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244) South Central noir
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Within these pages you'll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow--until something untoward happens. Maybe it's someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control. Maybe they're planning the grift, the grab . . . whatever it is to finally put them over. Other times the steps they take are to get themselves or people they care about out from under. You'll find the offerings in these pages...
246) Traitors to all
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A lawyer who has spent time in prison with Duca is found drowned in one of the Milanese canals. Duca is contacted by a friend of the dead lawyer to perform surgery on a woman who after the operation confesses that although she is due to marry a wealthy butcher, is really in love with another man, the friend of the lawyer. Shortly afterwards, she is killed together with her lover. Duca discovers that the two events are linked and starts to unravel...
Author
Series
Shortcut man novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
253) The wrong quarry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them--and then removing that problem as well. So far he's rid the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Ch'ŏtp'an.
Language
Korean
Description
When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.
258) The company man
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Company Man takes listeners on a wild ride to 1919 Washington state, where a war is brewing between the McNaughton Corporation and its union workers. When the conflict's latest casualty prompts McNaughton security officer Cyril Hayes to investigate, he's soon caught up in worker claims that the corporation's machines have minds of their own.
259) Kansas City noir
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Kansas City noir, naked ambition meets broken dreams, and blues and the night go together like rye whiskey, vermouth, and bitters."--Back cover.
260) The body snatcher
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
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