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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
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English
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The divorced ex-cop, Kinsey Millhone, turns 33, is hired to bring a mother back from the desert, and makes a top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list, all on the same day.
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A mob contract killer known as "The Iceman" for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. The family man from New Jersey killed for fun, money, to cover up his own crimes, and to satisfy his inner rage. Law enforcement officials could not get near Kuklinski until undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse to build...
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Brodies of Alaska volume 3
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English
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"Liv Chandler is running for her life, and the cops haven't been able to do a thing to help. But there's one man who makes her feel safe, no matter what...rugged charter boat captain Rafe Brodie. But Liv's past is more dangerous than Rafe could guess, and when his first mate turns up dead, she fears that she's next. That there's something else coming she can't see. That even Rafe and the remote village of Valdez, Alaska can't protect her forever..."--Page...
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"Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world's rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong. After barely escaping, Junior realizes the danger is far from over. He's gotten himself on the wrong side of a man whose name is synonymous with violence, and to save his own skin he's set off a chain reaction of blackmail, strong-arming, and escalating crime. To pay off his...
6) Midnight sun
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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He calls himself Ulf, and the only thing hes looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslos most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed. The locals seem to accept Ulf's explanation that he's come to hunt. And a bereaved, taciturn woman and her curious, talkative young son supply him with food, the use of a cabin deep in the woods, a weapon--...
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The notorious Gotti family is the stuff of mob legend. The "Dapper Don," John Gotti Sr., and his son John A. "Junior" Gotti ran New York's powerful Gambino crime family and were well known for their flamboyant style and brutal ways. John Alite, a mob hit man, associate, and close friend of the Gottis, has a very different story to tell. An Albanian-American from Queens, Alite was an unlikely ally to the Italian mob, but with his street smarts he was...
8) Full speed
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Full series volume 3
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English
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Newspaper publisher Jamie Swift and millionaire playboy Max Holt pose as husband and wife to track down the story of a lifetime. They become involved with a corrupt minister, a gang of mobsters on the loose, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz.
9) Hit Me
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John Keller novels volume 5
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English
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Bestselling author and grand master Lawrence Block returns to his deadliest hitman.
A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it's hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living.
But when the nation's economy tanks, taking the construction business...
A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it's hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living.
But when the nation's economy tanks, taking the construction business...
10) IQ
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IQ novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature...
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Almost before the gun smoke from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre cleared, Chicago police had a suspect: Machine Gun Jack McGurn. They just could not find him. However, two weeks later police found McGurn and his paramour, Louise May Rolfe, holed up at the Stevens Hotel. Both claimed they were in bed on the morning of the shootings, a titillating alibi that grabbed the public's attention and never let go. Chicago Valentines is one of the most outrageous...
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Blood on snow volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.
13) Ties that bind
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 2
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English
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This is a rip-snorter ... Plenty of action and plots twists, lots of nail-biting and derring-do ...
14) Shaker: a novel
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"The tense, darkly funny, unputdownable debut novel from one of the most successful screenwriters of the past 20 years--the tale of a hit man mistaken for a hero whose sudden, unwanted fame makes him a target for the surprising number of people who want him dead"--
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