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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Following the stranger home for a one-night stand could cost inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett her life when her occasional boyfriend fails to arrive at a bar and a stranger named Colin hides her away in a remote Minnesota cabin, disregarding his employers' demands to kidnap Mia as part of an extortion scheme. Mia's mother and detective Gabe Hoffman will do whatever it takes to bring Mia home safe...but they're running out of time.
3) Dark places
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
As a child, Libby Day witnessed the murder of her mother and two older sisters by her brother, Ben. Her testimony sealed his fate and sent him to prison. Now in her 30s, Libby leads a solitary life. However, with her funds running out, she needs to get a job. Approached by a group who call themselves the Kill Club, she's offered payment for interviewing her brother, whom they believe is innocent of the murders. Before long, even she doubts what she...
4) Tailspin
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rye Mallett is a 'freight dog', a pilot who'll fly anywhere in the world, at any time, at a moment's notice, through the worst weather. As a fighter pilot in Afghanistan, he escaped death once. Figuring that it's only a matter of time before it catches up with him, he tempts it by taking risks. But one night he takes to the air, when no other pilot would, to deliver a black padlocked box. What awaits him at his destination is a near crash . . . and...
5) The guardian
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Four years after losing her husband, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson considers falling in love again and wonders if she should choose sophisticated Richard, who treats her like a queen, or down-to-earth Mike, who is her best friend, but when she eventually picks one man, the other man's jealousy turns into a deadly obsession.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
7) The crash
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
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Description
Eight months pregnant and abandoned by her baby's father, Tegan embarks on a desperate journey to her brother's house during a storm, only to crash and find herself at the mercy of a remote couple with potentially sinister intentions.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Eve Lattimore's family is like every other on their suburban street, with one exception. Her son Tyler has a rare medical condition that makes him fatally sensitive to light, which means heavy curtains and deadlocked doors protect him during the day and he can never leave the house except at night. For Eve, only constant vigilance stands between an increasingly restless teenage son and the dangers of the outside world. Until the night the unthinkable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
IN EUROPE'S MOST DANGEROUS CITYChris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world's most powerful investigation firm. He keeps his methods secret as he tackles Private's most high-profile cases-and when Chris suddenly disappears, he becomes Private Berlin's most dangerous investigation yet.AN INVESTIGATOR IS SEARCHINGMattie Engel is another top agent at Private Berlin, gorgeous and ruthlessly determined-and...
10) The forgotten
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator.
Author
Series
The Pelican Harbor volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Jane Hardy plunges into the investigation of a house fire that claimed the life of a local woman as well as one of the firefighters. It's clear the woman was murdered. But why? The unraveling of Jane's personal life only makes the answers in the case more difficult to find. Then Jane's fifteen-year-old son is accused of a horrific crime, and she has to decide whether or not she can trust her ex, Reid, in the attempt to prove Will's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past.
15) Make Me
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When he teams up with Michelle Chang, Jack Reacher finds himself involved in a private investigation that has turned lethal.
16) Ice
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
On holiday leave from the service, Gabriel McQueen is sent into a brewing ice storm to make sure that his father’s distant neighbor, Lolly Helton, who has fallen out of contact, is safe and sound. It’s a trip that Gabriel would rather not make, given the bitter winter weather—and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly. Arriving at Lolly’s home, Gabriel spots strangers through the windows—one...
17) No Plan B
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
“No Plan B is not to be missed. A perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before. It’s no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone’s favorite rebel hero.”—Karin Slaughter
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Reader’s Digest
In Gerrardsville, Colorado,...
“No Plan B is not to be missed. A perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before. It’s no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone’s favorite rebel hero.”—Karin Slaughter
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Reader’s Digest
In Gerrardsville, Colorado,...
18) Before the fall
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
“A wonderful story of mystery and romance.… Amanda Quick is the queen of romance. All of her books are keepers, and Wait Until Midnight is no exception.”—A Romance Review
The sins of Adam Hardesty’s past have been discovered. And if he does not hunt down his blackmailer quickly, his secrets will be revealed to all. But there is an obstacle in his way: sensation novelist Caroline Fordyce. She knows that...
The sins of Adam Hardesty’s past have been discovered. And if he does not hunt down his blackmailer quickly, his secrets will be revealed to all. But there is an obstacle in his way: sensation novelist Caroline Fordyce. She knows that...
20) The escape
Author
Series
[John Puller] volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." -- from author's web site.
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