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61) Heat wave
Author
Series
Nikki Heat volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York real estate tycoon plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Holloway arrives at the home of her long-lost stepmother Nuala, only to the find the older woman dead. During a visit to the cemetery, Maggie, a professional photographer, notices something is amiss and finds herself the target of a sinister money-bilking plot.
Author
Series
The Boxcar Children volume 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times -bestselling tale of four orphaned siblings who will do anything to stick together, featuring more than thirty original illustrations. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden take care of one another. They have no parents, no other family-except for a grandfather they don't care to see-and no home . . . until the night they find the boxcar. Old, rusty, lonely, and abandoned in the woods, it's the perfect home for four brave children...
Author
Series
Ballpark Mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When cousins Mike and Kate go to Kansas City for the All-Star game, they meet the son of the American League starting catcher who stands falsely accused of playing practical jokes on his All-Star teammates.
68) Terminal
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
69) Easy prey
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Detective Lucas Davenport is called in to solve a double murder involving one of the world's best-known high-fashion models, while also trying to contend with the reappearance of an old lover in his life.
70) N" is for noose
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.
71) Breaker's reef
Author
Series
Cape Refuge volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso–ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House–is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager–mirroring a murder
...Author
Series
A Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia, Ramsforth will face the hangman's noose in a week's...
73) Blue lightning
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Oops. Nobody, not even the murderer, can leave the island until the storm clears.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
Bishop Blackie Ryan investigates rape and murder on an aircraft carrier, crewed by 5,000 men and 1,000 women "teeming with hormones." In the guise of a detective story, a penetrating analysis of the Navy's policy of mixing sexes and how it could work out.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is called in by James Barr, a man accused of a lethal sniper attack that leaves five people dead, and teams up with a young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gecko Press USA
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Someone's stealing the squirrel's nuts, and it's up to Detective Gordon to catch the thief. Unfortunately, solving this crime means standing in the snow and waiting for a long time... If only he had an assistant -- someone small, fast, and clever -- to help solve this terrible case. Then Detective Gordon would be able to go back to doing what he's best at: thinking, eating cakes, drinking tea, and stamping important papers.--
78) Spin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
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