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

Murder is the Pay-Off

Murder is the Pay-Off
Author: Leslie Ford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479448699

"One of the beat mysteries of the year." -- Providence Journal When an innocent young woman finds herself knee-deep in gambling -- and up to her beautiful neck in debts -- there's apt to be trouble.... And trouble is what Janey Blake had plenty of. She had written a pile of bad checks. And she was fighting to keep her husband from the arms of another woman.... But other people had trouble too. Doc Wemitz, for example. He was afraid of something. And apparently he had reason — for one night someone bashed in his skull.... That was the same night that Janey hit her first jackpot in months — and found a gilded coin that a desperate killer would stop at nothing to retrieve.

Killer

Killer
Author: Joey the Hit Man
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1504046072

New York Times Bestseller: This groundbreaking tell-all by a mob hit man is “chilling and compelling—a must-read” (Former FBI agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco). The Bronx-born son of a Jewish bootlegger, “Joey the Hit Man” was introduced to crime when he was just eleven years old. For the next thirty years he was a numbers king, scalper, loan shark, enforcer, and drug smuggler. He hijacked trucks, fenced stolen goods, and trafficked in pornography. But Joey really made his name as a Mafia assassin, racking up thirty-eight cold-blooded hits—thirty-five for cash, three for revenge. In Killer, Joey tells the true story of life in organized crime. He exposes the reality of gang wars, discusses how he raised a family while living on the wrong side of the law, and documents the day-to-day business of crime—from making and breaking alliances to staying one step ahead of the cops. He reveals how he faced a grand jury seven times with no convictions (“never lie to your lawyer”) and kept a seven-figure fortune out of reach of the IRS. He lays out in graphic detail the difference between getting paid to kill and doing it for personal reasons. “People think because they saw [The Godfather] they know everything there is to know about organized crime,” Joey contends. In this no-holds-barred account, he reveals the brutal truth behind the Hollywood fantasy. Forty-five years after this true crime classic shocked readers all over the world and set the standard for bestselling Mafia biographies including Joseph Bonnano’s A Man of Honor and Philip Carlo’s Ice Man, the new edition of Killer includes an afterword by coauthor David Fisher that unmasks Joey’s real identity—and the circumstances behind his death that add another layer of mystery to his complicated, colorful, and fascinating life.

Murder Takes a Vacation

Murder Takes a Vacation
Author: Melvin Krissoff
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2000-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595131530

Early the following morning the shrill sound of my phone ringing startled me awake. Detective Wilson was on the line. I told him he scared the hell out of me and that it was to damn early to get out of the sack. He laughed at me. He stated, "We believe we found Teri's friend and co-worker. Mr. William Corstairs. He is an accountant where Teri Hargrove was employed. He was brought to the precinct this morning for questioning. He is reluctant to speak in fear of losing his job." Wilson said to hurry down to the police station as I was working him on the case. I zoomed into my clothing, got into my truck and rushed to the police station in town. After some time William broke down, sobbing, and told us he had seen Teri several times, but not on the night she was murdered. He could never harm her.

Payoff

Payoff
Author: Douglas Corleone
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466836016

When movie studio mogul Edgar Trenton's teenage daughter, Olivia, is kidnapped during a violent home invasion in Calabasas, California, former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk is called upon to ensure a smooth ransom exchange. But once it becomes clear that the kidnappers never intended to return Olivia to her parents, Simon must follow a lethal trail that will lead him from the powdery white sand beaches of the Cayman Islands through the wild jungles of Costa Rica, and into some of the darkest and deadliest cities of South America. Payoff is another satisfying thrill ride from Douglas Corleone, the author of GOOD AS GONE, and as Booklist said in a starred review, "Once the story kicks into high gear, which is pretty much on the top of page two, it doesn't let up, period."

Pay Off

Pay Off
Author: Stephen Leather
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2009-07-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1844568660

Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA? Jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a cold-blooded act of murder. His adversary is a dangerous gangland boss whose connections stretch from the Highlands to London and beyond. More than a match for a newcomer, especially when that newcomer's plans contain a fatal flaw which will be discovered only when it is much too late . . . ********* PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping' Irish Independent 'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express

Killer Looks

Killer Looks
Author: Tawna Fenske
Publisher: Tawna Fenske
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2022-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

They’re hitmen. Trained assassins. If they nail this job, there’s a payoff. Possibly cookies. But first, the bad stuff. Dante’s done with hitman life, but there’s one last job to do. A favor to the Duke of Dovlano targeting brutal gun runners. Dante calls on comrades, Matteo—brilliant, brooding, lethal—and charming Sebastian “The Dentist” LaDouceur. Each has skills he’s honed to take out threats at all costs. They’ve also got soft spots for family, lost loves, baby farm animals, and iambic pentameter. But when the job falls apart, their carefully laid plans go up in smoke. Can three killers with a conscience stick together, or is it every man for himself?

Pistols and Politics

Pistols and Politics
Author: Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807182737

In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana’s Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition deftly brings the analysis forward to account for the continuation of violence and mayhem in the region in the early twentieth century. Numerous pockets of small communities formed in the nineteenth-century South with cultures and values independent from those of the dominant planter class. As Hyde shows, one such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions com-bined to create an enclave of white yeomen, and where in the years after the Civil War, levels of conflict escalated to a state of chronic anar-chy. His careful study of a society that degenerated into utter chaos illuminates the factors that allowed these conditions to arise and triumph. Additional material reveals the ongoing impact of a culture riddled with suspicion and bitterness well into the Jim Crow era.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1422
Release: 1971
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

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).