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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
3) Skin
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"...a story of revenge...Skin asks the question "what is beauty?" Far more than a philosophical question, it's a matter of life and death when a serial killer blazes into Summerville, Nevada."
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Dan Wells's debut audiobook, I Am Not a Serial Killer, is the first installment in a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams. John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing...
5) Adam
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has a near-death experience when a mysterious serial killer attempts to murder him, forcing Daniel to re-create his death and challenge his belief system in order to identify his would-be killer.
6) Cell
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
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Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
7) Odd Thomas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
Dead people try to communicate with a short-order cook, who serves as a small desert town's reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill, and he is rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.
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Michael Bennett volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
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Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
NYPD detective Jack Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jack's daughter and her boyfriend.
10) Alex Cross, run
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A serial killer is kidnapping young girls, breaking their bones, and leaving them to die. Ryan Evans is an intelligence officer who is alienated from his own family. When the BoneMan kidnaps Ryan's daughter, Ryan must take on this deranged killer himself to save her.
12) Unlucky 13
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Women's murder club volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Description
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...
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Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?"--
Following the horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with Thomas Cresswell she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of...
15) Paper valentine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Followed everywhere by the ghost of her recently deceased best friend, Hannah investigates the serial murders of young girls in her community.
16) End of watch
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Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
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Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Description
The struggle to build an authentic identity lies at the heart of Astrid's life as a foster child in Los Angeles after her poet mother, who has kept Astrid isolated from the world, is imprisoned for murder.
18) Nearly gone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
"A math-whiz from a trailer park discovers she's the only student capable of unravelling complex clues left by a serial killer who's systematically getting rid of her classmates"--
19) Second honeymoon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all have one chilling thing in common--they're newlyweds.
20) Double cross
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Alex Cross volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
"Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing...
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