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English
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The Smell of the Night, the sixth mystery in the international bestselling series featuring Inspector Montalbano, brings the shady shenanigans of late twentieth-century international finance to small-town Sicily.
Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money and a young man who worked for him. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine financial scam, he finds
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In the gripping new novel from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked -- despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to leave Albany and work in a major law firm in Manhattan. Feeling a need for roots, she buys...
Author
Series
Rachel Knight novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide. In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with her best girlfriend, LAPD detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey interview students at the high school, they realize that the facts don't...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Tom Fairchild is a man with a past he can't shake. He's struggling to make it as a graphic artist, but his probation officer thinks he belongs in jail. Then millionaire Miami real estate developer Stuart Barlowe offers him fifty thousand dollars to travel to Italy with his daughter Allison, a map expert and Tom's childhood love, to duplicate a rare Renaissance map. But Tom soon suspects that Barlowe wants a forgery, not a duplicate. He just doesn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Montalbano wakes from strange dreams to find a gruesomely bludgeoned horse carcass in front of his seaside home. When his men come to investigate, the carcass disappears, leaving only a trail in the sand. Before long, two people report missing horses - Rachele, a champion equestrian, an Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily. Then Montalbano's home is broken into and is ransacked and he is certain that the crimes are linked. As he negotiates the...
Author
Series
Liars Society volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's...
Author
Series
Glass and Steele novels volume 2
Publisher
URHOBO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
USA TODAY BESTSELLER When an apprentice from the Mapmakers' Guild goes missing, Matt and India are employed to find him. Going undercover as a married couple, they discover that not everyone at the guild is what they seem, and the lad's unearthly maps caused jealousy, suspicion and fear. With one of the apprentice's magic maps in their possession, India and Matt must use their wits and India's fledgling, untried magic to find him. But the more they...
10) Pi
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market, while being pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination and a Kaballah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts.
11) Two to tango
Author
Series
Nick Madrid mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Speck Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
13) Dirty Harry
Publisher
Warner Home Videos
Pub. Date
1971
Language
English
Description
In a signature role, Clint Eastwood plays a streetwise San Francisco police detective who gets the job done in one of the best police thrillers ever made, Dirty Harry by Don Siegel. Then he stars in and directs Absolute Power, a crisp, finely acted caper based on David Baldacci's best seller. Finally, Eastwood is a conflicted lawman walking the line separating him from the man he strives to be and the man he is in Tightrope, directed by Richard Tuggle....
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Drama about an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical-genius brother to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Inspired by actual events, the series depicts how the confluence of police work and mathematics provides unexpected revelations and answers to the most perplexing criminal questions.
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