Anthony Bruno
1) Devil's Food
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With her low-level law-enforcement career on the rocks, it's make-it-or-break-it time for zaftig Loretta Kovacs. She's been assigned to the ragtag Parole Violators Search Unit, a.k.a. the Jump Squad. All her buttons are pushed when she goes undercover as a desperate dieter at a Florida fat farm in order to nab an embezzler who's a perfect size 2. But untangling the mysteries surrounding this case is going to be harder than passing up a pastry . ....
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A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award–nominated author. In this hilarious and biting novel, seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else-to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy teachers, his insane parents, the Catholic Church, and the Mafia are all standing in the way . . . From the author of Bad Apple and the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, this is an involving...
3) Bad Luck
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A celebrity real estate tycoon wants to open the biggest casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey-the only problem being that he still owes millions to the mob, and he's not quite as rich as he seems to be . . . As FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons investigate, the story soon involves an oversexed trophy wife, a Mafia boss who pretends to be a mental patient, his sister (the nun), a championship prizefight, and Gibbons's reluctant wedding preparations,...
4) Bad Guys
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Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons were once odd-couple partners in crime-solving. But Gibbons has gone into retirement-and Tozzi has just gone renegade. After hot-headed Tozzi leaves a trail of bodies in his wake, Gibbons heads back to work to stop him. Instead, the two of them team up-and uncover a secret crime family headed by a convicted mobster pulling the strings from the safety of the witness protection program. But it's when Tozzi gets involved...
5) Bad Apple
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When an undercover FBI agent is murdered, the mob and the bureau race to nab the triggerman. The prime suspect takes agent Mike Tozzi hostage-and handcuffs him to the Mafia princess they both desire. Meanwhile, the big boss captures Tozzi's partner, Gibbons, intent on seeing justice served his way . . .
6) In One Hand
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A thrilling read Customer Rating See Detailed Ratings Posted August 18, 2010, 10:13 PM EST: A thrilling read, In One Hand quickly takes you by the hand and leads you through the early adult life of the main character, Tony Sardelli. A Brooklyn born only child of very loving Italian parents, Tony is first headed to the U. S. Army. From here he swiftly picks you up and engulfs you in both the very good and very hard times of his early adulthood. Army...
7) Bad Moon
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Mobster or mental case? That's the question at the heart of FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons's latest case. Sal Immordino, incarcerated in a psychiatric institution, is actually plotting his comeback with the help of his sister (the nun) and a serial-killer-in-training. Bodies are piling up-and Gibbons and Tozzi have to throw out the rule book to keep Immordino off the throne . . . .
8) Bleeders
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An FBI profiler plays a dangerous game with her mother's murderer in this chilling thriller by the author of Seven. FBI profiler Trisha McCleery has been on a twenty-year personal search for the person who brutally murdered her mother. At the same time, serial killer Gene Lassiter has been on an obsessive twenty-year search for the daughter of his first kill. If she finds him, justice can at last be served. If he finds her, one man's reign of terror...
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In this follow-up to the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, fugitive-hunter Loretta Kovacs races to keep one hitman from killing another. The intended victim is a valuable government witness against the mob, and a dirty FBI agent is helping the bad guys. Now, while she struggles to kick her caffeine habit once and for all, Loretta must fend off the advances of an amorous mob boss while babysitting the cantankerous witness in Seattle-the capital...
10) Hot Fudge
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The plus-size parole officer returns in this new novel by the author of Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food and Double Espresso. This time around, a sexy colleague "borrows" Loretta Kovacs's partner-and paramour-Frank Marvelli for an assignment in San Francisco, and jealous Loretta tails them. Then Marvelli is kidnapped, and the women must team up to find him and nab the fugitive in question-a successful ice-cream entrepreneur . . .
11) Bad Blood
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After two bodies-each of them hacked in half-are found in the Hudson River, FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons begin to investigate a deadly partnership between the Mafia and the Japanese yakuza. But they're in for a fight. After Gibbons takes a severe beating from a deranged assassin who believes he's the reincarnation of an ancient samurai, Tozzi vows revenge. But the sword-wielding madman is itching to sink his blade into Tozzi too . ....
12) Bad Business
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FBI Special Agents Cuthbert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi get into hot water when the turncoat mobster they were assigned to protect is found murdered-and Tozzi is the prime suspect. At the center of the crime is a dirty assistant US attorney who's been ordered to throw a major drug case to pay off a debt to a Sicilian gangster. But Gibbons and Tozzi are determined to bring order to the court . . .
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At home, Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man; on the street, he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over one hundred, but the police couldn't touch him. Then undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse. The Iceman chronicles...
14) Bad apple
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Paramount
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2005
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Two FBI agents try to topple a loan-shark business run by the mob.