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81) True witness
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Brodie Farrell novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Witnessing the death of a young man at Dimmock pier, Daniel Hood believes that the police are looking for the wrong suspect and is assisted by investigator Brodie Farrell, who wants to save Daniel from his own dangerous impulses.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Meet Sterling Brooks. His was not an exemplary life -- he was too self-absorbed to ever really think about anyone else or make a commitment to the woman he loved. On the other hand, he had endearing qualities. His actual misdeeds were few -- his were sins of omission, not commission. It is a few days before Christmas. For forty-six years Sterling has lingered in the celestial waiting room outside the heavenly gates, awaiting summons by the Heavenly...
85) A cold treachery
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Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the New York Times Book Review called "harrowing psychological drama" and the Washington Post Book World hailed as "among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days." This time the embattled Inspector has met his match hunting a brutal killer across a frozen hell and the one witness who may have survived a crime of. A COLD TREACHERY "You'll...
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Pub. Date
c2011
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"'I need your help.' Bodyguarding is Kyra Morgan's business--but this was supposed to be a vacation. Still, she can't refuse the request from childhood friend and neighbor Michael Hunt. Michael's sister Amy ran away after witnessing a murder. Michael needs Kyra's help to find her and keep her safe. Yet as Kyra and Michael follow the trail along the Florida coast, their search grows more dangerous by the day. Terrorists are at work, and the stakes...
87) The Reapers
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As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up and moves on, but he is forever changed by the cruel and brutal nature of the act. It lights a fire deep within him that burns white and cold, a quiet flame just waiting to ignite. Now, years later, the sins of his life are reaching into his present, bringing with them the buried secrets and half-forgotten acts of his...
88) Denial
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Investigator Lew Fonesca tackles a pair of linked cases involving an elderly woman who swears against all evidence that she has witnessed a murder in her retirement home and a hit-and-run accident that has killed a fourteen-year-old boy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"When Abbie Adams, a historian-turned-journalist, is hired to investigate a cold-case murder from 1969, she jumps at the chance. But soon after she begins researching the case, she realizes that Frank Wexler, the faculty advisor who tanked her thesis and a member of a powerful family in town, is connected to the crime and is definitely not talking. As Abbie tracks down the remaining living witnesses, she slowly pieces together the events of that fateful...
91) You belong to me
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Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 1
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Years ago, a young woman was beaten and raped while onlookers did nothing. Now those witnesses are becoming victims themselves. Baltimore homicide detective J.D. Fitzpatrick has seen a lot of horrific violence, both as a cop and during his deployment in Afghanistan. But nothing like the trail of tortured bodies that are turning up throughout the city. He's up against a brutal killer with a very personal vendetta, and now J.D. is beginning to suspect...
92) How it went down
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
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Series
Love inspired suspense volume 1036
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
After witnessing a murder outside of her café, Rachel Miller runs for her life and turns to Amish farmer Jacob Strauss for protection. Now in a killer's sights, Rachel and Jacob must figure out how to keep her safe. After evading several kidnapping attempts, Rachel realizes the danger may be linked to her past--but searching for hidden truths could prove deadly.
94) Risky reunion
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Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"As a novice FBI agent, Jackson McGraw was deeply touched by the young single mother--a murder witness--in his protective custody. When her baby girl was almost killed, Eloise fled--selflessly leaving her child in his care with a note to find her a good Christian home. Now, twenty years later, the mob is obsessed with retaliation against the woman whose testimony imprisoned their late don. Jackson is determined to track Eloise down to protect her--and...
95) Mountain rescue
Author
Series
Operation K-9 brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
The sole witness to a murder, stuntwoman Rachel Denning thought shed found the perfect hideout in a remote cabin just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Until a strange man appears in her bedroom. After a few terrifying moments, she realizes its a mix-uphes not there to kill herand Rachel finds herself with an unexpected protector in the form of a navy SEAL. Dallas Manning is just trying to recover. After being rescued from the Taliban, hes on extended...
96) Lethal
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When Honor Gillette's four-year-old daughter, Emily, informs her that a sick man is lying in their front yard, Honor rushes out to help him. But the "sick man turns out to be Lee Coburn, accused of murdering seven men in cold blood the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word. But everything changes...
97) Renegade
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Series
Elite Ops volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A bridal shop owner, Mikayla Martin, witnesses a murder. The man she identifies as the killer swears he is innocent and seeks help from his friend Elite Ops agent Nikolai Steele. Nik goes to Mikayla to set her straight but is smitten by her beauty. When someone wants Mikayla dead, Nik must find a way to keep her safe and clear his friend's name.
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Serge Storms novels volume 26
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the "wickedly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey"--
99) Seeing red
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Pub. Date
c2009
Description
When a brave little girl and the women of Cornwall flap their red petticoats at Old Boney, Napoleon imagines that he sees redcoats and retreats to France with his men and his warships.
100) Two good dogs
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"Single mom Skye Mitchell has sunk her last dime into a dream, owning the venerable, if run-down LakeView Hotel in the Berkshire Hills. It s here where she believes she'll give her fourteen-year-old daughter Cody a better life. But being an innkeeper is more challenging than she imagined, and Cody still manages to fall in with the wrong crowd. In addition, Cody is keeping an earth-shattering secret that she's terrified to reveal. The once loving,...