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2012., Adult, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MYS Fic Pat Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 11TH HOUR is the most shocking, most emotional, and most thrilling Women's Murder Club novel ever. Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the discovery of severed heads in a movie star's garden - and a vigilante targeting the city's most despised criminals.
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2023., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: NEW Fic Cru Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking a measure of revenge on the person they despise most in the world. As their unshakeable animosity spirals further each year into vendettas and violence, the community is increasingly divided and even the innocents in Mockbeggar find themselves forced to take sides, with devastating consequences.
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2023., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Kap Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family--loved by some, loathed by others, feared by all.
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c2013., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Sod Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly obsession... All of their paths will collide.
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2005., Pre-adolescent, Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Batman (1989) Edition: Widescreen/Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Batman begins his protection of Gotham City. He battles against a corrupt police force, mob gangsters and the worst villian of all ... The Joker.
![Batman [DVD] (1989). Directed by Tim Burton](/Library/images/~imageCT78746.JPG "Batman [DVD] (1989). Directed by Tim Burton")
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2014., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Call No: Fic Bez Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere 24 hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed.
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2015., Bitter Lemon Press Summary Note: One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack and pockets it along with the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption. When police locate the crash site, the pilot's body is missing and a large-scale search ensues. Our hero, now involved in a busted cocaine deal, ends up owing a Bolivian drug gang so..
![The body snatcher [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT80970.JPG "The body snatcher [eBook]")
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c2011., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Ell Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jason Kolarich novels Volume: 2Summary Note: "Jason Kolarich has spent the past year struggling to recover from the horrific deaths of his wife and baby daughter. On the night of their deaths, Kolarich was at the office, awaiting a call from a confidential informant named Ernesto Ramirez -- a call that never came. Kolarich blames himself not only for the deaths of his wife and child, but for the informant's murder as well. He can't bring back his family, but he can find out who killed Ramirez and bring the killer to justice. Unfortunately, Kolarich's guns-blazing approach to justice lands him smack in the middle of an FBI probe of a deeply corrupt governor and his cronies. To avoid jail, Kolarich must enter a world of wiretaps, double-dealing, and kickbacks, where he soon discovers that the murder of his informant was only the tip of the iceberg. This breach of trust runs up to the highest levels of power, and exposing it may drag Kolarich into the fight of his life."--Publisher.
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c2004., John Wiley & Sons Call No: 956.7044 B978m Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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2006., Adult, St. Martin's Minotaur Call No: MYS Fic Xia Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Chen mysteries Volume: bk. 4Summary Note: A Shanghai police inspector struggles against the establishment in his investigation of an important but corrupt businessman. The fourth Inspector Chen Cao mystery.
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2017., Exile Editions Call No: NEW QWF IND Fic Pic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In his first collection of stories, The Chronicles of Kitchike: Taking a Hard Fall, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui takes us on a journey into the heart of a very colourful Indigenous community where traditions, dreams, deprivation and, yes, corruption exist side by side.With image-laden language, he plunges us into the daily life of ordinary men and women facing political, economic, and mythical forces beyond their control. With wry humour and a touch of the fantastic, the author depicts the sometimes tense relationships in Southern Quebec's communities, allowing a snapshot of our multicultural society to be seen between the lines The Chronicles of Kitchike transports us to a unique universe, to a world that is not only comical but also gentle and replete with legend, home to a panoply of characters we're not likely to soon forget!
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1999., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Far Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Émile Cinq-Mars Volume: 1Summary Note: "The torture murder of a college student draws eccentric, brilliant Detective Emile Cinq-Mars into a deadly confrontation with the Russian mafia, CIA infiltrators, motorcycle gangs, and corruption within his own police department."--NoveList.
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2008., William Heinemann Call No: MYS Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Charlie Resnick Volume: 11
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By Stumpf, Dougc2007., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Stu Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2013., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Wal Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.
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2023., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: NEW BLK Fic Whi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harlem Volume: 2.Summary Note: Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him--until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated--and deadly. 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney's endearingly violent partner in crime. It's getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook--to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole county is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A. and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carney's tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupted. Crook Manifesto is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whitehead's kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time.
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c2012., Adult, Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Smi Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Virgil Cain mysteries Volume: 2Summary Note: "For Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields more than he bargained for when, while pulling up anchor, he hooks on to a mysterious steel cylinder. As word of Virgil's strange catch spreads around the local marina, it draws the attention of a crooked city cop, who seizes both the cylinder and Virgil's boat. Soon, an old drug deal gone sour surfaces, and to get to the bottom of it - and to get his boat back - Virgil teams up with a captivating single mom, Dusty, who knows far too much about the cylinder and the pure cocaine it contains. The landscape is soon cluttered with the dealer who claims ownership of the cylinder, his murderous sidekick, and a wild card in the form of a crazy Russian cowboy. Virgil and Dusty find themselves trapped in the middle and desperate for a way out."--Author's website.
