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21) Haunted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
23) Caught
Author
Language
English
Description
Wendy Tynes, a reporter who identifies sexual predators through sting operations, has publicly shamed dozens of men before she encounters Dan Mercer. Dan is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
1st Pegasus Crime hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
468 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Criminologist Marina Esposito enters a deadly race against time after her house is set on fire, her husband winds up in a coma, and her baby daughter is kidnapped.
25) Red flags
Author
Series
Locard Institute thriller volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
D.C. crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Barr and pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies, former adversaries-turned-allies, must work together to find a missing baby, the child of a Washington power couple, in a kidnapping linked to a lobbying effort to loosen regulations on a billion-dollar gaming empire.
Author
Series
Marcus glenwood volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
367p. cm.
Language
English
27) Evan's gate
Author
Series
Constable Evan Evans volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frustrated in his efforts to build his fiancee their dream house, village constable Evan Evans discovers a decades-old skeleton of a young child with disturbing links to a present-day missing child case.
28) 10th anniversary
Author
Series
The women's murder club volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
30) Promise me
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their seven-year-old daughter goes missing, Antonia evaluates her decision to stay in a loveless marriage that caused her child to withdraw into silence, while Martin confronts an uncomfortable aspect of his own personality.
32) Gone by midnight
Author
Series
Crimson Lake novel volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear--and where others vanish into thin air... Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators--disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldn't have...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A local Alaskan man and a California girl search in a terrible snow storm for a lost boy with the help of several unsavory and out-of-place helpers each carrying a dark secret in this award-winning French novel.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collects three stories, including "The Killer's Wife, " in which Detective McGrath encourages a relationship with a suspect's wife in order to locate six missing girls.
The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems....
The Killer's Wife (with...
35) Dream country
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Thirteen years after her three-year-old son disappeared into the wilderness of Wyoming, Daisy Tucker returns to the scene of the crime to confront the demons of her past and to find her runaway daughter, the twin sister of her missing son.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this riveting new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series, a deeply damaged female soldier home from the war in Afghanistan becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl, gains an unlikely ally in a stray dog, and encounters new perils beyond the combat zone. LeAnne Hogan went to Afghanistan as a rising star in the military, and came back a much lesser person, mentally and physically. Now missing an...
Author
Series
At home in Beldon Grove volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1838 Missouri, Mollie McGarvey, having lost her husband to cholera, learns to cope with being a single mother and attempts to create a new life for her family.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century's worth of hate. On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, she must battle to survive the days and months ahead. Seven years later,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
"Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. The two couples have known each other since childhood. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are also the best of friends. When they and two other local...
Author
Series
Dark star trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened...