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1) Stolen souls
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Galya Petrova fights her way out of a Belfast brothel, killing one of her captors, she seeks refuge with a man who turns out to be a serial killer, while Detective Inspector Jack Lennon looks into a gang war that was triggered by Galya.
2) Boy21
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
3) Don't blink
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
5) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former con artists turned lawyer Eddie Flynn vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again after a disastrous case. But now he doesn't have a choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old daughter: Eddie has to take this case whether he likes it or not.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A story based on the author's life follows the 1970s coming-of-age of a half-Sicilian, half-Jewish girl from Brooklyn who falls in love with an aspiring gangster, a romance that threatens her dreams of leaving her home city and pursuing a writing career.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sterling Brooks is sent back to Earth to reunite a heartbroken seven-year-old girl with her father and grandmother, who were forced into the witness protection program because two mobsters have put a price on their heads.
Author
Series
Midnight volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Sent to America with his mother when his father's powerful empire is attacked, underworld lieutenant Midnight draws on his African intelligence and Muslim mindset to protect those he loves and reclaim his wealth and way of life.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novel volume 20
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Hired by a corrupt lawyer to investigate an old mafia murder attempt on the life of his best friend, private detective Amos Walker reluctantly follows a string of vague leads in Detroit's underworld.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The irrepressible daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl comes of age in golden-era Hollywood and a nascent Las Vegas before her beauty captures the attentions of one of the Strip's most powerful men.
Author
Series
Black Stiletto volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood actress Judy Cooper--who lives a double life as a vigilante called The Black Stiletto--tries to bring down a Harlem heroin dealer while at the same time dealing with a shady filmmaker who is threatening to reveal her identity.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lenny works for a ruthless gangster in Toronto, and his days are spent terrorizing the locals into paying protection on their shops. But Lenny has debts of his own, and he would rather get than be gotten, and so he comes up with a surefire way to end his marital and money problems.
16) No mortal thing
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing an assault by a member of one of Calabria's crime families and discovering that the police do not care, a young Englishman begins a pursuit that leads him to a delicate surveillance operation, setting off alarms in multiple countries.
17) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Colt Brothers investigation volume 6
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
DJ Diamond's partnership with Sadie Montclair is purely professional. But when a high-stakes poker game DJ organized turns violent, Sadie refuses to leave his side. Hiding out in a snowbound cabin gives them a chance to explore the feelings they've kept from each other...and makes them an easy target for the gangsters who want them dead.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
19) Pronto
Author
Series
Raylan Givens volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For nearly half a century, John le Carr 's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again. Now, le Carr provides a stunning tour-de-force that only a craftsman of his caliber could pen. As menacing and flawlessly paced as "The Little Drummer Girl "and as morally complex as "The...
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