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Series
In Death series volume 53
Wheeler large print hardcover
In death novel volume 53
In death novel volume 5
Wheeler large print hardcover
In death novel volume 53
In death novel volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change-and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and...
Author
Series
Phil Broker novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When former cop Phil Broker's naïve ex-wife, Caren, blows the whistle on her feckless second husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop making a cool $2 million moonlighting for the Chicago mob, she unwittingly signs her own death warrant. Unwisely for Caren, she not only shared her troubles with Broker, she also told Tom James, a reporter with fantasies of pulling off the perfect crime. Inspired by the $2 million payoff she entrusted to his safekeeping,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years ago the Butcher Boy was betrayed by the Mafia, exacted his revenge, and disappeared. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believed he ever existed. Now the professional killer finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won't stop coming, and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division, receives a late-night...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meeting a dire end after double-crossing her lover, a ruthless crime lord, the cynical, amoral, and manipulative Drea returns to life a changed woman and joins forces with the FBI to become a guardian of the defenseless and the lover of an enigmatic stranger.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat'the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife. Huda...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Abby Miller is determined to find her missing FBI informant father before the mafia does, but time is ticking away. Someone tried to kill her father before he disappeared--and now gunmen are on her trail. Teaming with Agent Wyatt Kane is her only chance to uncover an FBI mole--and survive the mob. But finding the truth could uncover deadly secrets ... and lead them into a dangerous trap"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade.After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to...
9) Judas horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Detective Jack Warr identifies an informer, the terrified man begins to give details of a massive robbery planned by a team of unscrupulous and dangerous men. These men have already orchestrated many audacious robberies, leaving terrified victims in their wake. And they have already killed to get what they want. Detective Jack Warr and his team must use their informant as a 'Judas Horse' to draw in the unsuspecting robbers, so that they go ahead...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Humiliated after being outed as a whistleblower at work, Stella Reid returns home to Sutter Creek. She's been gone long enough and is determined to mend fences... and immediately comes face-to-face with the man who broke her heart: Sheriff Ryan Rafferty. Reluctant to trust again, Stella learns that Ryan's no longer a careless bad boy when a blizzard traps them together. But as she opens herself up bit by bit, can Stella find the happily-ever-after...
11) Smokin' aces
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a Las Vegas performer turns state's evidence againt the mob, a one million dollar contract is put out on his life with a vast group of characters eager to collect.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When Elizabeth Bentley slunk into an FBI field office in 1945, she was thinking only of saving herself from NKGB assassins who were hot on her trail. She had no idea that she was about to start the greatest Red Scare in U.S. history.Bentley (1908-1963) was a Connecticut Yankee and Vassar graduate who spied for the Soviet Union for seven years. She met with dozens of highly placed American agents who worked for the Soviets, gathering their secrets...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 20
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
14) The informant!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When the FBI needs evidence on an agri-business giant accused of price-fixing, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a secret agent.
15) Knock knock
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen years ago, Detective Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered, and the only survivor was a five-year-old girl. She was placed in the witness protection program and the case went cold, but years later Grens is haunted by it. When he learns that the apartment where the crime occurred is now the scene of a break-in, he fears that someone is intent on silencing the only witness. He races to...
16) The silence
Author
Series
Columbia River novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist. In his home, investigators find pages of diatribes against law enforcement as well as ties to Mason's fiance, FBI special agent Ava McLane. The victim was her informant--and had strong reasons to be paranoid. To Ava, Braswell's rants were...
17) Above suspicion
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A newly married FBI agent is drawn into an illicit affair with his star informant, resulting in a scandal that endangers all his investigations.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers...
19) White Boy Rick
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
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