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Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie, is the last dragon on Earth and is hiding out in a Louisiana swamp. He strikes a deal with Cajun swamp rat Squib: Squib will keep him company and fetch supplies for him and Vern will protect Squib from the dirty cop that is chasing him. However, there will be soon be a firery reckoning, in which dragons wither finally become extinct or Ver's glory days are back.
3) 11th hour
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. Then she's called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired captain, Internal Affairs Bureau. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty...
7) Earth angels
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
A special gang unit of the Los Angeles police goes to far in their battle with the gangs of East Los Angeles.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the murder of his estranged police officer son on the day of his own release from prison, former bank robber Max Holman launches a renegade investigation and discovers that the chief suspect is being wrongfully targeted by the LAPD.
11) The judgment
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In Detroit, lawyer Charley Sloan investigates a bizarre series of murders of children. The killer is bathing their bodies, wrapping them in plastic and placing them in the snow, laid out like angels.
12) Dos minutos
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Publisher
Ediciones B
Language
Español
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"Si le preguntas a cualquiera que viva en el lado equivocado de la ley acerca de la regla de los dos minutos, dira que se trata del tiempo que uno tiene para cometer un atraco antes de que la policia aparezca. Romper la regla de los dos minutos supone pasar una temporada en prision. Pero no todo el mundo respeta las reglas del juego. Cuando el estafador Max Holman sale de la carcel, la libertad no le resulta tan dulce como pensaba. Lo unico que tiene...
13) Play dead
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Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Following a deep investigation into an incident in another Force, Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, uncovered an unpalatable truth: there is corruption in the ranks. Corruption which led to murder.
14) The identity man
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English
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When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, smalltime criminal Shannon goes on the run, receives an enigmatic text message, is captured and taken to a laboratory where he's given a new face, a new name, and a new life, courtesy of the mysterious "identity man," and finds work as a carpenter. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It seems that lots of crooked people--including cops, politicians, and gangsters--want...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.
16) Cold in hand
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
It's Valentine's Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl's father seeks to lay the blame on Resnick's partner, DI Lynn Kellogg, Resnick finds the line between the personal and the professional dangerously blurred. Meanwhile, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency starts to show a...
17) Turn a blind eye
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English
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"William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William's team, it threatens to compromise the whole investigation. Meanwhile,...
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Cat DeLuca mystery volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Chicago private eye Cat DeLuca, founder of the Pants on Fire Detective Agency, catches liars and cheats|and, from time to time, killers." --
Chicago private eye Cat DeLuca, founder of the Pants on Fire Detective Agency, was briefly married to runaround Johnnie Rizzo. Her experiences gave her the mad skills she needed for her agency: she only investigates cheating husbands. So why, when someone kidnaps Captain Bob's dog and claims to have evidence...
20) Memo from Turner
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Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions - who do know - leave the girl to die. The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate called Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law...
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