Barbara Rosenblat
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Tess Monaghan is called to help Mark Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who grudingly gives important information, find his family that simply vanished. Tess is able to locate the runaway wife and family, moving furtively with an unremarkable stranger. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance unravels as memory leads to rage to murder.
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Set in Aspen Meadows, Colorado, Goldy Schulz, an amateur sleuth and food catering extraordinaire, stars in Diane Mott Davidson's culinary-themed mystery series. With recipes interwoven into the plotlines, Davidson's mysteries make for a delicious listen. In Fatally Flaky, Goldy must deal with an overwhelmingly difficult bride while investigating a murder.
4) Daddy's girl
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When a riot breaks out in the prison she is visiting, law professor Natalie Greco witnesses the death of a prison guard whose last words reveal a dangerous conspiracy, putting Nat into a situation in which she is targeted by murderers and the police.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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From a New York Times bestselling author, a Victorian-era thriller featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, a self-proclaimed spinster and heiress who's unrattled by anyone–including mummies.
The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who...
The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who...
6) The search
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Eve Duncan novels volume 3
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Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, are a dedicated team. They are sent into the most difficult disaster areas on the roughest rescue missions. When she discovers that she has been lured into a deadly conspiracy disguised as a search, she is furious.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 2
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Sir Henry is striving to ensure no tomb has been overlooked by the previous expedition. Scarcely have the men started working when their spades uncover a series of steps cut into the rock. Then Sir Henry is found stiff and stark in his bed. On his high brow, inscribed in what appears to be dried blood, is a crudely drawn uraeus serpent, the symbol of the divine pharaoh.
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 1
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A widowed matron decides to pursue her lifelong desire to be a spy, finds herself useful to the CIA, and successfully completes an assignment which takes her from New Jersey to Mexico City to Albania.
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"As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they're the perfect match. 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva...
12) Slightly shady
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Amanda Quick's bestselling trademark is a combination of suspense and passion in historical tales alight with sparkling wit and brimming with dangerous intrigue. Now she serves up the most tantalizing novel of her career as an enterprising woman allies herself with a mysterious spy, only to be caught in a seething brew of treachery — and temptation....
From the moment he burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew the stranger...
From the moment he burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew the stranger...
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"Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning's life heats up when a gala at a local jewelry store serves up heists and homicide alongside her herbal teas... Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. After all, a slew of jewelers, museums, and private collectors will be there to showcase their wares and sip some of Theo's best blends. But just as Theo settles in to enjoy the fruits...
14) Boar Island
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"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then...
15) 206 bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
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Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and case of a missing heiress from Montreal-- an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal, and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged her work in the lab.
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A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz....
17) Moment of truth
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Mary's new client, Jack Newlin, is an innocent man claiming to be guilty. Now she finds herself risking her own life to discover why a man would frame himself for his wife's murder.
18) Bare bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
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"Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan can't believe it. She finally gets to go on a vacation--with a potential love interest no less--only to have her plans derailed when a collection of bones is found in the woods near a posh victim."--Container.
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"In the alien catacombs of Rainshadow, there are creatures whose compelling songs lure the unwary to their death. That's why Rafe Coppersmith, hired to clear out the catacombs for exploration, needs a music talent. He knows the perfect one, but she probably doesn't want anything do with him. Ella Morgan had once fallen hard and fast for Rafe, but then he disappeared for months and he's not about to tell her why. Ella, too, has secrets that only her...