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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago, presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice, has never reconciled with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him.
3) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty.
Author
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are kidnapped by their errant father Wade, an ex-minor league baseball player whom they haven't seen in years, while their court appointed guardian races against time to find them before a vengeful killer does.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck volume 12
Language
English
Description
"In which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences" -- Provided by publisher.
"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
vi, 329 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Three-Fingered Jack McKinney's young son asks him to find his father, who abandoned him and his mother, Luke Jensen agrees to help the boy, but finds his good deed putting him in the middle of a deadly father-and-son reunion.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Satan tempts him with the promise of one more successful robbery, thief Lee Fontana, the night before he is paroled, must make a life-changing decision with the help of a spirited phantom cat who tails him on his dangerous mission.
10) The Highway Rat
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A very bad rat rides his horse along the highway, stealing travelers' food, until clever Duck introduces him to her "sister".
11) Nightwork
Author
Language
English
Description
When Harry Booth started stealing at nine, it was to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head and pay her medical bills. At night, in darkness, he'd slip into rich people's empty homes, opening drawers and safes filled with luxuries he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer after a long, valiant battle, he left Chicago - but kept up his nightwork. From leaving a party at a Savannah mansion with a diamond bracelet...
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventure volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
381 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 4
Publisher
Grosset and Dunlap Publishers
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
175 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Read how the Hardy boys use all their courage and skill to outwit criminals in their home town. The Missing Chums is one of the most baffling mysteries the young detectives have ever encountered.
14) Malibu burning
Author
Series
Sharpe and Walker volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles' history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of...
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cajun box man known as Duval blows a safe in San Francisco and makes off with sixty thousand dollars in diamonds and precious stones. Insurance Company of North America engages Colonel David Crook's Great Western Detective League. Veteran investigators Beau Longstreet and Briscoe Cane take the case.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Toad brothers are wreaking havoc in Drywater Gulch when a boy with no experience but immense knowledge of dinosaurs, rides into town on his tortoise and declares himself the new sheriff.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery and Theo is the accused. His reputation is on the line, and with the evidence building against him and dangerous threats looming, Theo will do whatever it takes to prove his innocence even if it means breaking a few rules.
18) Tear it down
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter needs to be on the move, so she sends him to Memphis to help her friend Wanda Wyatt, a photographer and war correspondent who's been receiving peculiar threats. When Peter arrives in Memphis, however, he finds the situation has gone downhill fast. Someone has just driven a dump truck into Wanda's living room. But neither Wanda nor Peter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dear Uncle Morton, Are you sitting down? If you're not, you probably should. Because I have some very bad news. Someone has stolen one of your dragons. Eddie's mom is getting remarried, to Uncle Morton's Scottish neighbor Gordon. But then Ziggy is stolen. It's not long before Arthur is taken too. Eddie must track the thief down, rescue Uncle Morton's dragons and get to the church on time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heading into the wild West seems an adventure to fifteen-year-old Justin Bodean, until the bullet and arrows begin to fly. The lure of a treasure of Civil War gold drives him, but out where fortunes can be grabbed by the strongest and quickest, he has a lot to learn.