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41) Caught stealing
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Itś three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed. It begins when Hankś neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier....
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A South American crime lord has brought New York the worst lawlessness and violence the city has ever seen. Police shot in the street. Judges murdered in the courtroom. Mayhem is unleashed -- and the mayor demands that Detective Michael Bennett find a way to stop it. Bennett takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, out of the chaos on a much-needed vacation to upstate New York. But instead of escaping the violence, it follows...
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Over the course of his legal career Andy Carpenter has lost a few cases. But that doesn't mean he forgets his clients. Andy has always known that Joey Desimone, a man convicted of murder nine years ago, was innocent and believes that Joey's family's connections to organized crime played a pivotal role in his conviction. While there isn't much Andy can do for him while he serves out his prison sentence, Joey suggests that Andy visit Joey's uncle in...
Author
Series
Makana mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring... Makana is a former police inspector who fled for his life to Cairo from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and haunted by the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in no position to refuse him. Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune...
46) Day of reckoning
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 8
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox.
47) 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
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
When Sunny Randall is hired to protect Erin Flint, a rising movie star, she soon finds herself investigating the murder of Erin's sister.
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Language
English
Description
"Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappears. Olivia White has given ten...
50) Hostage
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Language
English
Description
An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately...
51) Absolution
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
401 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Father Jake Austin's father returns to town, decades after deserting him as a young boy. His dad is fleeing a drug lord. Although Jake detests his old man, he enlists the help of Sheriff Tremont Macon, who decides to place Jake's father into protective custody in jail. There, he learns that Jake's dad has stolen cocaine from the drug dealers. In an attempt to shut the drug ring down, the FBI asks Jake to be the bait in a sting operation. Will Jake...
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With...
53) Framed: a novel
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When Adriana Chambers observes a stranded motorist struggling to change his tire, she sees in his distress an opportunity to be a Good Samaritan. Pulling over, she offers her help -- but she gets much more than the satisfaction of serving. As the beautiful young college student finds herself the only witness to the man's whereabouts that morning, she is unwittingly drawn into a criminal investigation that tests her powers of deduction. The stranded...
Author
Series
Saint Squad novels volume 7
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
After years of hiding from her criminal family, Carina Channing is ready to start a new life in Virginia Beach. But cutting ties with the past proves impossible thanks to a mysterious key she received from her imprisoned father. After a warning visit from her uncle, Carina and her boyfriend, Navy SEAL Jay Wellman, begin an urgent search to discover the key's purpose before their enemies intercede. With their lives and shared future on the line, Carina...
55) Cari Mora
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed, and the consequences of dark obsession. Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harry Strand has left behind his career as a spy and has started a new life as a successful art dealer, but when he discovers that his wife's death was not as accidental as he originally thought, he realizes that the ghosts from his past have finally caught up with him.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 8
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux defends a local family whose land is being repossessed he finds himself in danger at the hands of local mobsters and a hired assassin.
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
When she agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a wild chase through the Northeast from which only one party--Jane or her pursuers--will emerge alive.
After Sara Daughton cheated on her boyfriend, he dragged her to the home of the offending man and made her watch as he killed him. She testified against...
59) Code red
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to answer. The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to Losa's business and he's determined to send someone to keep him on top by any means necessary. Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only...
60) Dream town
Author
Series
Aloysius Archer novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious entering the property, there's a dead body in the hallway...
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