The black tortoise / Ronald Tierney.
Peter Strand is half Chinese and half Cherokee and was adopted by an elderly white couple from Phoenix. Now he's a forensic accountant in San Francisco, where he's struggling with his identity.When his employer asks him to investigate a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, Strand meets a cast of quirky characters who all seem to be hiding a secret. Peter soon finds evidence of a probable fraud, but when fraud leads to murder, he's drawn deeper into a murky mystery.
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- ISBN: 9781459812406 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 131 pages: 19 cm.
- Publisher: Victoria, BC : Raven Books, 2017.
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Target Audience Note: | Fry reading level: 4.8. |
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Genre: | High interest-low vocabulary books. Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Decoda Literacy Library | 813.54 T54 2017 (Text) | 35410000057398 | General Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort St. John Campus | PE 1127 F5 T54 B53 2017 (Text) | 31512001010617 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
Mackenzie Public Library | AL 4 (Text) | 35192000315154 | Adult Learners | Volume hold | Available | - |
Smithers Public Library | LIT TIE (Text) | 35101000520093 | Adult Literacy | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Peter Strand is half Chinese and half Cherokee and was adopted by an elderly white couple from Phoenix. Now he's a forensic accountant in San Francisco, where he's struggling with his identity.When his employer asks him to investigate a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, Strand meets a cast of quirky characters who all seem to be hiding a secret. Peter soon finds evidence of a probable fraud, but when fraud leads to murder, he's drawn deeper into a murky mystery.