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Series
Andrea Oliver volume 2
Language
English
Description
Who killed Emily Vaughn? The stunning new standalone thriller from international No. 1 bestseller Karin Slaughter. A girl with a secret ... Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night, the highlight of any high school experience. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, she will be dead. A murder that remains a mystery ... Forty years later, Emily's murder remains unsolved. Her friends closed ranks, her family retreated...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"New superiour court judge Alex Cormier is assigned to preside over the case of the alleged Sterling High School shooter. Lawyer Jordan McAffee represents Peter--the boy who, on the day of the shooting, was found in the corner of the gymnasium holding a gun to his head with a shaky hand. Detective Patrick DuCharme has one star witness, but her story keeps changing. And then there's the biggest problem of all--the star witness happens to be Judge Cormier's...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. Years later, Megan is a celebrity; Nicole is still missing. Nicole's sister Livia, a forensic pathologist, begins to find...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar®, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Three is just one of those reasons. Lippman's brilliant and disturbing tale of three inseparable high school girlfriends in an affluent Baltimore suburb who share dark secrets literally until death. Not merely crime fiction, but fiction that gets...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows small town girl Jessie as she deals with first love and loss.
When Jessie's boyfriend, Chris, disappears right before graduation, she presses the police to investigate, fearing that Chris--who is black--has been targeted for violence.
Jessie and Chris are taking a one-week break to get some perspective before graduation and the big, scary decisions about their future. Then, Chris vanishes; the police think he's run away. He was about to...
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Series
Language
English
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Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigates two separate cases that, to her, seem connected--but she doesn't know how. Carmen Acosta was brutally beaten after getting suspended for a fight in school with Deena, the two girls fighting over a boy. Not helping things is the fact that the Acosta family holds first place for the most domestic violence calls in police records. Meanwhile, county manager Ziegler has disappeared, and had a good relationship...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable in her own skin unless she's swimming. During summer break, Angie is walking home after training at the high school pool when she finds Henry McCleary, a classmate from a wealthy,...
Author
Series
Nightingale trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus books edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two lonely teenage girls in 1940s Washington, DC, discover they have a penchant for solving crimes--and an even greater desire to commit them. Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled seventeen-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She's lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Everybody likes Chris Goodman. He's the kind of guy who's always up for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes Chris Goodman, which makes it especially shocking when he's murdered. How could a thing like this happen?
11) The amateurs
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Series
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four teens who met on an online cold-case solving forum attempt to solve another teen's murder"--
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Judith's son has shot two students, a teacher, and himself at school. An ordinary wife and mother must suddenly grapple with extraordinary grief and horror, struggling to be the center of her remaining family but plagued by doubts and questions that may disrupt her life more completely than the shooting"--Provided by publisher.
13) The truth sleuth
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When budget cuts force college librarian and psychic sleuth Kim Reynolds to work as a high school English teacher, she has a premonition about a student who is later found dead. When a fresh premonition leads Kim to another body, she vows to discover the truth, her quest complicated by hostility from fellow teachers, a pervasive atmosphere of anxiety at school and the return to town of her detective boyfriend's not-so-ex wife.
14) Bad memory
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter, a convicted murderer whose execution is days away, Jessica can't resist the offer. Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town is certain she's guilty. As Jessica...