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1) Deal breaker
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Series
Language
English
Description
The debut of Myron Bolitar, a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent and one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction, Deal Breaker is a page-turning classic from Edgar Award–winner and master storyteller Harlan Coben.
“One of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction.”—Dennis Lehane
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian...
“One of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction.”—Dennis Lehane
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian...
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Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who's hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible, plus...
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Series
Spenser novels volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist, " so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
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Series
Ty Hauck novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"A pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross, about a whitewater rafting guide who investigates a suspicious death and uncovers a multinational conspiracy"--
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
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English
Description
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate -- and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison....
7) The showdown
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Series
Saddlehill Academy volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Abby is worried her unmasked blackmailer will expose the one secret she cannot risk getting out, and to make matters worse, the drama is affecting her performance on Beau, putting her place on the team in jeopardy.
10) Copper Beach
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Series
Dark legacy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Contemporary novel with paranormal elements; first novel of the The Dark Legacy series"--
A rare book. An ancient code. Abby's psychic talents have made her an expert in books of the paranormal-- and now an old alchemical text know as The Key has reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also be a body guard, she hires Sam. Passion flares immediately between them, yet neither entirely trust the other. Both...
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Hired by a wealthy banker to nab an extortionist who has threatened to reveal personal secrets unless he receives more money, John Quincannon and Sabina Carpenter find the case turning deadly when a courier is found dead in a locked room.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. Once she arrives at the legendary...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
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Language
English
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Description
When Nora Bridge left her husband and her two daughters 10 years ago, she took the only route she could see, and assumed she still had her daughters' love. Now, though she is distant from her own daughters, Nora is the hostess of a radio advice show, where she advises listeners that "family comes first." When a scandal breaks and Nora hits rock bottom, she finds she has to rely on the two people she has betrayed most deeply: her daughters, Ruby and...
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Series
Schuler sisters volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One half of a political power couple struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph.
16) On target
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Series
Gray Man thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Four years ago, Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. To survive, he had to eliminate his own brothers in arms. Now, as a master assassin known as the Gray Man, he makes his living killing other people. But when an old comrade he thought dead returns to haunt him, his own life is put in the crosshairs. The man wants Court to complete a mission, with one crucial catch to his orders: Instead of a difficult assassination, the job will...
17) The associate
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle McAvoy becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.
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Series
Repairman Jack novels volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Repairman Jack is back in New York City where he tries to find out who is blackmailing a nun and helps elderly Maria Roselli find her missing son, whom may have joined the cult-like Dormentalist Church.
19) Madam X
Author
Publisher
Dafina/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Leaving the high-end prostitution game behind, Desdemona, settling down with the love of her life, finds herself in the center of a social and tabloid media firestorm as she tries to stay one step ahead of the police while dealing with a malicious blackmailer determined to destroy her for good"--
20) Nemesis
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to investigate threats by a mysterious extortionist against a newly rich young woman, Jake Runyon makes a series of surprise discoveries that cause him to be wrongfully accused of a crime and his employers to be subjected to a vicious legal vendetta.
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