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Publication Date
2014
Language
English
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"Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program--a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected--is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous murder in the very first episode. Now Laurie has the ideal case to feature in the next episode of Under Suspicion: the Cinderella Murder. When Susan Dempsey, a beautiful...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
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Description
Named one of Murder & Mayhem's Most Anticipated Mystery, Thriller, and Crime Books of 2025
Named a Goodreads Best Thriller & Mystery of 2025
Omar Hussain's dazzling debut, A Thousand Natural Shocks, is a mesmerizing meditation on trauma, memory, and identity wrapped in a high-octane thriller.
Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is desperate to outrun his past. During
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Publication Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A USA NETWORK ORIGINAL SERIES • “A taut and terrific page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) from the master of the courtroom thriller
“Great fun to read . . . The complex plotting is Grisham’s major accomplishment.”—Los Angeles Times
It’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor’s shirt and creditors are...
“Great fun to read . . . The complex plotting is Grisham’s major accomplishment.”—Los Angeles Times
It’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor’s shirt and creditors are...
5) The chamber
Author
Publication Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A dark and thoughtful tale pulsing with moral uncertainties . . . Grisham is at his best.”—People
In Chicago’s top law firm, a young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for...
In Chicago’s top law firm, a young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for...
6) The summons
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Publication Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ray Atlee is a newly-divorced law professor at the University of Virginia when he and his brother are summoned home to Clanton, Mississippi, by his dying father. Unfortunately, Judge Atlee dies before his sons arrive, leaving the details of his estate unsettled and a secret known only to Ray ... and perhaps someone else.
8) White lies
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Series
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Fearing that her high-level psychic abilities have irrevocably damaged her ability to have a healthy relationship, Clare Lancaster travels to California to assist her father's business and realizes that things are not as they appear upon meeting financial consultant Jake Salter, with whom she shares an unlikely chemistry.
10) The Long Walk
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Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever wrote tells the tale of the contestants of a diabolically cruel competition where 100 boys start the "long walk" and there is only one winner—the one that survives.
In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina...
The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever wrote tells the tale of the contestants of a diabolically cruel competition where 100 boys start the "long walk" and there is only one winner—the one that survives.
In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina...
11) Gray Mountain
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Publication Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: - 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...
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Publication Date
1999
Language
English
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From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punishment as only Louis L'Amour can tell them.
These stories are vintage L'Amour:
• A hard-bitten cattle driver is pitted against a man trying to steal his woman, the disappearance of a thousand head of cattle, and a plot to frame him for murder. . . .
• A private eye visits a remote...
These stories are vintage L'Amour:
• A hard-bitten cattle driver is pitted against a man trying to steal his woman, the disappearance of a thousand head of cattle, and a plot to frame him for murder. . . .
• A private eye visits a remote...
13) 15 seconds
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Henry Steadman didn't know what was about to hit when he pulled up to a red light. As a successful Florida plastic surgeon, he is in a town just outside Jacksonville, Florida to deliver a keynote address at a conference when suddenly his life becomes an unrelenting chase to stay alive. A random act of violence plunges him into a nightmarish world; he is accused of murdering two people and must clear his name and discover who is trying to destroy him...
14) The brethren
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Publication Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.
15) The cove
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Series
Publication Date
1996
Language
English
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Sally Brainerd, daughter of the murdered Amory St. John, flees Washington, D.C., to seek sanctuary in the quaint little town called The Cove, pursued by undercover FBI agent James Quinlan, who believes that Sally holds the key to solving her father's murder. Original.
16) The gunslinger
Author
Series
Publication Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations--The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with...
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
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One of The New York Times’s 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2018
*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine*
She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
“A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing ....
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2018
*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine*
She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
“A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing ....
Author
Series
Publication Date
2024
Language
Español
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Description
La explosiva secuela del thriller más viral del momento. Un best seller que triunfa en las listas de todo el mundo.
Es difícil encontrar trabajo sin que pregunten demasiado sobre tu pasado. Así que le agradezco al universo que, milagrosamente, los Garrick me hayan dado empleo limpiando su impresionante ático de Nueva York. Es casi perfecto. Sin embargo, todavía no he conocido a la señora Garrick ni he podido ver lo que hay dentro de la habitación...
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Publication Date
1985
Language
English
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"A crackerjack thriller" by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Silent Witness: A lawyer defending a Vietnam vet is caught in a kidnapper's web (Publishers Weekly). All of America is watching when a sniper's bullet cuts down presidential hopeful James Kilcannon. As the nation rises up in outrage, one lawyer is bold enough to represent the Vietnam veteran accused of firing the fatal shot. Tony Lord has never shied away from a fight, and he...
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Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Annie Powers's idyllic life in a Florida suburb with a wealthy, doting husband and beautiful young daughter begins to unravel when the demons of the past--which she cannot recall because of an intense dissociative state that has allowed her to build a new life--return to haunt her in the form of an enigmatic dark figure, the murder of her psychologist, and confusing, violent memories.