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• Beijing Payback

  Nieh, Daniel,

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  A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder.

• Bone in the Throat

  Bourdain, Anthony

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  A gangster comedy set in a restaurant in New York's Little Italy. The hero is Tommy Pagano, a chef who becomes involved in an FBI sting against the Mafia. A first novel by a cook, currently chef of The Supper Club in New York City.

• City on Fire

  Winslow, Don, 1953-

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  Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.

• Cruz

  Ferraro, Nicolás, 1986-

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  Set in northern Argentina, this grim crime novel centers on law-abiding Tomás Cruz, son of an infamous underworld thug, who can't escape his family's legacy of criminality.

• Death Prefers Blondes

  Roehrig, Caleb,

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  Teen celebrity socialite Margo leads a double life as a cat burglar with a crew of four kickboxing drag queens, but when a big job goes belly-up, each one of them must rely on their special skills to survive the night.

• Evil Genius

  Jinks, Catherine,

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  Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

• The Family

  Krupitsky, Naomi,

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  A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.

• Harlem Shuffle

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Two-time Pulitzer winner Whitehead (The Underground Railroad; The Nickel Boys) has fun and shows off his literary dexterity with this rollicking crime novel set in 1960s Harlem.

• Hunting Whitey

  the Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss

  Sherman, Casey, 1969-

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  For the first time, Boston reporters Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge draw on exclusive interviews and exhaustive investigative reportage to tell the complete story of Whitey Bulger, one of the most notorious crime bosses in American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• KinnPorsche. 1

  Daemi,

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  Ever since the tragic death of his parents, Porsche's life has been a balancing act between attending college and bartending to support his younger brother and pay off his deadbeat uncle's gambling debt. When he witnesses a gang of thugs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lake County

  Roy, Lori,

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  Set in the 1950s, this thriller by Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, tying her fate to a dreamy teenager whose boyfriend runs afoul of the mob.

• The Last Honest Man

  the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys--and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

  Risen, James,

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  This is the tale of Idaho senator Frank Church, who challenged intelligence abuses following the Watergate scandal. In the process, he uncovered assassination plots by the CIA, links between the Kennedys and the Mafia, and the surveillance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Low Desert

  Gangster Stories

  Goldberg, Tod,

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  By turn surreal, tragic, and darkly funny, the 12 stories in this collection hold up a mirror to the unique landscape of Southern California's Inland Empire.

• Loyalty

  Scottoline, Lisa,

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  Scottoline brings nineteenth-century Sicily alive in this historical thriller with fairy-tale themes, revenge quests, and compelling heroes reminiscent of William Goldman's The Princess Bride.

• The Missing American

  Quartey, Kwei,

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  When her dreams of rising through the police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her life in Accra. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mobsters in Love

  Origami, Chiyoko,

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  A wholesome rom-com featuring a handsome but oblivious mob boss and his young, simplehearted but moody second-in-command.

• The Night of Baba Yaga

  Ōtani, Akira, 1981-

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  Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Opium Prince

  Aimaq, Jasmine,

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  Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero-turned-magnate, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul for the first time as the head of a US foreign…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pyromantic

  McBride, Lish,

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  When a mysterious illness starts to affect the magical community, it's up to Ava, who can start fires with her mind, and her team to stop its spread...or else one of them might be next.

• Queenie

  Godmother of Harlem

  Colomba, Elizabeth,

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  Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New…Read moreRead more of this annotation