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Author
Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Science fiction and crime go hand-in-tentacle, if you'll pardon the expression. Many of the science fiction field's greatest writers also wrote mysteries...and vice versa. And sometimes the science fiction stories were mysteries. Our latest MEGAPACK® contains nothing but those blended SF-and-Mystery stories, by some of the greatest writers in the field. Included are:
ORIGINS OF GALACTIC LAW, by Edward Wellen
DragNeuroNet, by John Gregory
...2) Snowdrops
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
An intense psychological drama that echoes sophisticated entertainments like Gorky Park and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Nick Platt is a British lawyer working in Moscow in the early 2000s—a place where the cascade of oil money, the tightening grip of the government, the jostling of the oligarchs, and the loosening of Soviet social mores have led to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The author demonstrates how his years as a crime reporter in Florida and Los Angeles contributed to the creation of vivid details in his novels, of not only the villains and heroes, but of the investigations and stranger-than-fiction crime scenes.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 3
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When feisty teenaged thief Kat's on-again off-again boyfriend, Hale, suddenly inherits his family's billion dollar company, Kat gets a tip-off that the will is a fake.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
10) Dragon on trial
Author
Series
The menagerie (Tui Sutherland) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Someone or something has murdered the goose who laid the golden eggs, and the evidence points to a dragon named Scratch. But this mystery won't be that easy to solve. Zoe and Logan are back on the case in another exciting fantasy adventure.
11) King City
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Language
English
Description
"Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption...turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he's exiled to patrol a beat in King City's deadliest neighborhood...with no backup, no resources, and no hope of survival. Now Wade fights to tame the lawless, poverty-stricken wasteland while investigating a string of brutal murders of young women. It's a case that takes him...
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Steve is investigating a diamond heist but the case suddenly changes when the author of the Bailey Brothers detective novels writes him a letter to say that he fears for his life.
13) The genius wars
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old genius Cadel Piggot Greenaus sets aside his new, crime-free life when his best friend Sonja is attacked, and he crosses oceans and continents trying to track down his nemesis Prosper English, breaking whatever rules he must.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Desperado Detectives--aka Mo Lo Beau and her best friend Dale, along with newly-appointed intern, Harm Crenshaw--must take on a new case when Dale's daddy goes on the lam just before his trial is about to start"--
15) The Pickle King
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
During an endlessly rainy summer in the town of Elbow, twelve-year-old Bea and her misfit friends solve an unlikely mystery involving an unidentified dead man who is missing an eye, an evil surgeon, a ring shaped like an old castle, a bag of smelly intestines, and a helpful ghost.
16) Cruel summer
Author
Series
Criminal volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives" --Amazon.
Author
Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the 1989 earthquake, Ethan takes a trip to San Francisco to search for a missing woman. But almost immediately he finds himself going down a path of darkness and murder in her wake, in a case unlike anything he's faced before"--
18) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
Author
Series
Real pigeons volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With the Real Pigeons World Wild Network, more pigeons are fighting crime than ever before! But that doesn't mean the squad can rest. There are still thieves to catch and endangered birds to protect! But what will the Real Pigeons do when they find a traitor in their own nest?!
Author
Series
Real pigeons volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Real Pigeons, crime-fighting heroes that are ready for anything, wonder who will protect them when they don't know how to swim.
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