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1) Seeing red
Author
Language
English
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Description
Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he was photographed leading a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews but then suddenly dropped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now Kerra is willing to use any means necessary...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.
Author
Series
Shaw and kaie james volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shadowy operative Shaw and Reggie Campion, a woman working for a secret vigilante group, must work together in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising enemy, in a struggle that leads them around the world at a breakneck pace.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware--this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
547 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family.
6) Look again
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, the child looks exactly like her adopted son, Will, which prompts Ellen to launch an investigation that ultimately threatens both of their lives.
7) Abandoned
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Max Revere investigates the disappearance of her own mother several years earlier, tracing her activities in a small Chesapeake Bay community where witnesses are keeping dark secrets.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Stella, deputy editor of The Globe, the choice has always been clear. It doesn't matter how low she has to stoop--getting the best story is what she's built her reputation on. For Jess, The Globe's rookie reporter, the story stops when the truth does. But she knows that the dirty tricks of the tabloids will be hard to overturn. And when a celebrity is hounded by The Globe and pays the ultimate price, Jess wonders just how much Stella and the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to leaving show business in the '80s - and, of course, the seven husbands...
11) Burning Bright
Author
Series
Peter Ash volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods in Northern California, but the trip isn't quite the balm he hoped for. The dense forest and close fog cause his claustrophobia to buzz and spark, and then he stumbles upon a hungry grizzly bear. Peter doesn't favor his odds in a fight of man against bear, so he makes a strategic retreat up a nearly sapling. There, he finds something strange: a climbing rope, affixed to a distant...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jacob's daughter and her boyfriend.
13) The rescue
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story's subjects-an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts...
14) Compulsion
Author
Series
Max Revere volume Book 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maxine revere compiles evidence in a case for which no one will support her. As she gets closer to the truth, she doesn't realize that she's walking sown a road that has been paved just for her. Every step she takes brings her one step closer to a brilliant, methodical sociopath who has been waiting for her to make just one small mistake.
15) 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.
16) The ice maiden
Author
Series
Britt montero volume 8
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Ten years after a devastating unsolved crime, a young artist finds her life once again disrupted by the same forces that sought to victimize her a decade earlier, a situation that prompts her to team up with reporter Britt Montero to solve the mystery.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carrie Slayton is a successful gossip columnist, but her dream is to become a serious journalist. Finnegan Dalton is a notorious recluse whose book about living in the Alaskan wilds skyrocketed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Recognizing a golden opportunity, Carrie uses a little guile in tracking down Finn's whereabouts in the snowy Alaskan wilderness outside of Fairbanks, only to discover that he truly is as mysterious and withdrawn...
18) The suspect
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent's worst nightmare ... When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor-and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors .... Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch...