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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Description
Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
...2) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
The children of Tulsa are dying, and only Ben Kincaid can bring them justice Leukemia is a terrible disease but also, thankfully, a rare one. So why have eleven children from a suburb outside of Tulsa have perished from this horrible illness in the last few years? The children's parents blame Blaylock Industrial, a massive corporation whose factory lies just outside of their bucolic small town, but they have no proof beyond gut instinctand the terrible...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and the identity of a really cold corpse.
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder, as...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Lisa and Joe Stone, partners in their small law firm in Virginia, handle less-than-glamorous cases, including never- ending complaints from their cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt. When Lettie dies in a freakish fire, they question how "accidental" her demise actually was.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A nameless angel, out of God's favor, decides to intervene in the case of Will, a business executive with damaging secrets about his company who is driven to bring the truth to light and finds his actions have unexpected and mortal consequences.
15) Pleasantville
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs. When Skip lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems, they think their dreams have finally come true. But, as usual for these two, things are not exactly what they seem.
18) Fuzzy nation
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Jack Holloway, prospecting on Zara XXIII for ZaraCorp, finds an immensely valuable stream of sunstone. But when he forwards footage of the planet's catlike, native "fuzzies" to a biologist friend --who believes the "fuzzies" are sentient--hired company thugs, murder, and arson soon follow to protect ZaraCorp's mining interests.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Ex-Special Forces operative Sam Dryden responds to an urgent call from a former colleague and finds himself in possession of a device which has the power to change the course of history. There are some very bad people determined to get their hands on this device, and will stop at nothing to do so"--
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Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Set in the year 2140 in the futuristic Los Angeles region, motorcycle courier Kris Ballard sees something she wasn't supposed to while making a delivery. Now she's stuck with a package that everyone seems to want, and the corporations that make all the rules want her gone. So Kris takes to the Level 1 streets, the only place she can hide from these corporate killers.
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