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Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about its proprietary AIs, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch...
64) Get real
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Dortmunder, a seasoned but often scoreless crook, gets a chance at fame and fortune when a television producer decides to make Dortmunder and his gang into a reality show, and while the guys make plans for their next caper under the eye of the camera, Dortmunder and his partner arrange a private money-making scheme on the side.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits,) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The Press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what's he actually doing? In fact,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
℗♭1974
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jailed for a joke. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this practical joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold K©ơnt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose..."...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books edition.
Physical Desc
981 pages 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're also all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He doesn't have magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family--except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago. Cassel has carefully...
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1954, Bernie Gunther is arrested smuggling a woman out of Cuba and is soon being being questioned in the United States and Germany about war crimes. As the interrogations continue, Bernie, a former German homicide detective and private investigator who served unwillingly in the SS during World War II, reveals the story of his life while cracking jokes and playing his enemies off against each other, even with his life at risk.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the seedy adventures of a Jersey City family of criminals, bookies, con artists, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes and the author's experiences growing up in such an environment.
70) Heat 2: a novel
Author
Publisher
Michael Mann Books/William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis ... is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna. ... Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis's brother in arms Neil McCauley ... in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna's determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley's crew. ... In 1988, seven years earlier,...
71) The father
Author
Series
Made in Sweden volume 1
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
585 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who held Sweden to ransom, committing ten audacious bank robberies over just two years. None had committed a crime before. All were under 24 years old. All of them would be changed forever. The fourth brother, who was not involved in the real robberies, tells of three boys who grew from innocent children to become public enemy number one - and of the man who made them that way.
72) The road to ruin
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
John Dortmunder and his gang of thieves pose as servants in order to secure work at the Pennsylvania estate of corrupt CEO Monroe Hall for the express purpose of stealing Hall's multi-million dollar collection of vintage cars, but their plan begins to fall apart when they discover there are others out there who want Hall to pay for the losses they suffered as a result of his criminal activities.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a city "in its brawny postwar prime," is where "Little Joe" Regino and Russ Shorto build a local gambling empire on the earnings of factory workers for whom placing a bet-on a horse or pool game, pinball or "tip seal"-is their best shot at the American dream. Decades later, Russell Shorto grew up knowing that his grandfather...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PD Most of us have never heard of Israel Keyes. But he is one of the most ambitious, meticulous serial killers of modern time. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor...
Author
Series
Detective Varg novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the art scene in Malmö. So when art historian Anders Kindgren visits the Department of Sensitive Crimes to report a series of bizarre acts that have been committed against him, Ulf and his team swing into action. Fish stuffed into the vents of Kindgren’s car and a manipulated footnote in a recent publication would be cause enough for an investigation, but when a painting Kindgren...
76) My favorite scar
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to be patching up Víctor's latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them. Although she has come to terms with the realities of her life and enjoys aspects...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the very last thing he expects to find stashed in the client's refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: dark-op government agents who want...
78) What's so funny?
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hapless crook John Dortmunder cares nothing about righting ancient wrongs or for the game of chess. He is however, interested in finding a highly valuable, 700-pound chess set which was said to have been a planned gift for the last Russian czar. As he reunites his merry band of crooks, the treasure hunt is troubled from the beginning. There are few leads, so Dortmunder turns to ex-cop Johnny Eppick for help.
79) The Devil's code
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
80) Stillhouse Lake
Author
Series
Stillhouse Lake novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Gina Royal is the definition of average--a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor--the ultimate warrior mom. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with...
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