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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 14
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PI Matt Scudder sets out to learn who is trying to kill Mick Ballou, a gangster who is his friend and who has become the object of several assassination attempts. A dangerous assignment as Scudder himself becomes a target.
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A Harry Starke novel volume 3
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For more than ten years, she lay beneath the floorboards of Hill House. For more than ten years, she waited. Who was she? Who put her there? Why? Harry Starke vows to find the answers to those questions, but to do so he must embark upon an investigation that will put him and those close to him in deadly danger, take him deep into the underground city, the Dark Web, murder, organized crime, prostitution, and human trafficking. One by one, he peels...
3) Good bait
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When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society. Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor Cordon is stirred from...
4) Bad business
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FBI Special Agents Cuthbert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi get into hot water when the turncoat mobster they were assigned to protect is found murdered-and Tozzi is the prime suspect. At the center of the crime is a dirty assistant US attorney who's been ordered to throw a major drug case to pay off a debt to a Sicilian gangster. But Gibbons and Tozzi are determined to bring order to the court . . .
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Ex-state trooper Harry Rane, who first appeared in Wallace Stroby's brilliant debut novel, The Barbed-Wire Kiss, is at loose ends. Doing some investigative work for a friend's firm just to keep himself busy, Harry meets Nikki Ellis, a woman desperate for help. Her ex, Johnny Harrow, was just released from prison after a seven-year stretch for attempted murder. Nikki hasn't spoken to him since he went down, but she knows what he's capable of, and that...
6) Bad moon
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FBI agents Gibbons and Tozzi investigate the death of mob boss Sabatini Mistretta.
7) The last gig
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Norman Green, critically acclaimed author of four crime novels, debuts a fresh, edgy character in the streetwise Alessandra Martillo, a female take on the P.I.s of yesteryear. Tough as nails and sometimes heartless, smart and altogether too brave for her own good, Al is one of the most interesting lead characters to hit crime fiction in years.
A teenage runaway from the Brownsville projects, Alessandra Martillo lived with an indifferent aunt who...
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New Jersey detective Harry Rane, forced into early retirement after being shot in the line of duty, agrees to try to negotiate a deal with local crime boss Eddie Fallon for an old friend who has gotten into some trouble on a drug deal, but things get complicated when it turns out Eddie's wife is Harry's own first true love--one he does not want to lose again.
10) Pigtown
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At the heart of this gripping novel is a true story: Many years ago a decision made at the highest levels of the NYPD opened the floodgates to massive corruption that inevitably accompanied the staggering flow of "bad money" that came from drug trafficking. In Pigtown, the immense weight of that fateful decision comes down on one detective lieutenant, Matthew Stuart, and his loyal and resourceful crew of fellow cops in the Seven One Detective Squad....
11) Shell game
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When V. I Warshawski gets word that her closest friend and mentor Lotty Herschel's nephew has become a suspect in a murder, the legendary detective will do everything she can to save him. The cops found Felix Herschel's name and phone number on the unknown victim's remains, but Felix insists he doesn't know why. As Vic digs deeper, she discovers that the dead man was obsessed with Middle Eastern archaeology-the first clue in a bewildering case that...
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