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41) Gas City
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Language
English
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Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces---greed and corruption, ambition and desire---run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.
A power struggle---between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Anna suffers nightmares and periods of extreme confusion so great that she's barely able to recognize her husband. Doctors are stumped until Anna discovers scars on her scalp and is convinced that her face has been reconstructed, but by whom?
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. But while they long to settle into the comforts of home, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has other plans. He needs them to look into a potential threat not only to the presidency, but to the security of the United States itself. Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los...
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.
47) War of the godfathers: the bloody confrontation of the Chicago and New York families for Las Vegas
Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
49) About face
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A socialite asks Guido Brunetti to investigate a murder that happened in the underworld surrounding southern Italy's garbage dumping grounds.
50) The wrong girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In February of 1926, private detective Ted Oliver is hired by a mysterious client to investigate the death of Graham Peyton, a man known for recruiting high-class prostitutes for the studios until his disappearance five years ago. Thanks to a ferocious Pacific storm, Graham's skeleton is uncovered from its hiding place, under rocks beneath a cliff. As Oliver investigates the final days leading up to Graham's demise, he stumbles across a connection...
Author
Series
Botswana mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One night in Chobe National Park, Ole Anderson, an expert on hyena behavior who's leading a group of trustees from the foundation that funds his research, spots a human skull after witnessing a group of hyenas chasing off a lone lion. Ole brings the grim discovery to park ranger Sanderson, now superintendent of her district, who has been dealing with a "rash of deaths, bodies, and/or their separated parts appearing in her park." Kgabo Modise, her...
54) State of grace
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell's Kitchen after a mysterious ten year absence, he immediately rejoins the Irish mob run by Frankie Flannery and soon finds himself torn between loyalty for his Irish cronies and loyalty to a secret that could bring them down.
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 1
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2018}
Language
English
Description
After bouncer Joe Brody is arrested during a crackdown on his friend's strip club, he agrees to help FBI Agent Donna Zamora in a hunt for terrorists, as they race against time to stop a criminal mastermind who is plotting to unleash a mass attack.
"In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just...
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Language
English
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Description
"Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style thirty years old, living and working...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Meet the men who murdered for the moband made John Gotti the most powerful and deadly crime boss in America . . . They called him the “Teflon Don.” But in his short reign as the head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti wracked up a lifetime of charges from gambling, extortion, and tax evasion to racketeering, conspiracy, and five convictions of murder. He didn't do it alone. Surrounding himself with a rogues gallery of contract killers, fixers,...
Author
Publisher
Trine Day LLC
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
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Description
The Dunes operation was intricate and mysterious at times, protected by secrecy and intrigue. It featured different operators and Mob characters who, at various times in the history of the hotel, were involved in various ventures, including gambling, bookmaking, real estate investment, and many other business arrangements.
"The intent behind this book is to record classic Las Vegas history that would be lost forever if not memorialized.” The Dunes...
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