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21) North of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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....
Author
Series
City trilogy (Darren Shan) volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Young, quick-witted and cocksure, Capac Raimi arrives in the City determined to make his mark in a world of sweet, sinister sin. Then Capac crosses paths with The Cardinal, and his life changes forever. Faced with hard choices and his own soaring ambition, Capac must find his way alone in this deadly world.
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
Paperback sleuth mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when she's not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collector's items, she's pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlord's demands for rent. The man she's just robbed turns out be one of London's most dangerous gangsters, and now he's on her trail and out for blood.
27) Rizzo's daughter
Author
Series
Joe Rizzo novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she's settled, calling in favors to get her assigned to the easiest house and the best training officer. And while there, he's expected to work a few cases, though he never would've guessed that they'd include the most sensational...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Emma and Granny Apples hit the road for Las Vegas to help out Dolly, a former showgirl who is being haunted by a dead Vegas hood named Lenny. Lenny is concerned that an aging mobster named Nemo is coming after Dolly. But when Nemo winds up dead and Dolly goes missing, Emma and Granny find themselves investigating a casino heist gone bad, a stash of hidden loot, and a missing wiseguy who's not letting death stand between him and setting things straight....
29) Outlaw mamis
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Secure the bag" is their motto, and death before dishonor is their G-code, so when greed, disloyalty, and hidden agendas threaten their enterprises, these outlaw mamis exact revenge on a whole new level!"--Publisher's description.
30) The survivor
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Nate, a former soldier suffering from PTSD and diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease nine months earlier, is about to leap off an 11th-floor ledge of a bank building in Santa Monica, Calif., when he notices a robbery in progress through the window next to where he is standing. He climbs back in the window undetected, grabs a handgun a masked man has conveniently set down and succeeds in shooting dead five of the six robbers. In revenge, the thwarted...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Samir is the drop dead gorgeous man who rescued Shaniyah from her horrible living situation years ago. Their relationship was the epitome of Black Love, but it couldn't shield this loving father from the harmful call of the streets. After struggling to raise her young son without his Dad, Shaniyah is somewhat relieved when Samir resurfaces and becomes an integral part of his sons life, but she is soon reminded of the what can happen when you love...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Author
Series
Ride or die chick novels volume 3
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Imagine being the product of one of the most notorious criminal couples ever to terrorize the state of Virginia. Imagine your father choosing death over life in prison because he thinks he has no reason to live. Imagine your mother trying to kill herself and you to protect you from the world. Then imagine growing up parentless in a society you seem not to fit in until you meet someone else who feels the same way. If you can imagine all of this, then...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mick Oberon may look like just another 1930s private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he's got pointy ears and he's packing a wand. The Spear of Lugh is in Chicago. And everyone, "everyone" wants it, for it is said that he who carries the spear into battle cannot be defeated. Those chasing it include an agent of the infamous Wild Hunt; a mobster who knows far more about these things than he should; and of course both the Seelie...
Author
Series
Harry McCoy novels volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, homegrown rock hero, has overdosed in a downtown hotel. Alice Kelly is thirteen years old, alone, and missing. Harry McCoy is quietly asked to find his boss's niece, who's fallen in with a dodgy crowd and hasn't been seen for days. McCoy has a hunch that there's a connection between all three events, but nobody's interested in hunches: the clock is running, the papers are out for blood,...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Six teenagers' lives intertwine during a summer of romantic misunderstandings and dangerous deals in this retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, set in the era of Prohibition in the 1920s"--
After she gets kicked out of boarding school, Beatrice goes to her uncle's estate on Long Island. It's a rundown old mansion, where Beatrice's cousin, Hero, runs a struggling speakeasy out of the basement. As Beatrice and Hero throw all their efforts...
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." -- Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. 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...
39) The don con
Author
Publisher
Pace Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Joey Volpe hit the high watermark of his acting career when he played a small role as a mobster on The Sopranos. If you blinked, you missed it. But now he's unemployed, broke, and forced to make a living by signing autographs at pop-culture fan conventions, or "Fan-Cons," for $35 a pop. His lack of income, along with his chronic womanizing, has put his marriage at risk, too. But Joey's life gets even worse when real mobster Tony Rosetti shows up...
40) The target
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
"Dear Reader: You're about to enter a labyrinth where the unthinkable happens and the unimaginable becomes terrifyingly real. Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Colorado Rockies. But his isolation is shattered when he rescues a small girl unconscious in the forest and strangers invade his private meadow, their intent to kill. Molly Santera, the little girl's mother,...
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