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"The grandson and great-grandson of Chicago police officers, Chicago Police Detective James Sherlock was CPD through-and-through. His career had seen its share of twists and turns, from his time working undercover to thwart robberies on Chicago's L trains, to his side gig working security at The Jerry Springer Show , to his years as a homicide detective. He thought he had seen it all. But on this day, he was at the records center to see the case file...
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In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia-characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito-interwoven with the remarkable true-crime saga of the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the recent trial of two NYPD...
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Chicago Review Press
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"An engrossing look inside Al Capone's murderous ranks." -Kirkus Almost before the gunsmoke from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre cleared, Chicago police had a suspect: "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn. They just couldn't find him. But two weeks later police found McGurn and his paramour, Louise May Rolfe, holed up at the Stevens Hotel. Both claimed they were in bed on the morning of the shootings, a titillating alibi that grabbed the public's attention...
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The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.
Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But, after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating...
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Barakaldo Books
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[2020]
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English
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An astonishingly beautiful Eurasian girl with shoulder-length black hair cut in a page-boy bob had occupied her place. The Eurasian girl looked up, smiling. She had lovely eyes, dark, almond shaped, with very long black lashes that swept her cheeks.
"Miss Mildred Woodford?" she asked in polished English.
The Englishwoman conquered her surprise, but she was ruffled. Antagonism showed plainly upon her features. "I'm Woodford," she said flatly.
"I'm...
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Muriwai Books
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[2018]
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English
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A CORPSE ON HIS DOORSTEP LURES MCHUGH INTO THE ARMS OF THE MAFIA-AND A LETHAL FEMALE…McHugh called his joint "The Door," and for the stranger with the shiv in his guts, it was the door to Death. It was a tough caper to figure. McHugh finally put the pieces together-just in time to save himself from being fed to the fish in Monterey Bay. FRIENDLY PERSUASION…"It would be wise for you to tell us all about it," the dark man said softly. She held out...
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WildBlue Press
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[2017]
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The true crime story behind the film Casino from the mob enforcer who lived it and the author of The Accidental Gangster . Tony Spilotro was the Mob's man in Las Vegas. A feared enforcer, the bosses knew Tony would do whatever it took to protect their interests. The "Little Guy" built a criminal empire that was the envy of mobsters across the country, and his childhood pal, Frank Cullotta helped him do it. But Tony's quest for power and lack of self-control...
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Phocion Publishing
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[2019]
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English
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Desperate Men: The True Story of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and The Wild Bunch , first published in 1949 and updated and enlarged in 1962 (under the title Desperate Men: Revelations from the Sealed Pinkerton Files ) is historian James Horan's well-researched yet easy-to-read account of the lives and crimes of outlaws Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and a host of other renegades of the American Midwest and West. The book provides a unique,...
9) Destinies
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Austin Macauley Publishers
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[2019]
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English
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Young, beautiful, and hardworking, Nina Iorizzo discovers her quiet world has been turned on its head after coming in contact with mobster Santangelo Furri. She must find the strength to approach her sudden threat head-on. Santangelo Furri, the cunning and ruthless soldier-turned-boss overnight, must face new challenges from rival factions while balancing his own real" family. Lastly, Tommy Roberts, a successful attorney and proud father, soon discovers...
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Babelcube Inc
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[2018]
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The body of a man is discovered in the River Tet, tied at the end of a line, the fishing line around the neck. Faced with this conundrum, captain Frank Meyer and his team of the Judicial Police of Perpignan are pressed with this very delicate affair. The victim has no identification on them, and the only witness is the passer-by who fished the body thinking he had a large fish at the end of an abandoned fishing line. Alain Ruiz holds a PhD in Religious...
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WildBlue Press
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[2016]
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The true story of drugs and corruption in Brooklyn's 75th precinct, as told by a cop who lived it, a journalist, and an Edgar Award-winning author. They had no fear of the cops. Because they were the cops. NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in the Seven-Five. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both. Dowd and Eurell ran the most powerful gang in East New York's...
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Phocion Publishing
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[2019]
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English
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Night Stick , first published in 1947, is Lewis Valentine's no-holds barred autobiography of his career as a tough, honest policeman, who rose from New York beat-cop to commissioner (1934-1945) of the nation's largest police force. Valentine served under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia during the notorious Murder, Inc. era of organized crime, and is credited with eliminating a significant amount of the corruption that had plagued the NYPD up to that time....
14) Where is Nancy?
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DANI MART
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[2018]
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English
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Celebration, Orlando, FL: A quiet place until Nancy Masterson disappears, near Clear Lake Park. Detective Hannah Morgan, neighbor and friend of Nancy's father, Joshua Masterson, begins the search immediately, but the few clues can confuse even her expert – and complicated – partner Jeff Coulton. Everyone is a suspect and the puzzle needs to be assembled. A girl in a mysterious prison. The run against the time. Everyone has a secret, but Hannah...
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Babelcube Inc
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[2021]
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"Synopsis "WATER": He was called "Coñingan" for his peculiar way of solving serial killer cases. Detective Sean Rickman had no powers or a gift with which to see the killer's face, but he had a good intuition and an intelligence far superior to others. However, in the fall of 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and great storms, there was a killer ahead of him. So much so, that the detective was unable to pursue any theory or hypothesis as bodies appeared...
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"On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary suspect. The investigation even ruled out fantastic scenarios, including a theory that the perpetrator was a Dungeons & Dragons devotee. The case grew cold. Only decades later did a dogged police investigator...
17) Plugged
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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From the New York Times–bestselling author: "Outrageous characters, uproariously funny plot twists, and brutal, nonstop action . . . a sure-fire winner." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Daniel McEvoy has a problem. Well, really, he has several, but for this Irish ex-pat bouncer at a seedy, small-time casino, the fact that his girlfriend was just murdered in the parking lot is uppermost in his mind. That is until lots of people around him...
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Pablo Donetch
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[2017]
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English
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Emilia is a young successful lawyer working at GoodLife, a multinational insurance company. Her job is simple: look for loopholes to not pay insurance policies. Her career has been a succession of successes until one day arrives at her desk a file with the case of Matías Montes, who died in a bus and whose widow the insurance company must pay a huge amount of money. Emilia's investigation to find an attenuation that allows her company not to pay...
19) High Pressure
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Atlantic Books
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[2021]
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English
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"A gripping standalone thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of Little Bones and The Dark Room As temperatures soar across Europe during the hottest summer for forty years, a series of hoax terrorist attacks is generating panic in London. Then a bus blows up on Oxford Street and the hoaxes have suddenly become real. Student Brioni O'Brien has been desperately trying to contact her older sister since she unexpectedly returned early from travelling,...
20) Slave Marked: Submission, Pleasure and Marriage of Convenience with Master Millionaire and gangster
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Alba Duro
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[2019]
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English
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Hooded, thin, hungry, orphan and wanderer in the streets of Miami, A 19-year-old Latina with no passport, no identity and no future.
Until Bill Morgan, the undisputed leader of the mafia, found me. A Black suit, tie designer shoes and hair in the hair. It could be my father. He asked me how much my life cost. He asked me if I could kill to survive. I said yes.
A black flower-shaped tattoo and three copses later, was officially "Bill's daughter",...
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