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Manhattan private detective Leonid McGill, not quite accustomed to his commitment to the straight and narrow, cannot say no when Alphonse Rinaldo, New York City's ultimate fixer, asks him to run uptown and check on a young woman, and he is not surprised when he walks into a murder scene that makes him a prime suspect in the eyes of the police, and determines to find the now-missing girl and learn the truth about what is really going on.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Private detective Leonid McGill struggles with hard times, personally and professionally, reluctantly accepts a job from a beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of money, but after he learns the reasons why she fears for her life, Leonid is certain that if his family's misadventures do not kill him, this case will.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[Jan 24, 2012]
Language
English
Description
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corp., Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins to unravel around him.
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Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960's, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready--finally--to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he's taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case, and, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford "Whisper" Natly, has started a new detective agency. But, inevitably, a case gets in the way: Easy's friend...
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Publisher
Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
14) Cinnamon kiss
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Easy Rawlins, a private investigator in Vietnam-era Los Angeles, is in need of a source of quick money in order to secure a medical treatment for his daughter. Rawlins agrees to take on what he knows is a shady case, trying to track down a storefront attorney who has disappeared along with a case of unspecified documents.
15) Blood grove
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and intosex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
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Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Even though he has given up the street life and taken a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School, trouble seems to follow Easy Rawlins, this time in the form of a seductive teacher with something to hide, and a dead body in the school garden.
18) Every man a king
Author
Series
King Oliver novel volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.
When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe with an assignment, he's got no choice but to accept, even if the case is a tough one to stomach. White nationalist Alfred Xavier Quiller has been accused of...
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