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2022.
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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"The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White—veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity—when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind. A reluctant ex-spy...
3) The force
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All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is the "King of Manhattan North," a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of "Da Force." Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest -- an elite special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs, and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he's spent on the "Job," Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing...
4) Triple 9
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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A bank robbery is just the tip of the iceberg when two cops in Atlanta start suspecting members of their own team are involved. Not knowing who to trust and how deep the corruption goes, time is ticking for them to uncover the truth, before they become the target for the next deadly job.
5) Blackway
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2017]
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English
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Lester (Anthony Hopkins), a man still haunted by the memory of his own daughter's death, comes to the aid of a young woman, Lillian (Julia Stiles), who is being viciously harassed by a sadistic and untouchable rogue cop, Blackway (Ray Liotta). Together with Lester's quiet, but fiercely loyal friend Nate (Alexander Ludwig), this unlikely trio relentlessly and against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, sets out to hunt down this psychopath culminating...
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Tank Rizzo novels volume 2
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Former NYPD detective Tank Rizzo and his partner, Pearl, tackle two corruption cases involving a dirty cop who is sending innocents to jail and the money-laundering accounting firm behind his brother's mysterious death.
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King Oliver novels volume 1
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PI Joe King Oliver, once one of the NYPD's finest investigators, realizes that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of--and why.
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black...
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The influential financier and philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's and Palm Beach's elites. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. That unceasing desire-- and especially a taste for underage girls--resulted in his stunning fall from grace in the...
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Spenser novel volume 40
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"Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise 16 year old girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for"-- Provided by publisher.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2018]
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English
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After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
12) Dream chaser
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Dream team (Kristen Ashley) volume 2
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2020.
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English
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When her niece and nephew are put in danger and dirty cops begin gunning for her, Ryn Jansen is forced to trust Boone Sadler, a protective commando who is determined to prove his love while keeping her alive.
To protect herself from yet another bad apple, Ryn Jansen vows to stay far away from commando Boone Sadler. Boone confronts Ryn with evidence that her loved ones are conning her, and Ryn is disappointed with both her family and Boone. Boone...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
14) Heat rises
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Nikki Heat mysteries volume 3
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The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD.
"In the third book of the New York Times bestselling Nikki Heat series,...
15) Out of death
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[2021]
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English
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On the run from dirty cops who committed murder deep in the woods, a lone hiker finds an unlikely ally in retired cop Jack Harris. The pair must stick together to survive the wilderness and the human predators within it.
16) Sleepless city
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Blackstone Publishing
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2022.
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English
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"When you're in trouble, you call 911. When cops are in trouble, they call Nick Ryan. Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private...
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Chicago Review Press
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[2021]
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English
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"The cold-case murder of John Hughes, the son of a Chicago Outfit member suspected of pulling the trigger, and the efforts of a determined detective to unravel a cover-up. A murder that had roiled the city and had been investigated for years had been reduced to a few reports and photographs. What should have been a massive file with notes and transcripts from dozens of interviews was nowhere to be found. Chicago Police Detective James Sherlock could...
19) Seven girls gone
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"When nobody will talk and corruption runs deep, turning to outsiders is the only way to make sure women stop disappearing… For three years, women have been going missing—and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau’s...
20) The renegades
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Patrolling a section of America's West that he finds just as untamed as those depicted in early pulp novels, Charlie Hood finds his preference for working alone overruled when he is assigned to partner with a popular county veteran whose subsequent murder reveals sinister truths behind the man's stellar reputation.
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