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Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
2) Murder book
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Mysterious Press edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting midwestern towns in this new thriller from the author of The Old Man When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization-but the attorney in question is Ellen Leicester, the wife who left him...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
4) Daylight
Author
Series
Atlee Pine volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed"--
5) The Russian
Author
Series
Rob Tacoma volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When criminals from the former Soviet Union establish a vicious underworld in the U.S., former Navy SEAL and CIA agent Rob Tacoma conducts a top-secret mission to neutralize the mob boss behind the murder of a CIA Special Ops leader.
Author
Series
City volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After fleeing to California to start a new life, Danny Ryan must decide whether he is going to do the FBI a favor that may make him a fortune or kill him.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that may be his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls"--
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Two criminal empires together control all of New England.
Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.
Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 24
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Reacher offers aid to an elderly couple only to be confronted by the most dangerous opponents of his career, and finds himself in the middle of a turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck volume 12
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
364 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences" -- Provided by publisher.
"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his...
12) W is for wasted
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 23
Language
English
Description
" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...
13) I am the Cheese
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
222 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
Author
Series
Danny Ryan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
Author
Publisher
[Macmillan Audio]
Pub. Date
[2019].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally...
16) Hero
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Mysterious Press edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
Author
Series
Sophie Brinkman volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
446 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Breaking her personal code to date a charming patient, Sophie Brinkmann discovers that he is the head of a powerful international crime organization warring against a ruthless German syndicate.
18) Daylight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed"--
19) World gone by
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of The Given Day and Live by Night, returns with a psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present. Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin's enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition...
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Language
English
Description
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...