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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Bronx-native Bernard Slotnick's mantra was that everyone deserved a good defense. And he was the best defender out there. A bold strategist in the courtroom, and a doting husband and father of four at home, 'Liberty's Last Champion' proudly stood up for the unpopular and the controversial, including: John Gotti, head of the Gambino crime family; Joe Colombo Sr., inspiration for The Godfather; Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League;...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
4) Blue moon
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 24
Language
English
Description
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another,...
5) The Lost
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's backyard. He's always kept it local, attending the University of Miami on a football scholarship and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the leader of an FBI task force called Operation Guardian, he is combating international crime. Moon's investigative team discovers that the opportunistic "Blood Brothers"-- Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff-- have evaded authorities...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck volume 12
Language
English
Description
"In which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences" -- Provided by publisher.
"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his...
7) Daylight
Author
Series
Atlee Pine volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed"--
8) Blind tiger
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for"--
9) Loyalty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
"Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome laborer toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning a lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. When the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy, Franco makes a decision that will change...
10) The witness
Author
Language
English
Description
Having had a traumatic experience twelve years prior, Abigail Lowery lives in a remote area in a house with high-tech security measures, but this only serves to further intrigue police chief Brooks Gleason, who aims to protect Abigail.
11) American dirt
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiance, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
Author
Series
Scarpetta novel volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fianc�e, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case--an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,...
Author
Series
A Jack Swyteck novel volume 16
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After taking a case at the heart of the immigration debate, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck may not be able to save Julia and her daughter when an enemy from their past tracks them to south Florida.
Author
Series
Danny Ryan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and...
20) Zenith man
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
320 pages : 25-35 IMAGES FOR 16 PAGE INSER ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic Zenith TV repair man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence.