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22) Gangster
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing his father and a shadowy past, Angelo Vestieri finds a second family in early twentieth-century New York's mob, where he encounters dangerous betrayals and an abandoned boy in need of a father figure.
23) The good guys
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former head of the Bonnano crime family, Bill Bonnano, and former undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) have collaborated with David Fisher on a riveting thriller about organized crime. Set in New York City in the mid-1980s, The Good Guys finds the Russian Mafia, the Italian Mafia and the Feds racing against each other to track down a mysterious professor of Russian languages from Columbia University. Rumors circulate that the professor...
Author
Series
Novel of the FBI volume 6
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Endeavoring to counter the workings of the Brooklyn mafia, FBI squad member Nick Vanko struggles with a disfiguring accident and his attraction to newcomer Sheila, who is obsessed with an unsolved serial murder case.
25) Cry wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sebastiano Cangio is loving his dream job as a ranger in the stunning Sybillines national park in mystical Umbria. Then the first body is found. Recognizing the hallmarks of a mafia killing and determined to stop Umbria being destroyed by organized crime, Cangio is pitted against a trail of bodies, greed and corruption that leads right to the top.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A prequel to "The Godfather" continues the saga of the Corleone family during the Great Depression, when Vito hides the truth of his occupation from his children and engages in violent measures to secure his family's fortunes at the end of the Prohibition Era.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Protecting a terrified young woman who has witnessed a crime in 1942 Texas, Ranger Virgil Tucker is drawn into the dangerous world of the New Orleans mafia when the murder of a prominent attorney reveals a takeover plot against Galveston's gambling empire.
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Shantaram continues Australian fugitive Lin's search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
Author
Series
Forensic Instincts volume 6
Publisher
Bonnie Meadow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In A Face to Die For, New York Times bestselling author Andrea Kane explores the urban legend of the doppelganger, as the readers' favorite team of investigators (Forensic Instincts) find themselves in a conflict of interest between two clients. When one case unexpectedly intersects with the other, the only solution is to find the link between the two and unearth who is pulling the strings and why.
30) Vanilla ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine--best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions--find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia and the lethal Vanilla Ride after an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive, no-good drug dealer.
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 9
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"DeMarco always knew that his father Gino had a shady job for a local mafioso, but he didn't understand that Gino had been a hitman until he was murdered. Now, nearly twenty years later, one of Gino's former mob associates is dying of lung cancer, and he wants to get something off his chest before retiring to his grave: the truth about Gino's killer"--Amazon.com.
32) Shadowed loyalty
Author
Publisher
Chrism Press, a division of WhiteFire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Shadowed Loyalty, set amid the glitz and scandal of the Roaring Twenties, examines what love really means and how we draw lines between family and our own convictions, especially when following one could mean losing the other."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
New Orleans underboss Carlo Tramonti, one of Michael Corleone's underlings, is deported to Colombia by order of the attorney general, brother of the President. He sneaks back to retaliate and ends up changing the course of U.S. politics.
34) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
""If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." -- Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But...
35) The godfather
Author
Series
Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 1
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1969-]
Language
English
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Description
A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that was passed on from father to son. With its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, it resonated with millions of readers across the world-and became the definitive novel of the virile, violent subculture that remains...
36) Trunk music
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge. But his first case is a little more than he bargained for. It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit. But the LAPD's organized crime unit is curiously uninterested, and when Harry follows a trail of gambling debts...
37) Debt to Pay
Author
Series
Jesse Stone volume 15
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...
Author
Publisher
John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Affable young parking valet Tyler Benson, a master of bad timing, is accidentally involved in cases of auto theft and murder on the lot at Alba, an upscale Seattle restaurant. There's a body in a parked car, and someone shooting at tech zillionaire Scott Duckworth. Mysterious Italian beauty Flavia Torcelli and even Tyler's spectacularly unsuccessful dad seem somehow connected to the crime wave. The more Tyler tries to sort things out, the more the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For Aloysius Tucker, taking his nine-year-old cousin Maria sledding is all about frozen toes and hot coffee in the warming house. It shouldn't involve chasing after Maria as she's led into a long black car by a stranger in a Bruins jacket. But by the end of the crisp December morning Maria is gone, her mother is dead, and her father--mafia don Sal--has been arrested for murder.
40) Fifty-to-one
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-050
Publisher
Hard case Crime
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
It's 1958, and a sleazy New York pulp-fiction publisher finds himself in trouble after publishing a supposedly non-fiction account of a heist at a Mafia-run nightclub which was actually written by an 18 year-old showgirl with ambitions of writing for the New Yorker. With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them.
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