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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
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English
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In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
3) The target
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Federal judge Ramsey Hunt, having retreated to the Rockies to escape the notoriety following a violent incident in his courtroom, finds himself drawn into another deadly situation when he discovers a small, obviously abused little girl in the forest.
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English
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Beano X. Bates, a con man known as "King Con," is nearly beaten to death by a New Jersey crime boss and considers leaving his life as a grifter for good. But before he quits, he makes plans to perform one final scam that will ruin the boss and his Mob family forever.
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English
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Matthew Scudder finally has his life on the right track, and all he wants is to settle down with his wife in their new home in a quiet neighborhood, but then he agrees to help an old friend, and he finds himself fighting to save his life and his family.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The body of Matteo Arconti, an innocent insurance agent from Milan, is found feet away from the office of a court magistrate also named Matteo Arconti, and Commissario Alec Bloom believes Italy's secret mafia the Ndrangheta is behind it.
10) Insane city
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Seth Weinstein, in Florida for his destination wedding to Tina, who he thinks is out of his league, spends the two days prior to the event getting involved with pirates, Russian gangsters, strippers, powerful businessmen, high-speed chases, gunfire, and more, and finds his life forever changed by the experiences.
11) Omerta
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Don Raymonde Aprile, retired after a long career of organized crime, is assassinated by a pair of hit men who believe there is no one left to seek revenge, but they did not count on the Don's adopted "nephew" from Sicily, a child raised unlike Aprile's own three children to take over the crime family.
12) The fall
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English
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How far would you go to save your life and your world? After a nasty divorce, single mother Joanne Lessing finally has her life together, and she's made a name for herself as a photographer. Then, while on assignment, she witnesses a hit and run. Property damage only. No big deal, she thinks. So she does the right thing-calls the cops. Joanne is dismayed when FBI agents arrive with the local detective. They admit the hit and run driver was a mob killer...
13) Watch your back!
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English
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Master criminal John Dortmunder and New York fence Arnie Albright plan the million-dollar robbery of valuable artworks in the penthouse of Preston Fareweather; however, their plans are overheard by members of the mob who have plans of their own.
16) Nightkill
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Jake, a freelance hit man for the mob, is paralyzed and believed to be out of action for good after being shot by Fredo, a henchman for mafia godfather Mr. C., but an experimental medical program aimed at rebuilding spinal cords puts Jake back on his feet and ready for revenge.
18) Lie by moonlight
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English
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While investigating a suspicious death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the grounds of Aldwick Castle-and in the midst of utter chaos. The ramshackle castle is in flames-and a beautiful woman and four young girls are taking flight on horseback. It turns out that the strong-minded Miss Concordia Glade and her four bright students are on the run from a notorious London crime lord who'll stop at nothing to destroy them. Now, their...
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