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21) Shock wave
Author
Series
Bill Tasker novels volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Bill Tasker is still smarting from a run-in with the FBI that almost got him killed when he reluctantly teams up with them again on a case involving a stolen Stinger missile.
Author
Publisher
Turner Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After San Francisco Police Inspector Gilman's brother-in-law is shot to death in a convenience store, the man's wife trails the killer to Boston, seeking revenge, with Gilman racing against time to stop her and discovering the apparently random murder has roots that extend forty years into the past, to occupied France.
23) Storm prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport, unwittingly witnesses the robbery of the hospital pharmacy where she works. With the death of a pharmacy worker on their hands, the three thieves set out to find out who Weather is, and eliminate the only possible witness ....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
27) Smoke wagon
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's 1873 and the Katy Railroad is hellbent on laying the first set of tracks through Indian Territory, but things have stalled out at a little place called Ironhead Station. The railroad has hired a new chief of police, a man named Morgan Clyde, but the gambling crowd is giving three-to-one that he'll be dead by the end of the week.
28) Lush life
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it's residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the "other" lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidiscopic portrait of the "new" New York.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Savannah Reid, that big, sexy, Southern-born sleuth with a black belt in karate has finally established herself as a P.I. in posh San Carmelita, California. All her Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency needs is enough business to pay the rent and put some serious sweets on the table.
No sooner does Savannah complete her first case-finding the long-lost sister of a local real estate broker-than murder enters the picture. Framed in a diabolically clever...
30) Hangman
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favor for an old friend, Teresa McLaughlin, but when she and her husband disappear, Decker's search is interrupted by the suspicious death of a young health care worker.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
33) Whispering rock
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 3
Language
English
Description
LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela, a twice-married, decorated U.S. Marine Corps reservist who had been wounded in the line of duty, finds peace and healing in the town of Virgin River, as well as new love in the person of Brie Sheridan.
"Virgin River became a safe haven for Sacramento prosecutor Brie Sheridan after she nearly lost her life at the hands of a crazed criminal. Though tough and courageous, she has some fears she can't escape--but now she...
34) The tale teller
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact -- a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe's been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware --...
35) Four blind mice
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey deep across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers.
36) Step on a crack
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a state funeral for a former First Lady at a New York City cathedral, armed men disguised as monks seize the church and dozens of hostages, and NYPD officer Michael Bennett takes on the dangerous role of lead negotiator in the standoff.
37) London bridges
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 10
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the blast....
38) The exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession comes The Exile, an all new heart-pounding thriller
The Los Angeles Police Department's famed 5-2 squad boards a commuter train in an attempt to take a cold-blooded killer into custody. John Barron, the newest and youngest member of the elite LAPD unit, learns quickly that the 5-2 has their own deadly system of justice, and that even the slightest protest...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bradley Jones, a deputy in the L.A. sheriff's department who's been transporting drugs for a Mexican cartel since he was 17, turns to fellow deputy Hood for help after henchmen of a rival cartel kidnap Jones's pregnant wife, Erin. If Jones doesn't pay the rival cartel's leader, Benjamin Armenta, a million within 10 days as an apology for the trouble he's caused Armenta, Armenta will have Erin skinned alive.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The best man in his hedge fund manager brother's spare-no-expense wedding in the Hamptons, Terry Rourke can't help but take another look at a decades-old murder trial that rocked the town--an investigation that turns even the most beautiful beach wedding into a wake.
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