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Mafia summit

J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the meeting that unmasked the mob
2013
The true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to America.

Deadly valentines

the story of Capone's henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, his blonde alibi
2012
The infamous 1920's St. Valentine's Day Massacre involved a fight between gangsters. In the complicated underworld of Al Capone's Chicago, Jack McGurn is really Vincent Gebardi, a coldly efficient killer. Louise May Rolfe is his wife. As Jack/Vincent was being hunted as the perpetrator of the killings on St. Valentine's Day, his life was examined in minute detail by the press, and the couple's excesses and extremes define the Prohibition era in America.

Wait until dark

jazz and the underworld, 1880-1940
1980
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Razorhurst

In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.

Because it is my blood

2013
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.

Ink & ashes

2015
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"--.

Organized crime

a reference handbook
1995
A reference handbook on organized crime, its history, current status, and key players on both sides of the law.

Firebug

2014
Ava, a contracted hit man who can start fires with her mind, hits the road with her friends, desperately trying to escape the Coterie, a magical mafia, while keeping the murder to a minimum after she is asked to kill a family friend by Venus, who killed Ava's mother.

Trust me, I'm lying

2014
Having learned to be a master con artist from her father, Julep Dupree pays expenses at her exclusive high school by fixing things for fellow students, but she will need their help when her father disappears.

Arcadia falls

Star-crossed lovers Rosa and Alessandro are attacked by an unknown adversary while searching for ways to thwart a prophecy that predicts the destruction of their families if they unite in marriage.

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