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1) Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the F.B.I. Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos
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Leaving Vegas a fascinating glimpse into the world of Kansas City mobsters in the 1970sYou don't have to be a local history buff to be interested in the chronicles of Kansas City's infamous mob family. Those of us who were around here in the mid-1970s recall the headlines. Gary Jenkins, a former police detective (now attorney and author) takes us back to the players and key events of those days in Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the FBI Wiretaps...
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The author has written a how to book on the art of conduct a surveillance on criminals. Gary Jenkins is a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective and Gary uses real life situations to entertain and educate the reader in the art of surveillance. He tells about sitting in roach infested apartments for days and days, following a serial killer on foot though the back alleys of Kansas City and following professional criminals as they move...
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The Day Mia Jensen Died, She Finally Got To Live. We've all played the "what if" game. For forty-year-old Mia Jensen, "what if" is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to know. But that knowledge will cost her dearly. Only through death can she fully realize the value of her life.
After a terrible day, trying to figure out how she's come to this point-alone, on the cusp...
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1373A BRUTAL TRADE - A Diana Rivers Mystery Thriller.Even on a small island the darkest secrets can't stay buried forever…It began like any normal day in Cyprus…except it wasn't…the body of a woman brutally murdered and discovered in a shallow grave changes all that.It is only days later when amateur sleuth, Diana Rivers and old flame, Chief Superintendent Adam Lovell discover a second female victim…only this time the discovery is even more...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; Wife, Mother, Murderess: Two children lay gravely wounded, another is D.O.A. Could their young mother really be the shooter?A Japanese Cannibal in Paris: A brilliant Japanese student develops a taste for Western women while studying in France. A Passion for Evil: When Snuff movie aficionado, John Maden, decides to indulge his darkest fantasy, no one is safe – not even his 12-year-old niece. Teenage...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; In Plain Sight: A young woman is brutally murdered in front of 38 witnesses. So why didn't anyone call the police?Bad Chemistry: John Balaban had a problem with women, one that he resolved at the end of a sharp blade. Fox on the Run: A young mother is found shot to death and the clues point to the unlikeliest of suspects – a gorgeous ex-cop and playboy bunny. Weeds: The Major enjoyed an orderly existence,...
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18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases From Around The World, including;The Girl in the Basement: A 16-year-old girl is kept in a basement and systematically tortured to death by a gang of neighborhood children.Secret Sauce: Omaima Nelson had a unique way of getting rid of her husband's corpse. She cooked and ate it.Murder in the Clouds: United Airlines flight 629 explodes soon after take-off. But did someone deliberately plant a bomb on board? And if...
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Fresh from the crypt with another dose of the deadly. While slashers and creeps haunt city alleyways and town streets, Fear Box investigates the deathly side of crime and true stories. The Dossier of Death includes Fear Box's investigations into the death of rumored half-alien secret agent Jeffrey Alan Lash, as well as Granny the Ripper, Michelle the Suicide Temptress, the Satanic Panic, and much more.If you're feeling groggy, I implore you to stay...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; Dark Water: The frantic young woman claimed that her young sons had been abducted by a gunman. The truth was rather more sinister.The Brighton Trunk Murders: Two female corpses are found crammed into luggage trunks. But are the murders related? And if so, how? Death in the Badlands: When an America student goes missing south of the border, suspicion falls on a drug dealer with links to human sacrifice...
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Lies and love. This is how a war starts.A life for a life. That's the mafia way. Damian Rossi owes his life to a man who is ready to collect. That payment comes in the form of an arranged marriage to the daughter of another leading family in the Chicago Outfit. He's ready to follow through, even if that means making sure Lily knows she's his.Lily DeLuca isn't being given a choice. Forced home to marry a man she doesn't know and back into a life she'd...
13) Revenge
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Detective Gates won't let up, but that doesn't sway London. She's more in love with her bad guy than she's ever been. And Victor proves his love for her over and over. But things aren't as simple. Victor and London want to live their lives in peace, but there are still a few people who won't let them just yet.Once more Victor has to be the monster who will get rid of the bad guys. And once more he proves just how great of a man he really is even if...
14) Devil's Lake
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After two years of brutal captivity, Portia Lamont has escaped and returned to her family's Vermont horse farm-only to find her parents gone to New York to try an experimental treatment for her mother's cancer, and her childhood friend Boone Hawke running the farm.Like the rest of her family, Boone has never given up hope that Portia would return. But when she turns up battered, skinny as a twelve-year-old boy, afraid of everything and unable to talk...
15) The Assassin
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Tall, sexy, rich and everything in between. Jacob is the sexiest man Ruby-Rae has ever set eyes on. There's just one problem, she's married and will not break her vows for this man. But Jacob is not just any man, he's an assassin, a man who gets what he wants and that includes Ruby-Rae. The mores Ruby-Rae resists, the more he persists. The thing he doesn't know is that he might be doing her a great big favour.Ruby-Rae has secrets of her own. Perhaps...
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South Glenn Maximum Security prison wasn't for the faint at heart. The inmates weren't there because they stole some cookies from the cookie jar.They were serial murderers.Rapists.Pedophiles.The worst of the worst.It was at South Glenn that 'Sweet Treats' bakery owner, Scarlett Everett met two men who would change her life. Damon Salt was a man serving life without parole that she was paired with for a volunteer program called Friends for Lifers.Prison...
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'Una vez psiquiatra…' lo tiene todo: personajes intrigantes, estilo novela negra, peligro, crimen, asesinos en serie, religión, secretos de familia, revelaciones psicológicas, enfermedades mentales, trauma, juicios contestados, investigaciones policiales, corrupción, y misterio. Si os gustan: 'Miénteme', 'Mentes Criminales' y 'El silencio de los corderos' y no os asusta adentraros en los abismos oscuros de la mente, atreveos a seguid leyendo.'Una...
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Ariella has murdered her husband in the most heinous way possible. Brian Lawrence was a God fearing man and people have nothing but good things to say about him. So why on earth did Ariella kill him? And why in such a brutal way?It's Lillian's job to figure out if Ariella is criminally insane or just a psychopath. But how can she be the latter if she's never done this before? As the story unfolds, questions are answered. And soon things come to light.Excerpt'He'd...
19) Needing You
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Dealing with the trauma of her kidnapping and vicious treatment at the hands of her ex-boyfriend Tony, Charlotte McElroy struggles to find her way back to normality. Will the bond that Charlie and Wyatt Grayson, the sexy movie star, made be enough to handle the repercussions of her abuse? With friends and family by their side for support it should've been enough. Wyatt was Charlie's beacon guiding her, together they survived the three days of hell...
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Framed for cattle rustling and horse theft by the corrupt banker who foreclosed on their employer's ranch, Buck and Dobie find themselves out of work, out of cash, and out of luck. So, they decided to try and live up to their reputation as wanted men-an idea easier said than done. Buck Hawkins and Dobie Garrett are a pair of cowboys in the Texas Panhandle. They're unlikely outlaws-until their ranch is stolen and the two cowhands framed for rustling...
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