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41) The Ice Harvest
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
When lawyer Charlie and his partner Vic steal from a mob boss, they think they've pulled off the perfect crime. But when they race through a night filled with mayhem, lust and lethal surprises, they realize that the biggest risk they'll take will be trusting each other.
43) Mad librarian
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
When the city cuts off funding for her library, Serenity Hammer embezzles from a neglected city fund to keep her library alive. The fund turns out to be a huge secret fund channeling all corruption and political funds for the state. Now Serenity has the money to build the library of her dreams, if she can spend the money fast--and stay alive.
44) Big trouble
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A slapstick thriller set in Florida, featuring oddball characters. They include a homeless man who lives in a tree, a student with a squirt gun playing a game called Killer, a couple of real killers, and a terrorist with a nuclear bomb in a suitcase.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
Isabel Spellman, PI, is used to being followed, extorted, and questioned - all occupational hazards of working at her family's firm, Spellman Investigations. Her little sister, Rae, once tailed Izzy for weeks on end to discover the identity of Izzy's boyfriend. Her mother, Olivia, once blackmailed Izzy with photographic evidence of Prom Night 1994. It seemed that Spellman vigilance would dissipate after Izzy was fired for breaching client confidentiality,...
Author
Series
Jewel novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Bounty hunter Jake Harlowe knows how to track a criminal. So when a group of swindled shareholders hire him to trail their former CEO, Jake expects a quick trip to the Cayman Islands to close another case. Until a devastatingly beautiful woman gets in the way. Steph Anderson is visiting the Caymans for a rock climbing and dive trip--or so she tells Jake. She's really trying to find out whether or not her stepfather embezzled money from his company....
49) Sorority boys
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A trio of frat boys are accused of embezzlement by their frat brothers and kicked out. They quickly find themselves with only one option if they wish to remain on campus rent-free and nab the real culprits: the sorority Delta Omicron Gamma (D.O.G.). Undergoing physical transformations, the boys are soon passing themselves off as Daisy, Adina, and Roberta. Dave (a.k.a. "Daisy") falls in love with Leah, the head of the sorority, forcing him to confess...
50) Deadly lies
Author
Series
Kylie Hatfield volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
“Family is everything...unless they want you dead. Sweet little Emma Jennings is certain someone is robbing her vast estate, and she wants Kylie Hatfield on the case. Sure, an embezzlement case might be boring—boring and Kylie don’t mix—but Kylie feels for the octogenarian and pledges to right the wrong. She’s certain that she can. She’s just been promoted to Assistant PI of Starr Investigations, after all. When embezzlement turns to murder,...
51) Regrets only
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in LA, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron -- and now she's broke and homeless and living with her widowed mother and eight year old daughter, Izzy, in her hometown of Piermont, Connecticut: land...
52) House privilege
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She's also the goddaughter of the newly elected Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, and Mahoney becomes her legal guardian. Normally, Mahoney would send his kind-hearted wife to deal with his new ward, but she's unavailable so he dispatches his fixer, Joe DeMarco, to make sure the girl's okay. DeMarco's job...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long, and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. From jealous children to gold-digging girlfriends, Dismas has his work cut out...
56) Sagebrush bandit
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Rocky Jeanette and two accomplices robbed the Boulder City bank. When Rocky learns that the amount reported stolen was about five times what they took, he knows the banker, Charles Oatman, must have embezzled the rest. Rocky returns to Boulder City and blackmails Oatman to introduce him as a respectable businessman, but old habits die hard"--
57) Dead water
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable journey of death and murder.
59) The cutting edge
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Can love survive the ultimate test? - Brett Rutland, Carter Engineerings top troubleshooter, is sent to the L.A. office to crack a case of embezzlement. Bretts a hard man, so it hit him like a sledgehammer when he fell in love with Tessa Conway. Half the men in the office had been in love with her for years, but Brett was the first shed loved in return. Their love is perfect, too perfect to last. And when Brett discovers the identity of the embezzler,...