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Three Pines mystery volume 16
Chief Inspector Gamache mystery volume 16
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Chief Inspector Gamache mystery volume 16
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Language
English
Description
"The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While the head of the world's largest defense contractor conspires to gain even more riches by instigating a war, an intelligence agent reluctantly travels to keep the world safe, and a journalist receives a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre.
Author
Series
Atlee Pine thriller volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
'My sister was abducted from here nearly thirty years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I'm back here now trying to find the truth' Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One...
4) Hour game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. The tension is further increased by a second killer who is copying the crimes of the first.
6) Maisie Dobbs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
Set in England in 1929, Maisie becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of wounded WWI veterans. At first, Maisie only suspects foul play, but she must act quickly when Lady Rowan's son decides to sign away his fortune and take refuge there. Maisie hurriedly investigates, uncovering a disturbing mystery, which, in an astonishing denouement, gives Maisie the courage to confront a ghost that has haunted her for years....
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John Corey novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces his toughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world's most dangerous terrorist — a young Arab known as "The Lion" who has baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping in his quest for revenge against the American pilots who bombed Libya and killed his family. Filled with unrelenting suspense and surprising plot twists at every terrifying turn, The Lion's Game...
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Series
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English
Description
"Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of Venice. From family meals to vaporetti rides, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series. But so are the never-ending influx of tourists and the suffocating corruption. Through it all, Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti, a good man who loves his family and his city, has been an enduring figure, but in Earthly...
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English
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A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
10) By its cover
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Series
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English
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One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist....
11) Careless in red
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Series
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing than its intrigue, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is indeed at work, and this time Lynley is not a detective but a witness and possibly a suspect.
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English
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"A page-turning whopper."— Entertainment Weekly.
The novel that took the nation by storm is now in paperback. Allan Folsom has created an international conspiracy of apocalyptic dimensions that interconnects three intricate and compelling stories spanning two continents and five decades.
The novel that took the nation by storm is now in paperback. Allan Folsom has created an international conspiracy of apocalyptic dimensions that interconnects three intricate and compelling stories spanning two continents and five decades.
13) The innocent
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Series
Will Robie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When hit man Will Robie refuses to kill his target he has to go on the run from his own people, and, along the way, he meets up with a fourteen-year-old runaway who is in danger after her parents were murdered.
14) The simple truth
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years after being convicted of the murder of a little girl, a black soldier discovers he was set up: someone drugged him to kill. When Rufus Harms appeals, the real killers come after him, so he breaks out of jail to help a lawyer bring them to justice. The book contains mature language situations.
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Series
Language
English
Description
When an adolescent boy is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, New Scotland Yard acting superintendent Thomas Lynley and his colleagues tie the crime to a series of killings but find the case complicated by racial issues. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career. When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street...
16) The fallen
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Series
Amos Decker volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Amos Decker is the Memory Man. Following a football-related head injury that altered his personality, Decker is now unable to forget even the smallest detail--as much a curse as it is a blessing. And in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci's gripping new thriller, Decker's life might be about to change again. Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic...
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