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Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
While her sister-in-law prepares to deliver her baby, Minnesota bakery owner Hannah Swensen's brother-in-law runs for sheriff, but Hannah discovers the body of the local sheriff in a dumpster near her cooking class with some of her cupcake frosting on his shirt. Includes recipes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of love stories, a heartfelt romance about a widower sheriff and divorced schoolteacher searching for a second chance at love--only to be threatened by long-held secrets of their small town.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah...
3) Godfall
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Series
Publisher
Nebraska
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A three-mile-long humanoid alien has crashed into Earth in western Nebraska. Seemingly dead, the extraterrestrial lies in a field just outside of the small, quiet town of Little Springs. The man forced to keep order in this chaos is a small-town sheriff whose job becomes far bigger than that, especially when a series of brutal murders begins"--
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Series
Language
English
Description
Sheriff James McPherson was eager to hire a schoolteacher, but Dr. Molly Whitcomb isn't what he expected. His instincts about people--which rarely miss the mark--tell him she's hiding something. And when Molly's secret is revealed, her reinvented life begins to unravel. What's more, she risks losing her newfound relationship with the sheriff and her renewed faith in God.
Author
Series
Finding Sanctuary volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"In the small town of Sanctuary, Missouri, Sarah has finally found a peace absent from her childhood as an orphan; when her sister suddenly reappears--only to disappear again--can Deputy Sheriff Paul Gleason help solve the mystery that's still haunting her?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Silhouette
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
She wanted his baby...and he wanted her. Don't miss this beloved classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller.
Meg McKettrick longs for a baby-husband optional. Perfect father material is gorgeous Brad O'Ballivan, old flame and new owner of his family's ranch in Stone Creek. But Meg-as strong, proud and stubborn as her ancestors on Indian Rock's Triple M ranch-wants to do things her way...the McKettrick way. And Brad feels...
8) Killer view
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
A dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may have something in common as Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming follows threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun Valley to expose a masterfully planned domestic terrorist attack.
9) Wool
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Series
Language
English
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
Author
Series
Virtues and vices of the old west volume 1
Language
English
Description
Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope of romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with the restoration of a dilapidated boarding house in order to support herself. Despite her desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local sheriff with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life.
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Sheriff Ben Marsden of Branding Iron, Texas has no plans to attend the annual Christmas Ball until a pretty newcomer comes to town and gets involved in the planning. Jessica Ramsey's relatives seem to be in jail more than out, and Ben tells himself that's why he needs to keep an eye on her. As Jessica moves ahead to open a bed-and-breakfast with her mother, the future starts looking merry and bright.
12) Cold blooded
Author
Series
Hell's Half Acre volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Sheriff Jess Casey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible: taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas. But now the politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Casey's town than hanging 'em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open: freed outlaws, gunslingers, rapists, drifters and miscreants are roaming Hell's Half Acre. And Casey and his deputies...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
It might be said that both Jim Currys were the victims of fate. Jim Curry the elder had an unsavory reputation, but he only got into bad trouble when, demonstrating a slick piece of gun play to Dad Jackson, he accidentally killed him. Wanting to do the right thing, Jim Curry the elder rode into town to explain what happened to Sheriff Mason, and though the sheriff accepted his explanation, he insisted Jim be locked up to await trial. Then the real...
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Series
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Description
Robert is not like his father, the legendary Brazos Fortune. Not a businessman like his brother Todd. Not a notoriuos retired gunslinger like his brother Sam. Nor the social darling of the Black Hills like little sister, Dacee June.
15) All these bodies
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s in the Midwest, a serial killer has been draining their victims of blood, leaving them otherwise undisturbed in their cars and homes. When a fifteen-year-old girl is found covered in blood amidst the latest corpses, she confides only in the sheriff's son but her story is unbelievable at best.
16) Rescue me
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Series
Montana rescue volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Deputy Sam Brooks and impulsive, bleeding heart Willow are thrown together in Glacier National Park, they must work together to save their lives and those of several frightened teenagers.
Deputy Sam Brooks believes Sierra Rose is the perfect girl for him. Safe, practical, and organized, she's nothing like her hippie, impulsive, bleeding heart sister, Willow. He doesn't know Willow's been in love with him for years. To purge Sam from her heart,...
17) The innocent
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Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she receives word from the Union Army that her husband is missing. The war ends without further word. Now penniless, in debt, and forced from her home, Carlyn seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill ... [and] is just settling into life as a sister in the Shaker village when she receives a devastating letter confirming her worst fears. As she wrestles...
Author
Series
Caleb York western volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"It starts with an abusive, drunken young scoundrel who resists arrest, holds a barmaid hostage, and gets what he deserves from the blazing .44 of Sheriff Caleb York. The New Mexico lawman doesn't regret taking such deadly action, but the late youth's powerful mother, cattle baroness Victoria Drummond, seems bound to feel differently. To York's surprise, Victoria takes the news with stoic resignation - all she asks of him is a favor: help her convince...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"A killer blizzard sweeping across the Southwest threatens the livelihoods of everyone in the town of Trinidad. But it's two gunshots that fell Sheriff Caleb York's unlucky deputy. As sure as the blood pooling in the snow, York knows it was a case of mistaken identity. The bullets were meant for him. It's the first nasty step in a plan rustled up by former Quantrill's Raider Luke "Burn 'Em" Burnham--eliminate the law, corral a team to rob a bank in...
20) Ghost medicine
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Still mourning the recent death of his mother, seventeen-year-old Troy Stotts relates the events of the previous year when he and his two closest friends try to retaliate against the sheriff's son, who has been bullying them for years.