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Explores the life and career of Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski, discussing his childhood, family life, associates, and involvement in over 200 murders.

Describes the kidnapping of the infant son of American aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, discussing the search for the baby, the investigation of the child's death, and the arrest and murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the crime.

New Jersey prosecutor Paul Copeland is distracted from his high-profile case against some wealthy college students when his past intrudes with the discovery of the body of a middle-aged man who was one of four young campers presumed to have been murdered twenty years earlier--a crime that occurred while Copeland was neglecting his duties as a security guard to enjoy a tryst with his girlfriend.

Details the Supreme Court case that dealt with drug searches by public school employees and debated the Fourth Amendment rights of students.

While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley.

Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.

The author describes her experiences as an African American girl growing up in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and how she and her sisters formed a singing group to finance their education and went on to become successful despite the obstacles in their paths.

After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape, or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff's lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it is hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie's Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Plum is forced into working side by side with Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case. Solving the case is harder than she imagined and to make sure the rent is paid she takes on a second job, protecting her mentor Ranger from a deadly special forces adversary.

Lulu, having witnessed the murder of a culinary television star, decides to enter a cooking competition in order to try and uncover who the killer is, while Stephanie helps Ranger investigate a series of break-ins and things start to heat up between them, despite her relationship with officer Joe Morelli's objections.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum joins forces with Diesel, a fellow hunter and sometimes lover, to track down Wulf Grimoire, a wanderer and murderer with no remorse and the ability to hide in any conditions, and as the pair track the elusive criminal, they find themselves plagued by spooky occurrences and the legendary Jersey Devil.