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Pub. Date
2022
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There’s cash missing from a local charity thrift shop—lots of it. And when it looks like her surrogate grandma might be accused, there’s nothing for Charlie to do but take a job there and try to catch the thief from the inside and clear Elsa’s name. As she and Elsa begin tracking the missing money, it becomes obvious that the shop is a little goldmine and there are a number of people who could easily be after the money.She’s narrowing down...
42) Easy meat
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Series
Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
A novel on youth violence in Britain, the villain being a 15-year-old boy specializing in robbing the old. Soon after his arrest he is found hanging, then the investigating police officer is killed. Inspector Resnick sets out to find the connection. A social novel as well as a mystery. By the author of Cold Light.
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Charlie and his friends unite to rescue Ollie, a boy who was turned invisible and made to live in the attics at Bloor's Academy more than a year ago, but they are hindered by a mysterious new student who lives with Charlie's aunts.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland. They are wrong. For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into thin air. There is just one...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone -- ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk -- has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist,...
47) The lovers
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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Charlie Parker is haunted by a man and a woman who appear to have only one purpose: to end to Parker's existence.
48) A book of bones
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"Charlie Parker returns in this heart-pounding thriller as he seeks revenge against the darkest forces in the world. Three bodies are found. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call."--
49) Every Dead Thing
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Tormented by guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie 'Bird' Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to find a missing girl. The search leads him into an abyss of evil and he is warned that The Travelling Man will strike again.
50) A Game of Ghosts
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for...
51) The furies
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Private investigator Charlie Parker is unwittingly drawn into a world of vengeance ... two separate -- but vitally connected -- investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career. In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, Maine, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers -- the enigmatic sisters Strange. And in the title novel, The Furies,...
52) Little face
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When Alice leaves her infant daughter at home with her husband David for the first time since becoming a new mother, she returns to a horrifying sight: her daughter, Florence, has been swapped with another baby. No one... not even David... believes her.
53) Iron river
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This time around, Hood is running the California-Mexico border with the ATF, searching for the iron river, the massive and illegal flow of handguns and automatic weapons that fuels the bloody cartel wars south of the border. Gunrunners by nature aren't exactly ethical, but the lengths they'll go to, and the innocent lives they'll risk, are shocking even to Hood. Most shocking of all is the close personal connection Hood finds wrapped up in events...
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Series
Charlie and Mouse volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lost and found things are the theme of the day, from Mouse's missing blanket, to a large friendly dog (which Kittenhead does not like), and finally a puppy (which Kittenhead prefers).
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Charlie faces his most dangerous adventure yet when the shadow from the Red King's portrait escapes. Strange things start to happen at Bloor's Academy. A mysterious force, however, is helping Charlie get closer to the truth about his father.
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Bradley Jones, a deputy in the L.A. sheriff's department who's been transporting drugs for a Mexican cartel since he was 17, turns to fellow deputy Hood for help after henchmen of a rival cartel kidnap Jones's pregnant wife, Erin. If Jones doesn't pay the rival cartel's leader, Benjamin Armenta, a million within 10 days as an apology for the trouble he's caused Armenta, Armenta will have Erin skinned alive.
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Charlie's parents have left him (again). This time they are off to South Africa to help giant golden moles. And Charlie? He's been dumped with his TV-obsessed grandparents. Lonely and curious, Charlie heads to the village of Castle-on-the-Hudson, where a frightened old woman gives him a desperate message-in sign language. When the woman suddenly disappears, Charlie is determined to find answers. Frog, who is Deaf, would rather be solving crimes than...