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Author
Publisher
Collins Crime Club
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
724 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, the book traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world's most popular form of fiction"--NoveList Plus.
2) Betrayal
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family... and Kerrigan's only...
Author
Language
English
Description
"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. Too bad she's now the target for Britain's first female policewomen who is determined to prove herself. When she hears about the large-scale heist in the works to fund Alice's new dynasty, she realizes it's the chance she's been looking for--and the added bonus of putting Diamond Annie out...
4) The takedown
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unrelentingly successful CIA field officer, she has spent the last five years pretending to be someone - anyone - other than herself. But this year, the festive season is coming with some added surprises. Sydney's beloved little sister has just announced that she's engaged to Johnny Jones, the heir of an organized crime dynasty. With her built-in cover and her best-in-class reputation, Sydney is approached by the FBI as their way to infiltrate...
5) Hero
Author
Language
English
Description
"Justine Poole provides security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars, but that all changes when a job puts her in the limelight. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients--killing two of the five armed robbers in the process--she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts her in the crosshairs of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries. Unable to stand the embarrassment...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Instant New York Times Bestseller
"The Godfather for our generation." — Adrian McKinty
"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the best for last." — James Patterson
From New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow comes City in Ruins – his epic, genre-defining crime masterpiece . . . and the final novel
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mafia hit-man-turned-rabbi Sal Cupertine is ready to get out of the life. But it's not going to be easy. His once-brilliant plan to pass himself off as Rabbi David Cohen is unraveling. Enemies on both sides of the law are hot on his trail. His wife and son are unreachable in witness protection and are probably in danger. In order to find his family, get out of the desert alive, and salvage his long-sought-after happy ending, Sal is going to have...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent in World War II-era Boston find themselves led down a dangerous trail of espionage, organized crime, and domestic fascism -- one that implicates their own tangled pasts and threatens to expose a larger pattern of conspiracy than either of them could have imagined.
Author
Language
English
Description
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
Publisher
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (252 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mystery 101: When a college student is found dead, English professor Amy uses her crime fiction expertise to unravel the case faster than detective Travis, who ends up working with Amy to catch the killer.
Playing dead: The local theater is producing a mystery that crime fiction expert Amy unearthed. When one of the actress' life is threatened, Amy & Travis must uncover which character is playing for keeps.
Words can kill: When a guest at the college...
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Series
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Not everyone gets to be the hero. Qi'ra listened to the dreams and promises of a boy with a reckless smile, only to be torn away from him and returned to the White Worms gang while Han made his way to freedom. Now freedom seems like a luxury she can't afford while she concentrates on survival and despairs of ever leaving Corellia. But her fortunes seem to turn when a representative of the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn plucks Qi'ra from captivity and...
12) Cape Rage
Author
Series
Danny Barrett volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Danny Barrett investigates a family of criminals with long-standing smuggling business in the Pacific Northwest after the FBI suspects them of robbing a bank in Seattle"--
Author
Series
Harry Ingram mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
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