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"Bailey Ruth's supervisor, Wiggins, is worried about a dear old friend. The ghost of elegant Lorraine Marlow haunts Adelaide's college library. Known as the Lady of the Roses, she plays matchmaker, using the fragrant flowers to pair up students. But someone's making mischief after hours, leaving roses strewn about the library, destroying a gargoyle, and stealing a valuable book. Concerned with Lorraine's reputation among the living, Wiggins dispatches...
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Regan Reilly mysteries volume 18
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PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey shore with her parents. Regan's mother, suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly, will be celebrating her birthday on Saturday. But Regan's weekend gets off to an early start when she receives a phone call from her mother asking if she'd hop on a train right away.Regan had just finished delivering bad news to a high school classmate. Hayley Patton...
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Two masters of the thriller genre break new ground with their first collaboration, introducing two different sets of cops in two different cities, faced with two very different murders. In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are working the 4pm-2am Special Investigation shift when they're called to the scene of a blunt-force homicide. The victim: a wealthy art dealer with a shady reputation, very few friends and an awful lot of enemies who're...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume Related works
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Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since 1977. In the process, McCone has gained a host of associates and formed her own detective agency. Some seven years ago, Marcia Muller decided to show readers different views of her sleuth by relating cases through the eyes of McCone's colleagues. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Alvirah Meehan and Reagan Reilly get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eight-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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Kay Scarpetta, despite her busy schedule, has offered her services to New York City's Medical Examiner. Her increased visibility seems to precipitate unsettling events. She is asked live on CNN about the case of Hannah Starr, who has vansihed and is presumed dead. During the same telecast she receives a call-in from a former psychiatrist patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns home after the show, she finds a package, possibly a bomb, waiting...
50) Port mortuary
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
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Many years ago, Kay Scarpetta accepted a scholarship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. These military ties have taken her to the port mortuary aat Dover Air Force Base for a training fellowship. Upon her return to the Cambridge Forensic Center, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility. A young man drops dead, but when his body is examined the next morning, there are indications that he may have...
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 1,2&3
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©1992
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This three-in-one volume contains the very apex of Tony Hillerman's award-winning writing: Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, and Talking God. Each novel is complete and unabridged, and each features both of Hillerman's beloved Navajo Tribal Policemen, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, battling ancient evil and modern crime. Skinwalkers, the first book to unite Leaphorn and Chee, draws them deep into the realm of Navajo witchcraft as they investigate...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 11
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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The solutions to 10 mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section, challenging the reader to match wits with the 10-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
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"Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law - lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once." "Until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a world that doesn't want to be saved. Then Grace comes to him, past and...
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FBI special agent Lacey Sherlock satisfies an old grudge when she apprehends the String Killer, a man credited with murdering her sister seven years before, but a closer examination of the clues has Lacey wondering whether the String Killer is guilty of Belinda's death--and if not, who is?
Lacey Sherlock, becomes an FBI agent to help unravel the mysteries of her own past. Seven years after her sister was brutally slain by a serial killer, Lacey is...
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Highway 59 volume 1
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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
57) Eggnog murder
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An omnibus of novels by Lee Hollis, Leslie Meier and Barbara Ross. With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine - until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog . . .
58) See How They Run
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c1997
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Somewhere outside New York City, a glittering party is under way at the palatial home of Dr. David Strauss' parents. But the affair turns suddenly tragic when, as Strauss looks on in horror, gunmen burst through the door and murder his wife.
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 15
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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More mysterious cases for "America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers" to solve for the standard twenty-five-cent fee. Solutions are included at the back of the book.
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"A beautiful woman goes to extremes to rid herself of her stalker, a daughter begs her father not to go fishing in an area where there have been a series of brutal killings, a contemporary of the playwright William Shakespeare vows to avenge his family's ruin and Jeffery Deaver's most beloved character, criminalist Lincoln Rhyme, is back to solve a chilling Christmastime disappearance" -- Publisher.