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Shipwreck (Detective Murdoch mystery.)
By Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.Burn barrel (The Sundown Fiction Collection)
By Charles Larocca. 1990
Harry is a Vietnam War vet and an ex-con. When he finds a dead body in a men's room at…
work, he wonders if it really happened, or if his old hallucinations are coming back. Soon, Harry comes face to face with the killer and a choice - betray his country or sacrifice the woman he loves. Some violence.Dr. No
By Ian Fleming. 1958
The mommy quest (Harlequin superromance ; #1334)
By Lori Handeland. 2006
Life has never been easy for Tim. Abandoned and left to fend for himself, he's finally found a home with…
Dean Luchetti. But something's missing - Tim thinks he needs a mother and Dean needs a wife, and he's got the perfect candidate in Stella O'Connell, his school's principal. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006. (Harlequin superromance ; 1334)The thief
By Ruth Rendell. 2006
What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you. Stealing things from people who had upset her was…
something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger, Polly does what she always does - she steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results. 2006.Cleanskin (Quick reads)
By Val McDermid. 2006
When career criminal Jack Farrell's body is found washed up on a Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like…
a clear-cut case. Heartbroken at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself-- good riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID. Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farrell's enemies are being killed. And the horrific manner of their deaths makes drowning look like a day at the beach. 2006.A judgement in stone
By Ruth Rendell. 1978
The author alternates between a journalistic dissection of the mass murder and a dramatic evocation of character to tell the…
story of the suburban Coverdales, their maid, Eunice, and Eunice's friend, a former prostitute turned religious fanatic.Detective Cross: Bookshots (Alex Cross #2)
By James Patterson. 2017
Uncontracted braille. James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. "The suspect is your patient, Dr. Cross." An anonymous caller has…
promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife, Bree Stone, uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late....