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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes events of one day at a San Francisco Bay Area school as perceived by different second-graders, from the observations of first to arrive on the playground to the walk home.
43) Nightcrawlers
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" detective has become one of the longest-lived, and consistently highly praised, private investigators in the annals of American crime fiction and the award-winning author proves, once again, that his skills are unmatched.
Things were quiet in the San Francisco-based agency Nameless founded and his partners, Jake and Vanessa were itching to get back to work. A deadbeat father needed to be found, and Vanessa needed to do...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Homicide detective Kate Martinelli is jolted from her comfortable routine when she is called upon to investigate the murder of James Larsen, found dead under a clump of bushes, handcuffed, strangled, with stun gun burns on his chest and candy in his pocket; and her troubles intensify when two more victims are killed the same way.
47) Fire and fog
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The Great San Francisco Earthquake seems to shake up the life of sleuth Fremont Jones, when in the wake of the disaster she finds herself learning to drive, pursued by two admirers, falling in love, and becoming involved with murderous smugglers.
49) 6th target
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made changes in his professional life, but he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway. Clues are few, but Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, private investigator Sharon McCone finds her own adoption papers among his things. Her search for the truth takes her to the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where she unearths old hatreds and present-day violence.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Judy Maddox, a young FBI agent, is assigned to track down a terrorist group who have threatened to trigger a man-made earthquake if their demands are not met. With the help of seismologist Michael Quercus, Judy must race to beat the terrorist deadline and save San Francisco from being brought down in ruins.
54) Guilt
Author
Language
English
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Description
Mark Dooher, a San Francisco attorney, finds himself assigned to a scandalous lawsuit involving the city's Archdiocese, begins an affair with an engaged law student, and must prove his innocence when he is linked to two murders.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Women's Murder Club faces its toughest challenge as Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder of two San Francisco millionaires and reporter Cindy Thomas digs into the brutal slaying of a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless.
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