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"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade.After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2022.
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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...
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Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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This month marks 10 YEARS OF KICK-ASS the greatest superhero comic of all time! It 's been a decade since teen comic book nerd Dave Lizewski donned his homemade Kick-Ass costume and took to the streets of NYC to fight the city 's hardest criminals. This New York Times bestseller became a worldwide phenomenon overnight, spending three months at the top spot on the Diamond Direct Market chart and spawning the KICK-ASS movie that opened at No.1 in the...
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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...
45) Don't Believe It
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From the acclaimed author of Twenty Years Later comes a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel of suspense in which a filmmaker helps clear a woman convicted of murder—only to find she may be a puppet in a sinister game. Fans of Freida McFadden and Alice Feeney will be left breathless by this unforgettable thriller that builds to a shocking conclusion...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
46) Testimony
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Kindle County novels volume 10
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At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire...
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The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas.
The rest of the story that couldn't be told-until now.
One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of mafia legend-and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this legendary unsolved case using recent evidence from the 2015 trial of eighty-year-old mafioso Vincent...
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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border -- and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy. José Treviño was a devoted family man working as a bricklayer in Texas. Back in Mexico, his younger brother Miguel was ascending to the top ranks of Los Zetas, a notoriously bloody drug cartel. One day José showed up at a quarter-horse auction and bid close to a million dollars for...
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"For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them...
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"The amateur DNA sleuth who solved one of the most infamous cold cases in American history--the Golden State Killer crime spree--tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have forever changed criminal investigations. In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had baffled law enforcement for decades. I Know Who You Are...
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2023.
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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Castle volume season 2
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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Mystery novelist Rick Castle's unique approach to crime solving may have won over Detective Kate Beckett, but after crossing her, Castle is going to have to do his best work to get her back on his side.
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Why did robbers steal precious works of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990? In 2005, how did thieves in Amsterdam pull off the largest diamond heist in history? Throughout the world, some criminals seem to pull off the perfect crimes. They leave us asking, "How'd they do it?" or "Why'd they do it?" and "Could it happen again?" With dramatic photos and intriguing theories, readers can go on a journey around the world and learn...
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Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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A crooked path of theft, extortion, and murder can only lead one place: the electric chair! When will these no-good mugs learn? The latest volume of the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated archival series collects issues #46-#49 of the wildly popular 1940s true-crime comic series, with a new foreword by Lorenzo Carcaterra (Sleepers).
* 2013 Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated series!
* Foreword by Lorenzo Carcaterra (New York Times best-selling author...
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Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
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One of the best-selling comics of the 1940s, Crime Does Not Pay focused on violent mobsters and murderous lowlifes who machine-gunned their way through the urban underworld . . . until justice landed them in the chair!
In 1954, the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency targeted this comic series for its graphic violence, eventually leading to the creation of the repressive Comics Code Authority. Issues #30 to #33 of Crime Does Not Pay are...
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Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Tommy-gun-toting toughs roar across the pages of Crime Does Not Pay, the sensational 1940s comic that enraptured millions with its scandalous stories of criminal scum, ripped right from the headlines! This edition collects issues #42-#45 of this infamous series and features a new foreword by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine! Collects Crime Does Not Pay #42-#45.
* Nearly seventy years later, CRIME still has the power to thrill and shock!
57) Control #6
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Kate has discovered the deadly secret of the Black Room. But the men who hold the keys to power will not let her live to reveal it to the world. This is no time for politics and professionalism: it's kill or be killed...
58) White Suits
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Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Mysterious killers dressed in white, they savaged the Cold War Russian underworld--then disappeared without a trace. Now they have resurfaced in New York, leaving a trail of dead mobsters in their bloody wake. In this tide of death, an amnesiac and a FBI agent bound by loss and haunted memories seek to answer a single question that may unlock their hidden pasts: Who are the White Suits?
In the edgy tradition of The Usual Suspects and Kill Bill,...
59) Control #5
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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It was never just a routine homicide case. Detective-Sergeant Kate Burnham tried to be professional about it. That didn't work out. And now, as a well-laid trap is sprung and the bodies pile up in her wake, it's about to get just a little too personal...
60) Control
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Detective-Sergeant Kate Burnham isn't making any friends in the Washington, DC Police Department. That makes her the perfect scapegoat when a routine homicide investigation threatens to blow open a criminal conspiracy reaching to the upper echelons of the DC power elite. Either Kate makes it go away, or they make her go away. Cop or criminal, power is all about control, applied top-down from the penthouse elite to the hustlers on the street. But what...
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