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81) Shattered
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Nine years ago, Kate Grayhawk Pendleton walked into Wyatt Shaw's life--and out of it the next morning. Now Wyatt's back--and has the power to shatter Kate's future with the man she loves. By reputation, Wyatt Shaw is a brutal killer who always gets what he wants. And he wants Kate and her twin eight-year old sons. Texas Ranger Jack McKinley is hot on Wyatt Shaw's trail. The presumed heir to the D'Amato crime syndicate is threatening to steal the...
82) Hardcase
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Former private detective Joe Kurtz finds himself in over his head when semi-retired crime boss Don Byron Farino hires him to find the New York mob's missing accountant, a man with far too much knowledge of the Family business.
84) Against the law
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Strip club bouncer and retired Special Forces operative Joe Brody, who moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in New York, must take out a shadowy figure named Zahir who has been invading the mob's territories to sell a powerful new brand of heroin.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident,...
86) Live by night
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent...
88) The predators
Author
Series
Predators volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Predators takes you on an odyssey through the gaudy and reckless life of Jerry Cooper; from his struggles to survive in depression-time New York to war-torn Europe; and his life in organised crime; and finally his entrance into the exclusive world of Plesscassier, the premier purveyor of vintage French spring water. Plesscassier is owned by Jean Pierre Martine, whose all-consuming greed is rivaled only by his unbridled sexual desires. However,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A TEMPEST IN A C-CUP Nora's next journalistic assignment: the unveiling of the most miraculous bra in fashion history. But before Nora can hand in her uplifting story, her boss is found shot execution-style and trussed up in expensive panty hose--an Abruzzo family trademark. Now Nora must find the killer before her innocent lover takes the rap. That means shadowing the most glamorous suspects in Philadelphia--including a bad-boy designer, a former...
90) The stone monkey
Author
Language
English
Description
Recruited to help the FBI and the INS perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amerlia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants.�
Author
Series
Trust me volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Having learned to be a master con artist from her father, Julep Dupree pays expenses at her exclusive high school by fixing things for fellow students, but she will need their help when her father disappears.
92) The redeemers
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"One of the best crime writers at work today."--Michael Connelly The electrifying new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins's acclaimed series about the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless--voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he's got one...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
New York, 1933. The crime families have prospered in the Depression, but with the coming end of Prohibition a battle is looming... one which will determine which organizations will rise, and which will face a violent end. Vito Corleone pushes his oldest child, teenaged Sonny, to be a businessman. But Sonny-- impatient and reckless-- wants to become a part of the real family business.
96) Inside man
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Sam Capra's best customer--and friend--is murdered outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. Determined to find out the connection between his friend's death and a beautiful stranger, Sam infiltrates the Ligeras, one of Miami's most prominent--and dangerous-families. He faces a powerful but unstable mastermind intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different children, who may hold murderous secrets of their own....
98) Leopard's blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Taking over a crime syndicate in Louisiana, leopard shifter Joshua Tregre, whose fighting skills are unrivaled, doesn't stand a chance when he meets his new neighbor, whose fierce determination and beauty lead him down the path of temptation. --Publisher
100) The good deed
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jon Harper has spent years distancing himself from his family and the family liquor business just outside of Washington DC. But when his mother's home is raided and his sister is arrested for gun running and drug trafficking, the life he thought he'd left behind comes crashing in. Soon both organized crime and the FBI threaten his carefully constructed world, his own thriving business and even the life of the child he's fought to save. Jon struggles...