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1) Loyalty
Author
Language
English
Description
"An emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
"Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome laborer toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning a lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. When the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and the history of Sicily... Gaetano Catalano...
Author
Series
Butcher's Boy volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after the Butcher's Boy wipes out several mobsters and disappears, Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is approached by the mythical hit man, who asks her for crucial information in exchange for helping her to crack an unsolved murder case.
Author
Series
Danny Ryan volume 1
Language
English
Description
Danny Ryan yearns for a more "legit" life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the family he has sworn to protect, he becomes a leader, a ruthless strategist, and a master of a treacherous game in which the winners live and the losers die. From the gritty streets of Providence to the glittering screens...
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Language
English
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
6) L.A. times
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vinnie Callabrese, a runner for the mob, uses his ill-gotten gains to produce a full-length feature for the silver screen. His first effort a success, he goes to Hollywood. His mob connections make him one of the most powerful men in the film industry. But friends like his exact a high price for their friendship--a price that Vinnie may not be willing to pay.
Author
Series
Coughlin volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1926, during the 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new direction for his life and with help from his sister who works in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very...
9) 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.
10) Dog beach
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A struggling screenwriter meets his hero Johnny Moe, the Hong Kong stuntman turned mafia enforcer"--
12) Dante
Author
Series
Chicago ruthless volume 1
Publisher
Red House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
I hate Dante Moretti. He is cold, calculating and vicious. It's no secret that he wiped out his former fiancée and her entire family on the eve of their wedding. He's the kind of evil that makes even devils cry. But that's not why I hate him. I hate him because he has taken the only thing I have left in this miserable world - my freedom. He has chained me to him because of a debt that I don't owe. I just have the misfortune to share the bloodline...
13) The goddaughter
Author
Series
Gina Gallo mystery volume 1
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A young gemologist who happens to be related to the local mob is reluctantly recruited to smuggle diamonds across the border with hilarious consequences.
14) The white city
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An arresting story of betrayal and empowerment as a criminal’s girlfriend is left behind to pick up the pieces of her imploded existence.
15) Joey
Author
Series
Chicago ruthless volume 2
Publisher
Red House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Notorious Mafia enforcer and right hand of the Cosa Nostra, Maximo DiMarco has always looked out for me. He's my protector. My brothers' best friend. My crush-with the body of a god and the mind of a devil. And I am just a spoiled Mafia princess. At least that's who most people think I am. They don't look at me long enough to see the real me. But he sees… He is dark and dangerous and lethal, but he's the only man who makes me feel like I'm alive....
16) The master
Author
Series
Game maker volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rich, irresistible politician/Mafia boss Maksimilian Sevastyan prefers tall, obedient blondes to fulfill his...complicated desires. That is, until the icy Russian encounters a disobedient brunette whose exquisite little body threatens his legendary restraint. Catarina Marín was a well-off young wife until her world fell apart. Now she's hiding out, forced to start working as an escort in Miami. Her very first client is beyond gorgeous, but when he...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After falling in love with a mobster's daughter he met on a commuter train, law abiding Phil Vail becomes a crime boss in her family, but has to reconsider his position when an old friend, an ex-CEO, decides to run for president.
18) Think wolf
Author
Series
Sebastiano Cangio volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When the headless body of his fellow park ranger is found amidst the wooded hills of the Sybilline Mountains National Park, Sebastiano Cangio is convinced that he himself was the intended target. But what was Marzio doing out there on his own at dead of night?
19) Deadly embrace
Author
Series
Lethal seduction volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Celebrity magazine writer Madison Castelli digs into her mob hitman father's past in order to discover the truth about her mother's death and encounters a vortex of greed, lust, and deception that threatens her life.
Author
Series
Jesse Stone novel volume 15
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn’t too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime boss is brutally murdered. Despite all evidence...
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