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Lore

Alexandra Bracken · 480 pages

New York CityMythology RetellingTeen ProtagonistFast-Paced
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The Bone Collector

Jeffery Deaver · 432 pages

Number one bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with his most famous characters Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs in beautifully reissued editions.

New York CityCrimeViolentDark
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The Wanderers

Richard Price · 256 pages

New York CityCrimeTeen ProtagonistViolent
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The Shotgun Rule

Charlie Huston · 254 pages

CrimeTeen ProtagonistViolentFast-Paced
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Gutter

K'wan · 406 pages

Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It?s been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-loc?s best friend, finds himself on a path to self destruction, vowing to eradicate the entire Blood faction in New York City in the name of his fallen comrade. Sharell urges him to abandon the suicide mission, but his oath won?t allo

New York CityCrimeViolentFast-Paced
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High Heat

Lee Child · 48 pages

New York CityCrimeTeen ProtagonistFast-Paced
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Blind Man with a Pistol

Chester Himes · 240 pages

"New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace, their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence, Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings

New York CityCrimeViolentFast-Paced
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Dead I Well May Be

Adrian McKinty · 320 pages

New York CityCrimeViolentFast-Paced
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The Big Kill

Mickey Spillane · 168 pages

A reformed ex-con is the victim of a vicious killer. Mike Hammer goes gunning for justice, but a beautiful woman keeps getting in his way.

CrimeNew York CityFast-PacedViolent
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You

Caroline Kepnes · 424 pages

"Love hurts... When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he's instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: She's gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and as sexy as his wildest dreams. Beck doesn't know it yet, but she's perfect for him, and soon she can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. But there's more to Joe

New York CityCrimeViolentFast-Paced
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The Blue Blazes

Chuck Wendig · 400 pages

Meet Mookie Pearl. Criminal underworld? He runs in it. Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it. Nothing stops Mookie when he’s on the job. But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something’s gotta give...

New York CityCrimeFast-PacedViolent
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Naked in Death

J.D. Robb · 313 pages

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion. Crime and punishment is her business. Murder her speciality. Named by the social worker who found her when she was a mere child roaming that city's streets, Eve is a New York police detective who lives for h

New York CityCrimeViolentFast-Paced
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The Dead All Have the Same Skin

Boris Vian, Vernon Sullivan · 200 pages

CrimeNew York CityViolentDark
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Dance of Death

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 580 pages

Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal.An undying hatred between them.Now, a perfect crime.And the ultimate challenged: Stop me if you can.

New York CityCrimeFast-PacedDark
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The Necromancer

Michael Scott

Mythology RetellingTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedDark
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Dutch

Teri Woods · 230 pages

CrimeFast-PacedViolentDark
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Billy Bathgate

E.L. Doctorow · 484 pages

New York CityCrimeTeen ProtagonistViolent
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The Anniversary Man

R.J. Ellory · 400 pages

New York CityCrimeViolentDark
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Everybody Dies

Lawrence Block · 338 pages

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. Then all hell breaks loose. "A taut noir story ... one of Lawrence Block's best" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.Then all hell breaks loose.Scudder qui

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The Family Corleone

Edward Falco, Mario Puzo · 436 pages

New York, 1933. The crime families have prospered in the Depression, but with the coming end of Prohibition a battle is looming... one which will determine which organizations will rise, and which will face a violent end. Vito Corleone pushes his oldest child, teenaged Sonny, to be a businessman. But Sonny-- impatient and reckless-- wants to become a part of the real family business.

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Silent Prey

John Sandford · 320 pages

New York CityCrimeViolentFast-Paced
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The Godfather

Mario Puzo · 447 pages

The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is

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Flood

Andrew Vachss · 341 pages

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City on Fire

Don Winslow · 384 pages

Mythology RetellingCrimeViolentDark

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