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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The narrative unfolds like a high-stakes crime novel."-Kirkus Reviews
In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman.
Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of "doctors" well known to police...
4) Cherif
Publisher
MHz
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Captain Kader Cherif is a brilliant and eccentric detective in this addictive, long-running French mystery series set in Lyon.
6) The Coroner
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to her native coastal town, to take the post of coroner.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, in 1963, after Trish Weir is kidnapped and sexually assaulted, her assailant is caught and tried. But after he confesses without legal representation and is granted a retrial, it triggers a legal proceeding that forever changes the nation's justice system.
8) Cherif: S1
Publisher
MHz
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Captain Kader Cherif is a brilliant and eccentric detective in this addictive, long-running French mystery series set in Lyon.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Burlington has long been known as the shining jewel in Vermont's crown, but a current of darkness flows beneath this charming port on Lake Champlain.
There is a sordid side to the city that top-ten lists routinely call "one of the country's most livable cities," with stories of dirty cops, notorious ladies of the night, knife wielding psychopaths, lovers off the deep end and famous serial killers.
Author and tour guide Thea Lewis showcases the...
10) Gigli
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From director Martin Brest comes GIGLI, an unconventional romantic comedy starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. When low-level hood Larry Gigli (Affleck) is given an assignment that gets him in way over his head, Ricki (Lopez), a gorgeous free spirited female enforcer is sent in to assist him. Gigli finds himself falling for the unavailable Ricki and goes to great lengths to win her affection. Yet the harder she resists him, the stronger their...
Author
Language
English
Description
“Strange Trade” tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss.
A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison-and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal...
12) Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the F.B.I. Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos
Author
Language
English
Description
Leaving Vegas a fascinating glimpse into the world of Kansas City mobsters in the 1970sYou don't have to be a local history buff to be interested in the chronicles of Kansas City's infamous mob family. Those of us who were around here in the mid-1970s recall the headlines. Gary Jenkins, a former police detective (now attorney and author) takes us back to the players and key events of those days in Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the FBI Wiretaps...
Author
Language
English
Description
The author has written a how to book on the art of conduct a surveillance on criminals. Gary Jenkins is a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective and Gary uses real life situations to entertain and educate the reader in the art of surveillance. He tells about sitting in roach infested apartments for days and days, following a serial killer on foot though the back alleys of Kansas City and following professional criminals as they move...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This is book 1 of the Silent Havoc MC series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now!It was a fake wedding so wrong that it nearly destroyed us both.JACEI tried to be a hero once. But when the girl I vowed to protect died, I swore that I would never be that kind of man again.That's until Katie shows up at my door, begging for my help.She's gorgeous. Red hair, long legs, and a mouth like sin.So I make her a deal: to keep her from her abusive ex,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This is book 1 of the Caliperi Family Mafia series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now!My hands are bound, but my mouth is wide open.And that's just the way he likes it.But behind the mafioso's façade of cruelty is a glimmer of a heart.If I can break down his walls, maybe we'll find a way out of this hellhole.Because if his employer finds out that Lucas put a baby in my womb…They'll never let us out of here alive.TRINAThere's no such thing...
16) Broken (Book 1)
Author
Language
English
Description
This is book 3 and the finale of the Broken Bad Boy Hitman Romance series!
Ruthless hitman. Violent mobster. Utterly irresistible.
He took me home and showed me what it meant to be his woman.
Then he disappeared.
Now, he's back, with a bloody mission in his hands.
And a plan to break me again.
MADELINE
I woke up sick to my stomach.
My worst fears had come true.
A one night stand with a handsome stranger…
Left me with his baby in my belly.
I...
17) Havoc (Book 3)
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This is book 3 and the finale of the Blood Eagles MC series!
I broke every rule to make her mine.
She was sent to keep me under wraps.
But no one tells me what to do.
I don't give a damn if her brother says she's off-limits:
This one's belongs to me.
CAIN
My body is still aching from that beatdown.
But I'm fired up, looking for someone to take my anger out on.
I want revenge – not just for me, but for my MC.
The Blood Eagles are a family,...
18) The ComDads
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Français
Description
Christine (Anny Duperey) is distraught when her adolescent son runs away. When the cops are no help, she contacts two former lovers -- François (Pierre Richard), a suicidal teacher, and Jean Lucas (Gérard Depardieu), a burly journalist working on a story about the Mafia. She then convinces them to help find her boy by claiming that she believes one of the men is her son's father. Although they make a poor team, the two set off on a quest to find...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
After his father abandons the family, Autumn Moon (Sam Lee) drops out of high school and becomes a money collector for organized criminals the Triads. On his rounds, he meets and falls in love with Ping (Neiky Yim Hui-Chi), a daughter of one of the Triads' debtors. She is suffering from a fatal kidney disease, and to pay for her medical expenses, Autumn Moon takes an assassination contract, but as he slips deeper into the criminal underworld, he's...
20) Tsotsi
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A criminal turned killer realizes that the woman he murdered left a baby in the backseat of her car, and soon becomes more attached to the tot than he ever thought possible.
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