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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. But everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
2) Bare bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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.
Author
Series
Joe Gunther mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this high-stakes romantic suspense novel where tensions mount on both sides of the border, bestselling author Kelly Irvin explores what happens when the past explodes against the present and the only person you can turn to is the one who broke your heart"--
Laredo, Texas. When a man she's never met shows up at her restaurant, a bullet in his chest and her brother's name on his lips, Gabriella realizes he is connected to a powerful ring of criminals...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1887, and Alma is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by Pinkerton Detective Agency, Alma now works for Delphine Beaumond, the seductive mastermind of a smuggling ring. Alma's enjoying her dangerous game of shifting identities and double crosses as she fights for a promotion and an invitation back into Delphine's bed. But it's getting harder to keep her stories straight and to know whom to trust. One wrong move and she could be...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 32
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew comes to the aid of the owners of a local dancing school when they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping Regency romance of smugglers, adventure, mystery, and life-changing love from celebrated author KJ Charles. Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming man in a London molly house, he falls head over heels--until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning...
15) Mosquito
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of an African-American truck driver's accidental yet growing involvement in "the new underground railroad," a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants"--
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
British secret agent James Bond assumes the identity of a captured courier and solicits the help of gorgeous Tiffany Case, the diamond smugglers' American go-between.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In order to inherit a large fortune, Christopher "Kit" Ellingsworth must marry within a month and chooses Tamsyn Pearce, who runs a secret smuggling operation, only to discover after their wedding that she now controls the money.
18) Trackers
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When he agrees to help smuggle a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe, freelance bodyguard Lemmer experiences unexpected complications in the form of a fledgling private investigator and a journalist who recently left her abusive family.
Author
Series
Evan Tanner novels volume 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2007], ©1998
Language
English
Description
The newest novel in the long out-of-print Evan Tanner series finds the former thief and secret agent returning to the world after being on ice for 25 years. Tanner is about to embark on a new covert assignment that will take him to the exotic Far East, where mystery and menace are a way of life.
20) A perfect storm
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Spencer Lark already knows too many secrets about Arizona Storm, including the nightmare she survived and her resulting trust issues. But in order to expose a smuggling ring -- and continue avenging his own tragic past -- the bounty hunter reluctantly agrees to make Arizona a decoy. Yet nothing has equipped him for her hypnotic blend of fragility and bravery, or for the protective instincts she stirs in him.
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