Dennis Boutsikaris
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks.
2) Sandstorm
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after a wealthy British financier disappears near the site of a lost fabled city, the man's daughter leads an expedition of scientists in search of the city, which harbors a powerful but dangerous energy source.
4) Ricochet
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Language
English
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When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the keys to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job. At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge's trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous...
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 6
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English
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Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor.
7) The broker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
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Series
Clay Edison novels volume 5
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English
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"It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye, scraping by. Clay is brought a fraud case that begins with a man surprised to learn that he's been named the executor of his grandmother's estate. Her accounts are a mess, and not everything is adding up. He's at the end of his rope and needs Clay's expertise. As Clay dives deeper into a decades-old scheme targeting...
9) The surgeon
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A female heart surgeon, terrorized by a serial killer in Boston using the same MO as a killer who attacked her during her internship years in Savannah, works with a detective to solve the crime while trying to stay alive.
10) Red rabbit
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States, the Pope's life is in danger, as is the stability of the Western world. Jack Ryan is at the center of the action, but it may already be too late for a novice CIA analyst to do anything about the conflict. This is Clancy at his best--and there is none better.
11) The assassin
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Series
Tommy Carmellini novels volume 3
Language
English
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Rogue CIA agent Tommy Carmellini is called in by a desperate president to break up a deadly partnership between a renegade Mafia boss and ruthless al-Qaeda leader Abu Qasim, who is offering a fortune in exchange for a horrific terrorist attack on New York City.
12) The burning wire
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 9
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English
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Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme leads his team--NYPD detective Amelia Sachs, officer Ron Pulaski, and FBI agent Fred Dellray--to find and stop a killer who uses electricity as modus operandi. Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net.
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide--and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi are caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta"--Publisher description.
14) Trouble in mind
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Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
℗2014
Language
English
Description
Twelve short stories by acclaimed storyteller Jeffery Deaver. A devoted housekeeper embarks on a quest to find the truth behind her employer's murder. A washed-up Hollywood actor gets one last, high-stakes chance to revive his career. A man makes an impulsive visit to his hometown and learns more about his past than he bargained for. Two Olympic track hopefuls receive terrorist threats. And Deaver's beloved series characters Lincoln Rhyme, Kathryn...
15) The apprentice
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles-the inspiration for the hit TNT series-continue their crime-solving streak. The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns-and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly. It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes,...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Season two dives headfirst into the sweltering heat of a Chicago summer, grabs Gallagher family life by the throat, and never lets go. Boozed-up Frank's scams constantly fizzle. Grammy Gallagher visits after a prison stint. Bipolar Monica returns to fan Frank's flames. Fiona plays the field--until Steve comes back with a hot new wife. Lip drops out to care for his and Karen's baby. Ian's gunning for West Point.