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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Join reporter Nick Daniels as he uncovers deadly secrets in a page-turning thriller from the "unstoppable" James Patterson (USA Today).
Seated at New York's Lombardo's Steak House, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy when an assassin strikes. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian...
Seated at New York's Lombardo's Steak House, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy when an assassin strikes. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian...
Author
Series
The Protectors (Brenda Jackson) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When good girl Margo Connelly becomes Lamar 'Striker' Jennings's latest assignment, she knows she's in trouble. And not just because he's been hired to protect her from an underworld criminal. The reformed bad boy's appeal is breaching all her defenses, and as the threats against her increase, Margo isn't sure which is more dangerous: the gangster targeting her, or the far too alluring protector tempting her to let loose."-- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
Luna -- or depending on who's asking, Rose -- is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen...
Author
Series
Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
10) Stolen souls
Author
Series
Jack Lennon investigations volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Fantasy meets crime caper in the first book of a landmark, enduringly popular epic series about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin has called “fresh, original, and engrossing . . . gorgeously realized.”
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist....
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer, who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
Author
Series
Uptown girls volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned and abandoned on the Bowery's mean streets, Jack Mulligan survived on strength, cunning, and ambition. Now he rules his territory better than any politician or copper ever could. He didn't get here by being soft. But in uptown do-gooder Justine Greene - the very definition of an iron fist in a velvet glove - Jack may have met his match. ... Justine is devoted to tracking down deadbeat husbands and fighting for fair working conditions. When...
14) Cold blooded
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Following the murder of his friend and business associate, Quentin Hunter, Mike Black decides that he might ask a few questions. Why would Daniel Beason kill Quentin, and why would Beason have murdered his business partner, Elias Colton?
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Convinced that the American partner of an Albanian mafia organization has murdered her friend, Shy enlists the aid of another friend, Ryder, to maintain the fragile peace while she delves further into her investigation.
17) Live by night
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Series
Language
English
Description
By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston Police captain, defies his proper upbringing and his father's strict law-and-order orthodoxy. Graduating from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the riches, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 20
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In his exciting twentieth mystery, hardboiled detective Amos Walker is hired to help free a mobster who once tried to kill Barry Stackpole, Walker's only true friend.
19) North of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
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