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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.
2) Friction
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Holly, ambitious and confident, temporarily occupies the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
Author
Series
Sunset Cove novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Kate Mason has always found solace in her family's blueberry barrens. But are they giving her a false sense of security? Kate has devoted herself to keeping her family's blueberry barrens thriving. But when blossom blight devastates her blueberry fields, she's forced to come up with alternative ways to replace that income. Fixing up the small cottage on her property as a rental seems an obvious choice, but it won't be enough. When Drake Carver drives...
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Language
English
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Description
Falsely convicted of bank robbery, drifter Johnny is sent to a rehabilitation program in the home of a California judge. He plans to be a model prisoner, get released early, and resume his mission to kill the man who wiped out his family fifteen years ago. He hadn't planned on Ragan, the judge's beautiful housekeeper. Can Johnny let go of his anger and embrace a new life?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her mainly, and the world. But Nicolas,...
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 4
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Pastor Ed Markham calls on Magnolia Investigations and shows Meredith and Julia an old ledger dating back to the founding of Savannah. When someone breaks into the pastor's homes and steals the ledger, Meredith and Julia must solve both a historic mystery and a modern-day theft.
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 8
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During a tour of historic homes, Meredith and Julia meet Cora Chisholm, a wealthy Savannah matron who is in need of their services. She asks Magnolia Investigations to find the history of five children who were sold during the Great Depression.
10) The hidden gate
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meredith Bellefontaine left her job as president of the Savannah historical society and reopened her late husband's investigation agency with her best friend, and retired juvenile court judge, Julia Foley. Julia accidentally discovers their first case with a rusty key that unlocks the secrets of a 64-year-old murder case.
11) Double trouble
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 3
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meredith sees a mysterious man lurking around her home who bares an uncanny resemblance to her late husband. At the same time, the newly reveled 1733 diary of one of the first women to settle Savanah, which might contain clues to the location of Blackbeard's treasure, is stolen. Meredith and Julia are on the case.
12) Livid
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 20
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Julia and Meredith's friend Tasha is accued of steaing a set of handbells from the Savannah Historical Museum, Julia and Meredith investigate. Meanwhile, Julia has taken on too many Christmas projects and is feeling stretched thin.
14) A bone to pick
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 16
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Julia and Meredith don't normally take missing dog cases, but change their minds when they see the exorbitant fee offered by the owners. As the investigation unfolds, the case seems less like a dog that slipped away and more like a swipe at the owner's billion-dollar tech business.
15) Buried secrets
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 21
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two family vaults at the historic Colonial Park Cemetery have been broken in to, causing thousands of dollars of damage. Police dismiss the vandalism as a teenage prank, by chair of the cemetery board, Quin Crowley, does not agree. He hires Magnolia Investigations to look deeper into the incident. Meredith and Julia must sift through rumors and legends surrounding the cemetery to dig up the buried secrets each vault contains.
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 10
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Magnolia Investigations is called up to help sculptor Iris Floros find her granddaughter Helen, who might be the elusive artist that has hit Savanah's art scene. Meanwhile, Julia is surprised when her flighty sister Cassie returns home to help their injured mother.
Author
Series
Westward to home volume 3
Publisher
WhiteFire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Fresh out of finishing school, Julianne Blackstone is eager to return to her sister's ranch in Colorado, but her parents have other plans. Plans that involve money, matrimony...and mayhem. While helping in her mother's chic dress shop, Julianne rekindles an old friendship with young attorney Levi Stanfield and his father Judge Stanfield. But when she discovers her father's self-serving plans are at odds with the law, her own life is placed in peril....
18) True grits
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 18
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Savannah's best restaurants are throwing a True Grits competition, with each restaurant presenting their most popular grits recipe. But someone has replaced the paprika with ground ghost peppers in all the entries except the entery from Charlene Jackson's diner. Now, Julia and Meredith must prove Charlene's innocence and find the real saboteur.
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 7
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meredith and Julia have been called in by the Worthington family to untangle the complicated web of family members who are entitled to inherit part of Wilhelmina Styles Worthington's fortune. The investigators soon discover that identifying the true heirs may be more dangerous than they anticipated.
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 17
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Meredith and Julia investigate the vandalism of local artist and beekeeper Nikki Williams's apiaries. The mystery may have decades-old roots that began during World War II. Meanwhile, Meredith tries to support her grandson Kaden as he faces bullies at school.
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