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Author
Series
Charley Davidson novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paranormal private eye. Grim reaper extraordinaire. Whatever. Charley Davidson is back! And she's drinking copious amounts of caffeine to stay awake because, every time she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the parthuman, part-supermodel son of Satan. Yes, she did imprison him for all eternity, but come on. How is she supposed to solve a missing persons case, deal with an ego-driven doctor, calm her curmudgeonly dad, and take on a motorcycle...
Author
Series
Precinct 11 volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.
26) Vicious cycle
Author
Series
Vicious cycle novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Katie Ashley revs up the danger and sexual tension in her brand-new Vicious Cycle romance series. Deacon Malloy's life is dedicated to the Hell's Raiders motorcycle club. Tough, hard, and fast with his fists, he serves the group as sergeant at arms. But his devil-may-care approach to life is thrown for a loop when the five-year-old daughter he never knew existed lands on the club steps. Alexandra Evans is devoted...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Chet and Bernie happen upon a prison work crew that includes Frenchie Boutette, an old criminal pal they sent up the river, getting a new case is the last thing they expect. But Frenchie, who comes from an old Louisiana family full of black sheep, needs help finding his one law-abiding relative, his brother Ralph, a reclusive inventor who has gone missing with his houseboat. Though he's tempted to take another job (with a big payday) in Alaska,...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly--and fast"--
In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister...
30) Dirty music
Author
Series
Crescent Crew volume 3
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a rising star's reckless power grab ignites an industry war between a rap mogul and a leading R & B artist, a label founder on the brink of becoming the world's biggest independent resorts to extreme measures to maintain control.
31) The cursed earth
Author
Publisher
Nosetouch Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Small towns always guard their secrets, and the quaint Pennsylvania tourist town of Lynchburg is no exception. When members of a Pittsburgh gang retreat to the outskirts of the town in an ill-fated bid to hide from the authorities, they-along with a trio of industrial spies, a would-be celebrity chef, and a happy-go-lucky band of unwary festivalgoers-find themselves set upon by the dark forces behind the town's 50th annual Fungus Festival. Set deep...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"With gang violence escaling in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force? In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on fire--alive. Even in a culture where ritual killings are common,...
33) Beats and blow
Author
Series
Crescent Crew volume 4
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The founder and leader of the Crescent Crew negotiates a supply of products from lockdown while his second-on-command, Bone, has a secret agenda that is starting an internal war.
34) Savage kiss
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas. Nicolas Fiorilla and his gang of children--his paranza--control the squares of Forcella after their rapid rise to power. But it isn't easy being at the top. Now that the Piranhas have power in the city, Nicolas must undermine the old families of the Camorra and remain united among themselves. Every paranzino...
35) The long fall
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
36) Who they was
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The unforgettable narrator goes by two names in his two worlds. At university, he's Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the classroom, he's Snoopz, a hard living member of London's gangs, well-acquainted with drugs, guns, stabbings, and robbery. Navigating these sides of himself, dealing with loving parents at the same time as treacherous, endangering friends and the looming...
Author
Series
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Detective Frank Yakabuski is called to investigate a gruesome crime scene in the Northern Divide. The body of a crime lord has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence, a large diamond in the victim's mouth. Two criminal gangs - the Shiners and the Travellers - are seemingly at war, and Yakabuski turns to his father, a now-retired detective who has a long history with the gangs, for advice. Is the conflict over the murder of two men? The kidnapping...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in the city. They learn to cheat and to steal, to shoot semiautomatic...
39) Never back down
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hunting the one man who puts fear into her heart -- and who could destroy everything she loves -- Susannah Faulkner, who has lived a dangerous and violent life, journeys across the U.S., contending with both new and old friends and foes, to take down her evil equal.
40) Ride on
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In a dusty, barren Texas, ruined by pollution, a young cowboy searching for the ocean and a teenage girl on the run, both struggling with loss, unite to take on a violent gang.
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