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Publisher
Acquisition - Ppc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In this gripping crime thriller, Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past. With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth: sometimes, it's best to let sleeping...
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When a rogue insurgent blackmails the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and framing the government, the agency must lure its most brilliant yet rebellious operative out of retirement to unravel the international conspiracy.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A heist is being set up to be pulled off by Doc, who has recruited a small gang to help him carry it out. Everything he could possibly think of was taken care of, down to the very last detail. It's the night of the heist and suddenly Doc's luck turns sour when betrayal strikes and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
Publisher
Paramount Television Studios
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In the final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jack is promoted to CIA Acting Deputy Director and finds himself on his most dangerous mission yet! He is appointed with the daunting task of unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero's belief in the system he has always fought to protect.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is found murdered, and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police, providing...
8) Wolf Creek
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A chilling, factually based story of three road-trippers in remote Australia who are plunged into danger when they accept help from a friendly local. Bonus features include commentary, deleted scenes, making of the movie, and more.
9) Marlowe
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Five-hundred bucks doesn't come easily for private eye Philip Marlowe. But when it comes by way of a bribe, it might as well be five cents. He rejects Winslow Wong and his offer of cash, and Wong promptly karates the detective's office into a junk pile. In a colorful whodunit based on Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, Garner's easygoing style contrasts agreeably with the grim task of sleuthing a case of missing persons, blackmail and ice-pick...
Author
Publisher
Midway, an Agate Imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Created from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, Gangsters and Grifters is a collection of photographs featuring infamous criminals, small-time bandits, hoodlums, and more at shocking crime scenes. These vintage glass-plate and acetate negatives were taken from the early 1900s through the 1950s, and they have been largely unseen for generations. That is because most have never been published, only having been witnessed by the photographers and police...
Publisher
Cbs
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Magnum P.I. is a modern series about Thomas Magnum, a former Navy SEAL who becomes a private investigator. Living on a luxurious estate and working as a security consultant, Magnum uses his military skills to solve cases, while also indulging in his love for vintage cars and the Detroit Tigers.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Who really killed "Crazy Joe" Gallo? At last, the truth can be told. And it wasn't Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran as he claimed. From acclaimed true-crime author Michael Benson and real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the shocking and brutal story ofCarmine DiBiase-aka Sonny Pinto-the elusive Mafia killer who went from small-time street punk to FBI's Most Wanted list to Death Row-only to be released on the streets to kill and kill again...among...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the family that owned the largest chain of bread factories in the country, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a violent gang of "shadow men," blackmailers who extorted their victims' moral weaknesses. From the start, one question defined...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs with their husbands and children, thirty-something Hannah finds new community in an internet true crime forum that's on a mission to solve the murders of four women who were dumped in a ravine outside Atlanta. When a handsome lawyer named William is arrested for the killings, with evidence of his guilt piling up as quickly as the bodies, Hannah begins writing him letters as another...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war. On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Into the vacuum-before...
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir.
It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organised crime world, has been banished
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 2018, a powerful app for secure communications, called Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary safeguards to keep out prying eyes--the power to quickly wipe data, voice-masking technology, and more. It was better than other apps popular among organized crime syndicates, except for one thing: it was secretly run by law enforcement. Over the next few years, the FBI, along with law enforcement...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Lauren Spierer-a gregarious young woman at a crossroads in her life-vanished from Indiana University in 2011, her story drew global attention from celebrities and news outlets such as People magazine, CNN, Fox News, and USA Today. What made the caseso confounding to those outlets was that the 20-year-old was out with dozens of classmates in a bustling university town on the night she went missing. She was seen in public by witnesses and security...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum emigrated to New York from Germany and worked as a rag peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side. By the 1870s she was a widow with four children, a popular society hostess, and a philanthropist. What enabled a woman onthe margins of nineteenth-century American life to ascend from tenement poverty to immense wealth? In the intervening years, Mrs. Mandelbaum had become the country's most notorious "fence"-a receiver...
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