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81) 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...
82) The witness
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In the blink of an eye, Lauren Brownly's lifechanged forever. Late one night the concertpianist witnessed a grisly murder, and with itcame a devastating truth: Her career had beenfinanced by crime lord Carlo Giovessi. Now Lauren'stestimony against him could finally bring him down.
Terrified and utterly alone, Lauren must trust inone man—Sam Grey Wolf Rawlins. She is powerfullydrawn to the rugged FBI agent who took her intoprotective custody,...
Terrified and utterly alone, Lauren must trust inone man—Sam Grey Wolf Rawlins. She is powerfullydrawn to the rugged FBI agent who took her intoprotective custody,...
83) The namesake
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Commissario Alec Blume novels volume 03
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2012.
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Confronted with a murder outside Rome's Piazzo Clodio where the killer has left taunting messages about another unsolved case, Commissioner Alec Blume passes the too-personal investigation to his partner while he attempts to lure an arrogant mafioso out of hiding.
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Getting shot at on her way to work is only the first shock of law student Hannah McClarnon's day. The second is when FBI agent Derek Chambers-her first love-reveals the truth about Hannah's family. Though Hannah was raised by a wealthy Indianapolis couple, her birth father was with the Chicago mafia. And now, convinced she has information against them, they're hunting her down. Derek's first big assignment is to protect Hannah, and it's becoming more...
85) Money wanders
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Jonah Eastman novels volume 1
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Jonah Eastman, disgraced Presidential pollster, is summoned home to Atlantic City by his ailing grandfather Mickey Price--a legendary Atlantic City gangster and owner of the Golden Prospect casino. When Mickey dies, Jonah is "persuaded" by mob boss Mario Vanni to help improve his image by launching a misinformation campaign aimed at gaining public acceptance and ultimately a way "outta the life."
So Jonah goes to war through a comical and audacious...
86) Dirty laundry
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Sofie Metropolis mysteries volume 2
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Sofie Metropolis is the newest PI on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens. She's known for her trademark frappés and her itchy trigger finger.
Uncle Tolly was acting odd right before he disappeared. The proof? The brand-new Mercedes Tolly just bought—and the business' books, which show that Uncle Tolly was laundering more than just clothes. Which is where the mob comes in, in the darkly handsome figure of Tony DiPiazza. Tony's
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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As the city of Chicago tries to recover from the violent gang rule of the Death Mob, Lia Finch, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe asthma, works with an unexpected network of strangers to discover the truth behind her father's murder.
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Reign Grazi is no stranger to dangerous men. Her whole life, they've been there. Grandfathers, uncles, cousins...she knows the difference between people who made the rules and those who broke them. But she has no idea why someone might want her dead.
Nick Fattelli is handsome, sophisticated, and...an assassin. He doesn't know who hired him to take out Reign, but after they meet and sparks fly, he vows to protect her. Unless it's really him they are...
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The Wolf volume 01
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"When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that may be his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls"-- Provided by publisher.
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Paul Chavasse thrillers volume 5
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2010.
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A British agent goes behind bars to trap an elusive enemy in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed.
As an experienced operative of the British Intelligence organization known as "The Bureau," Paul Chavasse is used to working behind enemy lines. So when he's approached with a mission that will land him in prison, he's certain it will be an easy stretch.
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As an experienced operative of the British Intelligence organization known as "The Bureau," Paul Chavasse is used to working behind enemy lines. So when he's approached with a mission that will land him in prison, he's certain it will be an easy stretch.
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James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression. Raised on an isolated West Texas ranch that he was forced to flee at age eighteen following the violent breakup of his foster family, Jimmy has found a home and a profession in Galveston -- and a mentor in Rose...
92) The rackets
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Fired from the mayor's office, a political flack ends up in his old neighborhood, with a newly dangerous mission Jimmy Dolan should have known better than to shove Frankie Keefe. Keefe may be scum-a corrupt teamster president who's looking forward to crushing Jimmy's father in the next union election-but Jimmy is the mayor's right hand man, and kowtowing to scum is his job. After hearing one too many cracks about his father, Jimmy shoves the union...
93) Among thieves
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"Olivia Sanchez--smart, driven, and beautiful--started at the bottom and worked her way up the ranks of a brokerage firm only to be unjustly, brutally fired, then blackballed. With no place else to go, she turns to her cousin, Manny Guzman, ex-con and ex-gang leader, for help. Manny's first instinct is to hit back. Hard. But his partner, James Beck knows that out in the real world, things aren't done that way. Beck, with a tight group of three other...
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Washed-up P.I. Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But when he flamed out of an academic career, he had to return to bleak Utica, New York, where his aging father Silvio is a political kingmaker still cutting deals and hustling appointments, and his all-but-in-blood brother Antonio Robinson is the city's first black Chief of Police. But now Antonio's...
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Stoney gave up drinking, but it couldn't save his marriage. Leaving the big house in New Jersey to his wife and kids, he's living in the City-still working the profitable, if not 100 percent legal, angles with his partner, "Fat Tommy Bagadonuts." Then, out of the blue, Stoney's teenage daughter shows up with a problem: an unwanted admirer who needs to be cooled down . . . or eliminated.
But the secrets Marisa's been keeping from her father-like her...
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Four friends, recent college graduates, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise-quick, efficient, low risk-works like a charm. Until they kidnap the wrong man. Now two groups they've very much wanted to avoid are after them-the law, in the form of veteran state investigator Kirk Stevens and hotshot young FBI agent Carla Windermere, and an...
97) Hawke's War
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When Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke investigates a sniper ambushing four hikers in West Texas's Big Bend National Park, he gets caught in the same sniper's crosshairs.
98) Arcadia burns
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"When Rosa Alcantara becomes the head of a Sicilian Mafia family, she must contend with her family's sordid past and the secrets that keep haunting the present"--
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Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 1
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A sequel to Mario Puzo's novel, "The Godfather," continues the saga of the Corleone family, beginning in 1955 and recounting the events that occurred between the end of the original novel and the episodes chronicled in Coppola's movie sequels.
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Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 2
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Even though he is determined to kill former capo Nick Geraci and questions begin to surface regarding the mob's involvement in the assassination of President Jimmy Shea, Michael Corleone tries to legitimize his family name.
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