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1) Beach road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"A struggling Montauk lawyer agrees to defend a local man accused of murdering several flashy Hamptons types and finds himself in the midst of another trial of the century"--Library journal.
2) Long lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Myron Bolitar hasn't heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call but then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain...
5) Stone cold
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts"--Provided by the publisher.
6) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
In the gripping new novel from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked -- despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to leave Albany and work in a major law firm in Manhattan. Feeling a need for roots, she buys...
8) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Formats
Description
In the finale to the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Two killers are chasing an American man who's about to face cold-blooded terror on a picture-perfect vacation . . . and discover a truth that could destroy them all.
Cool and glamorous, they appear to be a successful couple on a holiday . . . but Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. On this picture-perfect vacation island, their target is Peter Macdonald, a dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure to confront...
Cool and glamorous, they appear to be a successful couple on a holiday . . . but Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. On this picture-perfect vacation island, their target is Peter Macdonald, a dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure to confront...
10) The Kingdom
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts.
11) The cellar
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
13) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing and now he's found a way--doctoring water samples so that ruthless agribusiness tycoons can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sweetheart roses -- the traditional gift of lovers. Yet they had been an important clue in the murder 10 years ago of strikingly beautiful Suzanne Reardon, whose husband, Skip, is now serving a life sentence for that murder. Kerry McGrath had only begun to work in the county prosecutor's office at the time of the infamous "Sweetheart Murder Case," yet she remembers being impressed by both the ability her new boss, Frank Green, displayed in successfully...
15) Blue diary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In Washington State, the trial of Kabuo Miyomoto, a Japanese-American fisherman accused of murdering another fisherman, Carl Heine. The prosecution charges the murder was committed as revenge for the Heine family taking Miyomoto's land at the outbreak of World War II and the novel traces the different reaction of the white and yellow communities. By the author of The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind.
18) The last juror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Description
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
20) A time to kill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Description
A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
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