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21) No good deed
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Kincaid understands the dangers of corruption. As an FBI agent, she has witnessed some very bad deeds committed by seemingly good people. That's why she's glad to see corrupt DEA Agent Nicole Rollins behind bars for murder, conspiracy, and gunrunning. But when Rollins makes a daring escape--jeopardizing a busload of children and killing five officers--Lucy becomes the key to the biggest manhunt in Texas history--and the target of a brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Born into a criminal family in London during the Great Depression, and trained by a group of women shoplifters, Queenie Dove decides to go straight after the birth of her daughter until she decides to take part in one last robbery.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best-- or worst. Telfer introduces us to a host of lady swindlers whose scams ranged from the outrageous to the deadly. Among them: In 1700s Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette. Cassie Chadwick got banks...
Series
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Inside this place, not of it reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. Here, in their own words, thirteen narrators recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle once inside"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned? On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself and even barricaded her four-year-old son inside a closet to prevent his escape. Though she insisted...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After being left for dead by her mother, dissed by her peers, held responsible for her siblings, and forgotten by society, Murdonna Carter finds herself in one hell of a predicament. With no money, food, or electricity, she learns quickly how to survive. In the ghetto, you either kill or be killed, and grind or you starve! Tired of going to bed hungry, she realizes it's do or die. For the love of family, she puts her own life on the line and does...
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A half million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons. For Wallace Stroby's determined heroine, professional thief Crissa Stone, and her team, stealing it was the easy part. But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on the run with a duffel bag of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part of the take to the needy family of one of her slain partners. In pursuit are the drug kingpin's...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and 'one of the top 10 imposters of all time,' according to Time Magazine. Born Elizabeth Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while continuing her work as a medium under the name Madame La Rose in Cleveland, Cassie met and married a widowed...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Adele grew up in the shadows -- first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors. Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new friends do so with dark intentions. After a violent...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The lascivious ladies of the Mean Girls Club have been raising a riot around town, and the cops are onto them. Prepare for a mad-dash of boozing, skull-busting, and general mid-century mayhem as they deliver a swift stiletto-stab to the crotch of the patriarchy.
37) Bury the lede
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dead husband. Missing son. And the wife will only talk to one person. Cub reporter Madison Jackson is young, scrappy, and hungry to prove that she deserves her coveted college internship at the premiere newspaper in town. The Boston Lede, where she fetches coffee for the night crew and dreams of her own byline. So when her police scanner mentions a brutal murder tied to a prominent Boston family, Madison races to the crime scene, looking for the...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A rollicking historical account of Marguerite Steinheil ('the Red Widow"), a real-life French femme fatale who used her influence to arrange governmental appointments, blackmailed her opponents, and may have even attempted to poison those who got in the way of her agenda--and also mysteriously survived a home invasion that left her husband and mother dead, leaving the police with more questions than answers. For readers of The Radium Girls and Sin...
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