Winslow, Don
Summary: 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. Danny Ryan yearns for a more "legit" life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WINSLOWScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SCOTTOLINEScottoline, Lisa
Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LARGE PRINT FICTION SCOTTOLINELupica, Mike
Summary: "Sunny Randall is 'on' again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving and never seemed to be able to let go, despite her discomfort with his Mafia connections. When Richie is shot and nearly killed, Sunny is dragged into the thick of his family's business as she searches for answers and tries to stave off a mob war. But as the bullets start flying in Boston's mean streets, Sunny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in CD, Call number: AUDIO FICTION PARKER 7Coleman, Reed Farrel
Summary: "The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY COLEMANGrisham, John
Summary: For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LARGE PRINT FICTION GRISHAMColeman, Reed Farrel
Summary: "All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY COLEMANPatterson, James
Summary: "Cain Lemaire is an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. With help from his sister who's working in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. Cain ends up tangling with the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and unraveling a sex slavery ring"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PATTERSONVachss, Andrew H.
Summary: The time, 1959-and America. The place-a small, entirely corrupt Midwestern burg named Locke City, currently owned top to bottom by homegrown Royal Beaumont. Crippled by a childhood disease, Royal rules from a wheelchair-throne; few, though, have ever doubted that his power is absolute. Or not until now, when rival mobs-one Irish, one Italian-suddenly sense windows of opportunity. They lurk at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION VACHSSBurke, James Lee
Summary: "On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY BURKEWinslow, Don
Summary: Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WINSLOW 3Roberts, Nora.
Summary: "Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROBERTSPerry, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY PERRYCannell, Stephen J.
Summary: TV producer Ryan Bolt is hired to do a documentary on a Rhode Island governor, a fast-rising candidate in a U.S. presidential election. He discovers the man is financed by the Mafia which is buying up TV time everywhere as part of a plot to have its man in the White House, a discovery that puts his life in danger. A first novel by a TV scriptwriter who wrote The Commish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow and Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CANNEGrisham, John.
Summary: Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRISHAMLehane, Dennis.
Summary: In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEHANELupica, Mike
Summary: "Robert B. Parker's beloved PI Sunny Randall returns on a case that blurs the line between friend and foe...and if Sunny can't tell the difference, the consequences may be deadly. When Sunny's long-time gangster associate Tony Marcus comes to her for help, Sunny is surprised - after all, she double crossed him on a recent deal, and their relationship is on shakier ground than ever. But the way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY LUPICALupica, Mike
Summary: "Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival. Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving and never seemed to be able to let go, despite her discomfort with his Mafia connections. When Richie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY LUPICALupica, Mike
Summary: "Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival. Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving and never seemed to be able to let go, despite her discomfort with his Mafia connections. When Richie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LARGE PRINT MYSTERY LUPICASmith, Martin Cruz
Summary: When investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and buried, investigator Arkady Renko connects the two cases, which leads him to a Cold War secret city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SMITHFabiano, Laurie.
Summary: Giovanna Costa, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life for herself at the turn of the twentieth century in New York City's Little Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Encore 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FABIANOGoldberg, Tod.
Summary: "Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GOLDBERGCristofano, David.
Summary: "A woman who has lost her identity to the Witness Protection Program flirts with trusting her life to the Mafioso hired to kill her"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CRISTOFANOGreen, Tim
Summary: When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2008