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Author
Series
Gentleman bastard novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fantasy meets crime caper in the first book of a landmark, enduringly popular epic series about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin has called “fresh, original, and engrossing . . . gorgeously realized.”
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist....
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist....
3) Don't blink
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When gemologist Gina Gallo finds a body in the trunk of her car and another is delivered to her cousin Nico's store, Gina finds the clues leading back to her retired relatives living at the Holy Cannoli Retirement Home.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one. As Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
You'd think, now that she's off the hook for murder, that Alison, an English professor at a cushy college campus just north of chaotic New York City, would be able to relax. But how can she, with a wedding in the works? A Ph.D can only go so far…
The recently-divorced Alison couldn't be happier for her best friend, the bride Max. The problem is with the groom. Namely, his best man: the stunningly handsome yet technically married NYPD homicide...
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 30
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When logger Decker Galloway sets his sights -- and axes and saws -- on a lakeshore village inhabited by Norwegian settlers, Preacher and his friend, the warrior Tall Dog, remind the Norwegians of their Viking ancestry and declare war on Galloways' gang of bloodthirsty gunslingers.
11) The burning girl
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Enmeshed in a case involving a contract killer and a turf war between organized crime bosses, detective Thom Thorne discovers a disturbing link between both cases and a ring of protection rackets.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Luna--or depending on who's asking, Rose--is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Distilled in Texas and the Delta, a straight-no-chaser crime novel set around the legendary Dixie Mafia
Manfred Eugene "Hog" Webern, a retired Dallas County deputy sheriff, is talked into going undercover in Biloxi, Mississippi, in a multistate effort to nail a group of traveling Southern criminals who have been tagged by the press with the lurid name "Dixie Mafia." After making contact with the gang's nominal leader, the notorious Jasper Sparks,...
Author
Publisher
Three Waters Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's the era of Capone and Dillinger, when gangsters ruled St. Paul. Two thugs, Sly and Eightball, want to move up in the ranks. They betray their boss, form an uneasy alliance, and kidnap a priest, hoping he can decipher a rare document that will lead them to riches beyond their dreams. The mob and a crooked cop are out for blood and will do everything in their power to stop them.
15) Gone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hitman Anders, recently out of prison, is doing small jobs for the big gangsters. Then his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who also happens to be an atheist), and a homeless receptionist at a former brothel which is now a one-star hotel. The three join forces and concoct an unusual business plan based on Hitman Anders' skills and his fearsome reputation. The vicar and receptionist will organize jobs for a group...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing an assault by a member of one of Calabria's crime families and discovering that the police do not care, a young Englishman begins a pursuit that leads him to a delicate surveillance operation, setting off alarms in multiple countries.
19) Public enemy #1
Author
Publisher
DAFINA, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Too much to prove... A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khlo�e Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name -- and really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia's toughest streets... Too much to hide... When a narcotics detective's widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced husband's so-called...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 20
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In his exciting twentieth mystery, hardboiled detective Amos Walker is hired to help free a mobster who once tried to kill Barry Stackpole, Walker's only true friend.
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