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Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Heir to the Duncan and Zuniga crime family fortunes, Nevada Duncan must attend the world's most elite school for the children of underworld figures where he learns the importance of friendship as an enemy who wants what Nevada has lurks in the shadows.
82) Murder book
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a 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 fifteen years earlier. To her, he can't say no. Brought in as a consultant to determine if the racketeering is severe enough to require an...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 24
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you...
Author
Series
Veronica Mars mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books, A division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"The first book in an original mystery series featuring twenty-eight-year-old Veronica Mars, back in action after the events of Veronica Mars: The Movie. With the help of old friends--Logan Echolls, Mac Mackenzie, Wallace Fennel, and even Dick Casablancas--Veronica is ready to take on Neptune's darkest cases with her trademark sass and smarts. Final title and cover to be announced"--
85) Lethal people
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Former CIA assassin Donovan Creed is pursuing his latest love interest when he discovers a severely burned girl. Soon, Creed's suspicions about what hurt the girl lead to a deadly confrontation.
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
At fifty-nine, facing a dull and lonely future, Phillip Vail yearns for a way to put vigor and purpose into his remaining years. Then he finds the Mafia. While riding a commuter train, enjoying a chat with a younger woman sitting next to him, he encounters three violent drunks. Phil is powerless and terrified but the woman is neither; her father is the caporegime of New York's Sforza crime family and a quick call brings her three mobster brothers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Prosecutor Dani Fox has handled some gruesome homicide cases, but her investigation into the brutal murder of a local Mafia capo's daughter goes from tricky to downright dangerous. Although the victim has ties to the New Jersey Mafia, she was also secretly engaged in an affair with someone from a rival New York crime family. As if squaring off against two powerful crime families weren't enough, Dani suspects that the murder is more than a simple...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Antonio M. Lugo Olea supo encender la imaginación y la esperanza de millones de mexicanos ofreciendo una lucha frontal contra la corrupción, la impunidad y la delincuencia organizada. También prometió hacer lo posible por terminar con la pobreza, la marginación y la injusticia. Los ciudadanos, hartos de gobiernos de ineptos y ladrones, con su voto llevaron a AMLO a la presidencia del país. Por si fuera poco, su partido también consiguió una...
Author
Series
Junior Bender mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"It's the week before Christmas in Tinsel Town, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem. Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer for LA's various underworld bosses. The murderous Russian gangster who owns the mall hires Junior to look into the shoplifting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"When he hears residents of a Newark neighborhood are getting sick--and even dying--from a strange disease, investigative reporter Carter Ross dives into the story--so deep he comes down with the illness himself. With even more motivation to track down the source of the disease, Carter soon hits upon a nearby construction site. But when the project's developer is found dead, and his mob ties surface, Carter knows he's looking at a story much bigger--and...
91) Double down
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Veteran thieves Nolan and Jon discover that their flight home with their ill-gotten spoils is being skyjacked while a mob-connected family in Iowa believes the thieves and stop the plane from being rerouted for a six-figure fee.
92) Widows' revenge
Author
Series
Widows (Lynda La Plante) volume 2
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off - at the cost of their lives. But though they may be in the money, they're far from easy street. Shocked by her husband's betrayal, Dolly discovers Harry Rawlins isn't dead. He knows where the four women are and he wants them to pay. And he doesn't just mean getting his hands on the money. The women can't keep running....
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores, S. A
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
94) The Bronx
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Caesar knew the peace he started had an expiration date, but he never thought the end would be so explosive. With the Pact completely dissolved and the Chinese angered beyond measure at the loss of their leader, they want Boogie's head bloody and served on a stick. Caesar is willing to protect him at all costs, even if it puts him at odds with the allies still on his side"--
95) Whitehavens
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's not easy being the head of a feared crime dynasty. Donny Apostolis and his family are at war with the powerful Ziyades, determined to stop them muscling in on the Apostolis empire. Fortunately, Donny has Brodie. Brodie is loyal. He's also Donny's hitman. He does what he's told, which is why he's agreed to take Donny's young nephew with him on his next job. But when Brodie finds his target, he gets a call that changes everything - and his mission...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Alex Mahan is married to his high school sweetheart, Taylor. They have two daughters and a beautiful home, and Alex's startup business is about to explode thanks to private funding from his father-in-law, Joe. All is perfect--until Joe is abducted and murdered during a family trip in Mexico. Alex's world is about to be turned upside down. He can't bear to tell his grieving wife why. The man they've both idolized has been keeping secrets. As Alex...
Author
Publisher
Chivers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. Five people - four men and a woman - have a master plan to steal the million-dollar payroll carried by an armoured truck. The truck is a new, extremely secure design. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn't be interested? The only catch is that it's the very definition of impossible... or is it? Morgan, the leader of the gang, is convinced that, because...
99) Black scorpion: the Tyrant reborn : a novel of Fabrizio Boccardi's bestselling character the Tyrant
Author
Series
Michael Tirrano novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A new enemy has surfaced in Eastern Europe in the form of an all-powerful organization called Black Scorpion. Once a victim of human trafficking himself, the shadowy group's crazed leader, Vladimir Dracu, has become the mastermind behind the scourge's infestation on a global scale. And now he's set his sights on Michael Tiranno for reasons birthed in a painful secret past that have scarred both men. [...] Black Scorpion has also taken the woman Michael...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Mario Puzo's novel, "The Godfather," continues the saga of the Corleone family, beginning in 1955 and recounting the events that occurred between the end of the original novel and the episodes chronicled in Coppola's movie sequels.
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