusing on the beautiful Sandy Polson, a pathological liar who claims to have seen Ira commit the crime.
100) Another woman
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English
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On the morning of her wedding, Cressida Forrest disappears, and everyone is shocked to find out that she might not have been the woman she claimed to be.
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