Killer's Payoff

Killer's Payoff
Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781477805718

The detectives of the 87th Precinct pursue a desperate killer when handsome and wealthy Sy Kramer, a notorious blackmailer, is found with a bullet in his head

Working the Edge

Working the Edge
Author: Melvin R. Gudknecht
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1543444814

From 1978 to 1998, the United States Justice Department took on the mafia and corrupt unions using all available tools and even enhanced some old lawsa new agency and new laws. It was open season on organized crime and labor racketeers. A letter to the president of the United States effectively launched the Office of Labor Racketeering and Organized Crime with a bag of tools, which included the RICO statute, the Inspector General Act, organized crime bill, Presidential Commission on Organized Crime . . . and a hundred agents. After James Rydal Hoffa, president of Teamsters International, disappeared in 1975, there were no definitive answers as to what happened for years. Still today, there are unanswered questions to the mystery, like, where is the body? I was put into an unrelenting position to find out. Everybody has a story. This is my storya true story.

Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime

Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime
Author: Eric W. Hickey
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2003-07-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780761924371

The Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime is edited by a internationally recognized expert on serial killers, covering both murder and violent crime in their variant forms. Included will be biographies, chronologies, special interest inset boxes, up to 100 photos, comprehensive article bibliographies, and appendices for things like famous unsolved cases, celebrity murders, assasinations, original source documents, and online sources for information.

The Boys from Grover Avenue

The Boys from Grover Avenue
Author: George N. Dove
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780879723224

Critically examines the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels and stories written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter).

Girl in Snow

Girl in Snow
Author: Danya Kukafka
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501144391

“A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller…and an incredibly accomplished debut” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water), about a beloved high schooler found murdered in her sleepy Colorado suburb and the secret lives of three people connected to her. How can you love someone who’s done something horribly, horribly wrong? When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her community is untouched—not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder. In the aftermath of the tragedy, these three indelible characters—Cameron, Jade, and Russ—must each confront their darkest secrets in an effort to find solace, the truth, or both. In crystalline prose, Danya Kukafka offers a brilliant exploration of identity and of the razor-sharp line between love and obsession, between watching and seeing, between truth and memory. “A sensational debut—great characters, mysteries within mysteries, and page-turning pace. Highly recommended” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels). Hailed as “Gillian Flynn of 2017” (Yahoo! Style), compulsively readable and powerfully moving, Girl in Snow is “engagingly told… its endearing characters’ struggles linger in memory after this affecting work is done” (The Wall Street Journal).