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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone"--
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse's has his doubts... especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal. Two powerful moguls are fighting...
3) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
Author
Series
Inspector Joona Linna volume 2
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
500 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this sequel to THE HYPNOTIST, Detective Joona Linna returns to investigate a series of interlinking murders surrounding a suspicious Swedish arms deal"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Twelve years after the death of a fellow student and the suicide of a quiet loner, college friends, linked to these past events, gather together to celebrate an engagement but are soon targeted by a killer who demands they tell the truth.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to...
10) Find me
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunted by sightings of his girlfriend who has committed suicide, Jarlath Costello is drawn into a dark underworld when her aunt gives him a hard drive containing a diary that reveals information about her suspicious death.
11) Choose Me
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant&;so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl&;s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there&;s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn&;s suicide&;or a motive for her murder.
To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Since his father's suicide, Will, sixteen, has mainly walked, worked at Dollar Only, and tried to replicate his father's cornbread recipe, but the rape of his childhood friend shakes things up.
13) Dear Evan Hansen
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar after a chance encounter with Connor just before his suicide leads others to believe Evan was his only friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A chance discovery of a ten-year-old old video shares disturbing insights into the suicide of her best friend, who may have been murdered on a hazy drunken night, a revelation that compels Lindsay to determine her own role.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day Crime and Punishment, this American debut is a glittering noir gem that will appeal to readers of Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas Harris and Dennis Lehane How far would you go for your best friend? If she begged you to, would you kill her? Nathan Lucius, 31, is an ad salesman at a local Cape Town newspaper. Disaffected, hard-drinking and plagued by nightmares, Nathan lives alone with only one true friend, a woman named Madge. But...
17) The broken road
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Chicago celebrity, Charles James can shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted-fame, fans and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this is...
19) Anthem: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
20) Dark harbor
Author
Series
Stone Barrington volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the unlikely murder-suicide case of his cousin, who secretly worked for the CIA, Stone Barrington is surprised to learn that his cousin had named him the executor of his estate just prior to his death.