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1) The client
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning a recent murder of a Louisiana Senator.
2) Judge & jury
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Nick Pellisante finally captures mob boss Dominic Cavello. Two of Cavello's former employees are ready to testify against him when he hires a killer to make sure the trial never concludes.
Author
Series
Melody Grace McCartney novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 241 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody's name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She's been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xviii, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In London's Hyde Park, there's a place called Speaker's Corner, where anyone can preach or shriek anything they like. There have been famous and brilliant people who've made speeches there, and there have been an awful lot of cranks, wackos, and madmen in the park, too. So, how do you tell the difference between a cautionary reporter of impending calamity from a madman off his meds? Too little skepticism risks falling down the rabbit hole into a twisted...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? Inspector Montalbano and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company. Meanwhile, a girl is found brutally murdered in Giovanni Strangio's apartment -- Giovanni has a flawless alibi, and it's no coincidence that Michel...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
El capo mafioso Albert Anastasia acaba de ser asesinado en Nueva York. Corre el mes de octubre de 1957, y se avecina una guerra por el control de los casinos habaneros. Joaquín, un joven periodista, decide investigar las conexiones de importantes personajes cubanos con el bajo mundo. En su búsqueda, comienza a frecuentar a un cuidador de fieras de zoológico, quien aparenta conocer las claves de una macabra conspiración, y se enamora de una mujer...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ex-FBI agent Riley Scott lives each day with the scars of her former career. After the murder of her husband and the recent attempt on her own life by the Russian mafia, her heart is irrevocably broken. Agate Island seems like the perfect place to begin building a new future for herself and her teenage son, yet even before the ferry docks at their new home, Riley realizes there will be no escape for her. There, on the boat, is mafia boss Maksimillian...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Work turns toxic for a Venice, Italy police detective in this novel in the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling series.
Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous trash piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across...
Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous trash piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across...
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancee by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protege, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last 40 years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording...
11) The witness
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she designs sophisticated security systems -- and supplements her own security...
12) The informant
Author
Series
Butcher's Boy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Married and living in England under the name Michael Schaeffer, the assassin known as the Butcher's Boy is the target of a Mafia hit team sent to exact revenge for his deadly campaign against the Balacontano family years earlier. Schaeffer kills all three attackers, but knows more will come, and needs to find whoever sent them to end it once and for all. Soon Elizabeth Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department,...
13) Analyze this
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spoof on the gangster roles that have been associated with De Niro's film career, this is the story of an anxiety-ridden Mafia boss who monopolizes the services of a family psychiatrist.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
I learned early that if you don’t want to go to school for a career . . . then this was the life. And there were rules. You better not drink, you better not be a big shot and you better always stay low and keep your mouth shut. If you’re going to play the game, you’ve got to play smart. Thus began Mario Facione’s slow descent into the Mafia world. With a desire to please his father, Facione kept the rules taught him -- don’t get caught,...
Author
Series
John Sutter volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
500 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aristocratic Wall Street lawyer John Sutter and his beautiful wife Susan are drawn into the violent world of the Mafia when Frank Bellarosa, a well-known, though never convicted gangster, moves with his family into the Sutter's high-class Long Island neighborhood.
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane Whitefield, a woman who helps people in trouble disappear, is propelled into the middle of horrific events when she agrees to help a young girl who is fleeing a deadly mafioso.
17) Casino
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of a crooked casino owner, his family and hoodlums due to drugs, sex, and betrayal.
18) Sleeping dogs
Author
Series
Butcher's Boy volume 2
Language
English
Description
He came to England to rest. He used to be the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man. Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime boss is brutally murdered. Despite all evidence...
20) GoodFellas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on a group of men involved with organized crime while giving an inside look at the Mafia from 1955-80. Based on the life of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood.
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