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True to the Game II by Teri Woods
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena... -
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Bankroll Squad by David Weaver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Bankroll Squad rules the under world with an iron fist. The women in the squad are willing to ride or die for their principles and everything that they stand for... -
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Trainspotting: The Screenplay by John Hodge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet in the underbelly of Edinburgh, Trainspotting is a story inhabited by a galaxy of immensely colorful characters -- liars, thieves, junkies -- people whose habits, emotions, and stories will leave an indelible imprint on the reader's mind... -
![Secrets of a Side Bitch by Jessica N. Watkins]()
Secrets of a Side Bitch by Jessica N. Watkins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMeet Omari a gorgeous, hard working, twenty-eight year old man from the Southside of Chicago. No matter how hard he works at his job at UPS, it is never enough to take care of himself and his long-term girlfriend. After continuous pressure from his older cousin, Ching, Omari finally traded in busting his ass for working under Ching hustling three major blocks on the Westside... -
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![Soul and Diana 3 by Jade Jones]()
Soul and Diana 3 by Jade Jones
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSoul and Diana are back for the biggest fight of their lives! Skeletons are revealed and secrets are exposed. The wounds they cause seem incapable of healing, but will these two persevere in spite of it all? After all, finding out your cheating husband had a baby on the side is not that easy to deal with... -
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![Boy on a Shelf by J.T. Daniels]()
Boy on a Shelf by J.T. Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by a true story, J T Daniels exposes the horrific life of Peter. His family lived a normal life – work, school, church – while he was chained in a room, starving. Peter was their dirty, little secret. They would go to any lengths to keep him hidden from others... -
![White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief by Donald Goines]()
White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief by Donald Goines
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines knows life on the streets is a one-way ticket to life behind bars, where suffering is the one and only daily bread.Barely out of his twenties, Chester Hines knows the score. He's just another bug crawling through the streets of Detroit, waiting to be squashed under the heel of a system meant to keep a brother down... -
![The Jump by Martina Cole]()
The Jump by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDonna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he's been set up and persuades Donna to help him escape.Implementing 'the jump' takes Donna into a twilight world she never believed existed - a world of brutal sex and casual violence... -
![A Secret Baby by the Mafia by Veda Rose]()
A Secret Baby by the Mafia by Veda Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI just got kidnapped by my family’s biggest enemy…and the father of my secret baby.I grew up to hate him, then fell in love with him.When word got out of our forbidden romance, my family forced me to leave the city.Not knowing that my curves were hiding the fact that I was pregnant with his baby…But now I’m back, only to find out that our families are at war again... -
![Dies irae by César Pérez Gellida]()
Dies irae by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDespués de Memento mori... ha llegado el día de la ira.La acción de este thriller implacable arranca en la peculiar ciudad italiana de Trieste, frontera entre dos mundos. Augusto Ledesma elige el que fuera hogar de James Joyce como primer escenario para continuar su siniestra obra, que alimenta del aliento de sus víctimas y de la humillación de sus perseguidores... -
![People Like Us by Dominick Dunne]()
People Like Us by Dominick Dunne
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in--even where it is most unwelcome. After moving from Cincinnati, Elias and Ruby Renthal strike it even richer in New York, turning their millions into billions. It would be impolite for high society to refuse them now. Not to mention disadvantageous... -
![Bangkok Burn by Simon Royle]()
Bangkok Burn by Simon Royle
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOrphaned as a child and raised as the only son of a Thai mafia godfather, Chance plans to quit the family business for the woman he loves.Chance’s father is the godfather of Pak Nam and owner of the largest crocodile farm on earth. He didn’t get to where he is without knowing a thing or two about people, including how long it takes for a crocodile to digest one... -
![Sleep then my Princess by O.N. Stefan]()
Sleep then my Princess by O.N. Stefan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSleep then My Princess is an emotional thriller set in Arizona. While mourning the death of her husband, Senior Tissue Engineer, Stephani Robbins, is plagued by recurring visions of a child being locked up in a chicken coop. Meanwhile, someone is sending her creepy love poems, roses, and photos that have been taken without Stephani's knowledge... -
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![Mutatis mutandis by César Pérez Gellida]()
Mutatis mutandis by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings«El problema no es el presente, es la pesarosa herencia del pasado y la paupérrima proyección del futuro»Con esta sentencia contenida en el primer spin off de la trilogía Versos, canciones y trocitos de carne, Armando Lopategui «Carapocha» ofrece su visión de un porvenir que vislumbra ya sombrío... -
![Zabójca mimo woli by Alexandra Marinina, Alexandra Marinina]()
Zabójca mimo woli by Alexandra Marinina, Alexandra Marinina
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPrzełożeni major Kamieńskiej doceniają jej profesjonalizm i tzw. szósty zmysł. Nic zatem dziwnego, że postawili przed nią wyjątkowo trudne zadanie ma zapobiec planowanemu morderstwu. I co ciekawe, nie chodzi tu wcale o uratowanie życia przyszłej ofierze! W śledztwie pomaga Anastazji zaprzyjaźniony mafioso. Korzystając ze wsparcia, nie przypuszcza, że pozostanie jego dłużniczką do końca życia... -
![Sutton by J.R. Moehringer]()
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWillie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and came of age at a time when banks were out of control. If they weren't failing outright, causing countless Americans to lose their jobs and homes, they were being propped up with emergency bailouts... -
![Pretty In Black by Rae Hachton]()
Pretty In Black by Rae Hachton
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the day of her death, a seventeen year old cheerleader meets a vampire in the cemetery who saves her life.Seventeen year old Eleanor Piper was supposed to die that day. She was sure of it. Only . . . she didn't. Somehow, she awakens in the cemetery at midnight where she awkwardly meets an unusual stranger . . . whom she ends up foolishly kissing a few bantering minutes later... -
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Freedomland by Richard Price
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date.A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night... -
![The Institute by Jakub Żulczyk]()
The Institute by Jakub Żulczyk
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Institute is a compelling suspenseful thriller and an uncomfortable and troubling study of the most primal of instincts: fear.The residents of an apartment block, in the Central Krakow, are trapped in their own building. All windows and doors are sealed, phone lines are down and the Internet is off. Seven people, cut off from the world... -
![Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope by Patty Wetterling, Joy Baker]()
Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope by Patty Wetterling, Joy Baker
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Jacob—and its astonishing conclusion.On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 2, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy’s remains... -
![My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn]()
My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA powerful, heartfelt and moving account of his son's murder and his fight for justice by Ralph BulgerJames Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when, on 12 February 1993, he wandered away from his mum Denise in a shopping mall in Bootle. Grainy images from a security camera showed him trustingly holding the hand of ten-year-old Jon Venables as they walked away... -
![Lockdown by Drauzio Varella]()
Lockdown by Drauzio Varella
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne doctor's account of 10 years spent treating inmates in the Casa de Detenção, Brazil's largest and harshest prison.The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of São Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the "Old House," it was also highly unusual in the way it was governed... -
![Into the Forest and all the Way Through by Cynthia Pelayo]()
Into the Forest and all the Way Through by Cynthia Pelayo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry CollectionInto the Forest and all the Way Through is a collection of true crime poetry that explores the cases of over one hundred missing and murdered women in the United States... -
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![Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy]()
Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsO assassinato do casal Richthofen e de Isabella Nardoni foram reunidos em um só livro e trazem novos detalhes observados por quem estava nos bastidores... -
![All God's Children by Fox Butterfield]()
All God's Children by Fox Butterfield
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea comes the poignant story of how the tradition of white Southern violence and racism has long affected and still haunts one black family. Butterfield follows the Bosket family of Edgefield County, South Carolina, from the days of slavery to the present. Photos... -
![Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace by Michael Morton]()
Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace by Michael Morton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justice—and a second chance at life.On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time... -
![Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial. by Ron Peterson Jr.]()
Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial. by Ron Peterson Jr.
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUnder The Trestle is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk... -
![Book of Poisons: A Guide for Writers by Serita Stevens, Anne Louise Bannon]()
Book of Poisons: A Guide for Writers by Serita Stevens, Anne Louise Bannon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover Deadly Doses to Kill Off CharactersThe readers of your crime and mystery stories should be trying to figure out "whodunit"not wondering why your facts don't make sense. If you want to kill off characters with something poisonous, you need to know how a villain would gain access to such a poison, how it would be administered, and what the effects on the victim would be... -
![Daredevil, Vol. 3: Through Hell by Chip Zdarsky]()
Daredevil, Vol. 3: Through Hell by Chip Zdarsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe ground of Hell's Kitchen has shifted and Matthew Murdock has emerged a changed man..
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