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81) The quiet game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret -- and the small town's violent past.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sinner. Villain. Ruthless.These are wicked names the Prince of Envy welcomes. They remind him what he isn't: a saint. And when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows he'll be called much worse before it ends. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way. With a powerful artifact and his own future at stake, Envy is determined to win, though none of his meticulous plans prepare him for...
83) Liar's key
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan into a complex web of blackmail, greed and murder in the eagerly awaited new novel in the highly acclaimed Sharpe and Donovan series Emma Sharpe is suspicious when retired Special Agent Gordon Wheelock, a legend in FBI art crimes, drops by her Boston office for a visit. Gordy says he's heard rumors about stolen ancient mosaics....
84) You can run
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A CIA analyst makes a split-second decision that endangers her country but saves her son--and now she must team up with an answer-hungry journalist she's not sure she can trust in this electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. Nothing gets by Jill Bailey. As a CIA analyst, she's in charge of investigating and vetting new sources. Sources like FALCON, who's been on the fast-track to recruitment. He says he's...
85) The art of theft
Author
Series
(Sherry M.).Lady Sherlock volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas. But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a fever-paced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous Yuletide ball where the painting is one handshake away from...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1966, Christina Hardcastle "Tiny" to her illustrious family-stands on the brink of a breathtaking future. Of the three Schuyler sisters, she's the one raised to marry a man destined for leadership, and with her elegance and impeccable style, she presents a perfect camera-ready image in the dawning age of television politics. Together she and her husband, Frank, make the ultimate power couple: intelligent, rich, and impossibly attractive....
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As a low-level enforcer in Los Angeles, Ken Swift knows danger, but nowhere does he feel it more than in his tangled romances. Divorced from one woman, in love with another, and wrestling with a strong desire to get to know a third, his life is far from perfect, and it becomes all the more complicated when his troubled daughter resurfaces on the same day as a major job. Margaux is pregnant, bitter, and desperate: she needs $50,000 immediately, and...
88) Rogue justice
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A former prodigy refuses to believe her best years are behind her in this sparkling debut about second chances, unexpected joys, and the miraculous healing power of art and connection. It's a lot of pressure being compared to Mozart. Especially when you're only five. Prudence Childs was once the most famous kindergartner on the planet. She played at the White House, appeared on talk shows, and inspired a generation of children to take up piano. But...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A blackmailer targeting wealthy members of "Sister" Jane Arnold's club has turned the hunters into the hunted in this thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. It's the start of fox hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, several members of the hunt club receive ominous videos in which they appear to be doing...
91) Death in the air
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Poirot is on a flight from Paris to London when a woman is found to have died during the flight. She was apparently murdered with a blowgun dart poisoned with snake venom. All of the passengers are under suspicion even though it seems no one came near the victim.
92) Animal instinct
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The K Team is back in the second installment in this spinoff series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt's beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries. Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, a German shepherd named Simon Garfunkel, are recently retired police officers turned private investigators. Along with fellow former cop Laurie Collins and her investigating partner, Marcus, they call themselves the K Team, in honor of Simon. The K Team's latest case - a...
93) Game of patience
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accidental alchemist volume 5
Publisher
Gargoyle Girl Productions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A blackmailer obsessed with gold. A boyfriend who's more than he seems. And a treasure hidden on the Oregon coast. Alchemist Zoe Faust's mentor Nicolas Flamel is back in her life, but catching up with him will have to wait. An elusive blackmailer has threatened to expose a dangerous alchemical secret. Zoe's boyfriend is out of town protecting secrets of his own. So when rumors of a treasure map reach Zoe, she turns her back on what sounds like no...
95) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest installment in this mystery series. November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds...
Author
Series
Shirley and Jamila volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Language
English
Description
"Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who is using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering."
Author
Series
Andrew Gross novel volume 8
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead-- and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an...
100) White elephant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party,"--
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