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1) The firm
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations.
2) The Lost
Author
Series
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
4) High stakes
Author
Language
English
Description
"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor--a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between tow Russian mafia bosses...
5) Robicheaux
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 21
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 5th "novel in [the author's] series about the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless-- voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he's got one more job to do--bring down Stagg's criminal operations for good. At least that's the plan."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a years-long case against a powerful mobster finally cracks and an unimpeachable witness takes the stand, federal prosecutor Nora Carleton is looking forward to putting the defendant away for good. The mobster, though, has other plans. As the witness's testimony concludes, a note is passed to the prosecution offering up information into the assassination of a disgraced former New York governor, murdered in his penthouse apartment just days before....
8) Betrayal
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. But tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped. Who is the boy and where did he come from? Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead. Was...
10) The spider heist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Blair Morgan's world is in shambles. After being used as a scapegoat by a corrupt former boss, she is unceremoniously fired from the FBI. Now, with her reputation, pride, and years of service stripped away, Blair just wants to start over. But when a chance date turns into a mysterious job offer, her past comes crashing back to haunt her. In a flash, Blair becomes entangled in a high stakes bank heist. Her status as a former FBI-agent-turned-hostage...
11) The informant
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Years after the Butcher's Boy wipes out several mobsters and disappears, Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is approached by the mythical hit man, who asks her for crucial information in exchange for helping her to crack an unsolved murder case.
12) The sky thieves
Author
Series
A Spider heist thriller volume 2
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Blair Morgan has embraced her second career--as an elite thief. Her heist crew has set their sights on their latest target: the Sierra Diamond, an 872-carat stone worth $27.3 million. It will be encased in a new vault known as the Sky Safe, a revolutionary strong room built into the side of a Los Angeles high rise. The FBI says the Sky Safe is impenetrable. Naturally, Blair and her crew think otherwise...and if they succeed, it will be the greatest...
13) Love and fear
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gulliver Dowd sets out to help find the daughter of the most powerful Mafia don in New York. His motivations are mixed, as the don holds the key to the mystery of the murder of Dowd's sister, Keisha, but refuses to share that knowledge with Gulliver. Still, Dowd makes a devil's deal and hunts for the girl. Will Dowd find her, or will old secrets and lies boil to the surface and destroy the lives of everyone involved?
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
After the apparent suicide of a famous movie producer, his co-producer hires Cape Weathers to find out the truth about his death. With the help of his friend Sally, an assassin raised by the Triads, Cape uncovers a connection between the producer's death and the drug war between the tong gangs of Chinatown and the Russian mob.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William 'Shoe' Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There's been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill--an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene. The...
16) The fifth bandit
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn River Publishing/Regiment Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
They've broken into safes and out of prison, but their greatest heist may be their last. The Sky Thieves have conquered their worst enemy. Now they face an even greater threat: the ruthless mentor who brought him to power. Uncovering the mentor's identity is their first step to staying out of jail and exercising their own personal brand of justice--by stealing from the mentor's incalculable wealth. But they aren't the only ones looking for clues,...
17) The frozen woman
Author
Publisher
No Exit Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In the depths of the Norwegian winter, a woman's frozen corpse is discovered in the garden of a notorious ex-lawyer, Vilhelm Thygesen. She has been stabbed to death. A young biker, a member of a gang once represented by the lawyer, is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Thygesen starts receiving anonymous threats, and becomes ensnared in a web of violence, crime and blackmail that spreads across Northern Europe. Does the frozen woman hold the...
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 3
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens. For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, who is missing in the middle of a tong war brewing over the stolen corpse of gang leader Bing Ah Kee. Meanwhile, his partner, Sabina Carpenter, searches for the corpse of a millionaire, which...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
When an ancient talisman is smuggled out of Hong Kong, a container ship full of Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz and the crew is murdered. The Chinese Triad believe a female assassin named Sally who was trained by the Triad is to blame but when Sally goes missing, they turn their attention to her sometimes partner, a San Francisco detective named Cape Weathers.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st HarperLuxe ed.
Physical Desc
512 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body that is linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members' club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong.