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1) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. Join the NYPD Red team in their most explosive case ever. The series from James Patterson and Marshall Karp has always been a must-read. But Karp's latest, NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority, tops them all, making it a must-read-now! Lower Manhattan: A sniper's bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingston Imperial 2, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book "is told out of chronological order, and follows three main interrelated stories [in which] hitwomen Egypt & Asia & Persia arrive at an apartment to retrieve a briefcase for their boss ... Warning: there will be blood"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Series
Lars and Shaine volume 2
Publisher
Down & Out Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Two years after they escaped the mainland with their lives and little else, save for well over a million dollars in the bank, Lars and Shaine have carved out a nicely spartan existence in Hawaii. Two years without pulling the triggeron another human being. Until Lars's former employer calls about another job."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Lilly Mansfield is a hired assassin who is on contract with the CIA, but when a crime hits home she seeks revenge for herself. A girl who Lilly saved off the streets as a young child is killed along with the friends who were raising her. Now Lilly will take personal matters into her own hands and seek vengeance on the horrible people who did this.
Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Murder has been easy for the butcher's boy until now: It's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of specialists in police agencies who watch the world of organized crime. All notice that something big is going on, but only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 27
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball! Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker's client suspects cannot be ignored; as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inherited all...
9) Camino winds
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime ... Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
10) River of blood
Author
Series
Frontiersman series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Breck Wallace was tuning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two such...
11) The Cartel
Author
Series
Cartel novels volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Carter Diamon, the leader of The Cartel, which controls eighty percent of the cocaine industry, dies, his illegitimate son, Carter Jones, takes his place and starts sleeping with the enemy--Miamor, the leader of The Murder Mamas, who wants to take down The Cartel.
Author
Series
Page Murdock novels volume 7
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
White desert: Page Murdock is a Western cop. He is a U.S. Marshall based in Montana, hot on the trail of a vicious gang heading into the far north of Canada in the dead of winter.
Port hazard: Pursued by hired assassins, Page Murdock seeks refuge among in San Francisco's Barbary Coast, where his search for the mysterious individual who wants him dead leads him into Chinatown and into an alliance with an enigmatic vice lord from an alien culture....
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Well past retirement age and feeling his years - but still staying sober one day at a time - Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Remi Bone is a good guy. He's a hardworking mechanic, a single father raising his late wife's daughter, and now, he's dying of heart failure. But his daughter Kayla was just admitted to the college of her dreams. How will she afford college with two dead parents? Before he dies, Remi decides to stockpile as much money as possible for Kayla's future. When a chance to participate in a lucrative gun-for-hire scheme arises, Remi, out of desperation,...
15) Envy the night
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Seven years after the death of his father, a covert agent who supposedly committed suicide to avoid prosecution, Frank Temple is confronted by the past in the person of Devin Matteson, the old friend and associate who had betrayed his father, as well as a web of family secrets, mob assassins, and his father's shadowy legacy.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At sixty-five, Hornclaw, an assassin who kills with ruthless efficiency, is ready to cash out on her share of the company, but when a slip-up results in an unexpected connection, Hornclaw's final chapter in her career may also mark a bloody end to her life.
Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him-again-and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...
Author
Series
Lars and Shaine volume 3
Publisher
Down & Out Books
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
"Lars and Shaine have returned to a quiet life on the islands, but for Lars there is unfinished business. When he gets information that will lead him to exact revenge on behalf of his young protégé, the young woman he's grown to think of as a daughter, he decides to take action in secret. When he lands in a hospital, Shaine is called from a thousand miles sway and she must take the lead in the last job of Lars' storied career of death for hire....
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Language
English
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Description
Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett and you've got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true love...
Agnes Crandall's life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she's staked her entire net
Author
Series
Finlay Donovan novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From USA Today bestseller and Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun-the hilarious and heart-pounding next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. Dating. Diapers. And dodging bullets. Who said single moms can't have fun? Finlay Donovan has been in messes before-after all, she's an author and single mom who's a pro at getting out bloodstains for rather unexpected reasons-but none quite like this. After she...
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