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1) Murder list
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to attend a seminar as a favor to a reporter friend, Regan Madison takes part in an exercise in which guests identify those who have hurt them, but the exercise takes a lethal turn when those on her list begin to turn up dead.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any moment, Jodie knows she stands to lose everything. It's...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The remaining employees at an office affected by a business downturn spend their time enjoying secret romances, elaborate pranks, and frequent coffee breaks, while trying to make sense of their only remaining "work," a mysterious pro-bono ad campaign.
4) Storm front
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When thirteen high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra, and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.
8) Darling
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a modern reimagining of "Peter Pan," Wendy Darling meets a boy named Peter on her first night in Chicago, where they run through the city's underground and encounter a punk named Tinkerbelle, the lost boys that Peter watches over, and the frightening Detective Hook.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The daughter of notorious, high-profile thief Bobby Rose, journalist Sophie Rose leaves her job at a major Chicago newspaper for a small local paper, but when she stumbles into the middle of a bizarre story, she follows the trail of the mystery north to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, accompanied by a bodyguard, Jack Prescott, a sexy FBI agent.
10) Death masks
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 5
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
2009, c2003
Language
English
Description
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen Shroud of Turin. But first, Harry must deal with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, professional hit men, and the return of his semi-vampire former girlfriend.
12) Die twice
Author
Series
David Trevellyan thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Summoned to the British consulate in Chicago after his previous mission compels him to leave New York City, David Trevellyan is assigned to track down a rogue agent who has murdered Trevellyan's new handler, a case that exposes dangerous system vulnerabilities.
Author
Series
Japantown mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
15) Just this once
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As heir to a chain of luxury hotels, Sean Wyse III always gets what he wants. So when he sees a freeloading roommate taking advantage of his spunky best friend, Molly Brandt, he doesnt hesitate to step in. He kicks out the roommateand moves himself in. Molly loves quality time with Sean, but spending nights with him one wall away threatens to wake the crush she thought shed gotten over. A crush Sean knows nothing about, which might be a problemconsidering...
16) Summer Knight
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 4
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Despondent over the loss of his vampire girlfriend, private detective and wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden undertakes a mission for the Winter Queen of Faerie to find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen of the crime.
17) Dead beat
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 7
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
19) Dark men
Author
Series
Silver bear thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Columbus has retired. or so he thinks. He and his lover, Risina, a mysterious rare-book dealer, have fled to a tiny Italian coastal village where no one knows their names. And yet Columbus has trouble letting go. His paranoia is justified when, one day, he notices a suspicious man following him, and within days he's back in Chicago trying to figure out why his old fence has been kidnapped and maybe even killed. The ransom note left behind demands...
20) Fool moon
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Called to Cook County hospital to deal with an enraged ghost, Harry Dresden, Chicago's resident wizard, is puzzled and disturbed not by the ghost's wrath but by the fact that someone had cast a torture spell on it, goading it into action. Harry's disturbance increases when he discovers that the same spell has been cast on one of his friends. Harry begins to realize that he and his friends may be targets of a vengeful spirit, and as he desperately...
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