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One for the Money

Janet Evanovich · 320 pages

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash--fast--but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family. Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bo

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Mr Majestyk

Elmore Leonard · 198 pages

Vincent Majestyk's refusal to be strong-armed by a powerful hood will leave him ruined, in shackles, and without a friend in the world -- except for one tough and beautiful woman. Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands -- and especially when th

Working-Class ProtagonistCrimeOrganized CrimeFast-Paced
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White Lines

Tracy Brown · 512 pages

Fleeing her home to escape the abuse of her mother's boyfriend, Jada seeks refuge with Born, the neighborhood kingpin, but her new life is threatened by crack addiction, prostitution, a struggle to rebuild her life, and a stormy romance with a street hustler.

Organized CrimeWorking-Class ProtagonistCrimeFemale Lead
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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

Charlie Huston · 319 pages

With a style that is razor sharp, an eye that never shies from the gritty details, and a taste for stories that simultaneously shock, disturb, and entertain, Charlie Huston is one of a kind. And The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is the type of story--swift, twisted, hilarious, somehow hopeful--that only he could dream up.The fact is, whether it's a dog hit by a train or an old lady who

CrimeWorking-Class ProtagonistOrganized CrimeFast-Paced
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The Dopeman's Wife

JaQuavis Coleman · 278 pages

Nautica was raised by the streets and forced to grow up quick. The allure of the fast life pulled her into a world of scandal, schemes, and hustling. When Nautica comes upon a big scam and her biggest payday ever, she decides to move the the East Coast in search of a new beginning. What she thought was to be a new start turns out to be a nightmare.

CrimeOrganized CrimeFast-PacedFemale Lead
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Let That Be the Reason

Vickie M. Stringer · 288 pages

A true to life story of a female hustler, who gets caught up in the street game. She take you through it all with her mind on one thing and one thing on her mind "money."

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K'wan

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True to the Game III

Teri Woods · 272 pages

The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly. Starting off where the second installment's dramatic cliffhanger left us, True III will finally reveal Gena's mysterious stalker and savior, as well as introduce a new killer so vicious, so cunning, so ruthless, he'll have you looking over you

CrimeOrganized CrimeFast-PacedSubstance Abuse
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Bitch

Deja King · 196 pages

CrimeOrganized CrimeFast-PacedFemale Lead
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Hell to Pay

George P. Pelecanos · 368 pages

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute. The two ex-cops think they know D.C.'s dangers, but nothing in their experience has prepared them for Worldwide Wilson, the pimp whose territory they're intruding upo

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The Elephant Tree

R.D. Ronald · 258 pages

The Elephant Tree is the 2010 debut novel by British crime and transgressive fiction author R.D. Ronald. Set in the fictional city of Garden Heights, the novel follows Scott, a 24-year-old working for his brother while running a small-scale drug dealing operation; Angela, 23, whose father, a career criminal, supplies Scott with cannabis; and Mark Fallon, a detective investigating a spate of attack

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If Tomorrow Comes

Sidney Sheldon · 416 pages

***She's Tracy Whitney. Sidney Sheldon's most exciting heroine ever.*** Lovely, idealistic, she's soon to enter into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--***and to a passion, dangerous and elusive, that promises to fulfill all her secret dreams ...*** ***The international bestseller from the master of suspense. A mafia conspiracy and one woman against t

Organized CrimeCrimeFast-PacedFemale Lead
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Wifey

Kiki Swinson · 252 pages

CrimeOrganized CrimeFast-PacedSubstance Abuse
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Savages

Don Winslow

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Angel Baby

Richard Lange · 288 pages

To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he ru

Organized CrimeCrimeFast-PacedSubstance Abuse
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Out

Natsuo Kirino · 394 pages

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

CrimeWorking-Class ProtagonistOrganized CrimeFemale Lead
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Beautiful, Naked & Dead

Josh Stallings · 277 pages

Beautiful, Naked and Dead is a hard-boiled crime novel. Moses McGuire a suicidal strip club bouncer is out to avenge the death of one of his girls. From his East L.A. home, through the legal brothels of Nevada and finally to a battle with the mob in the mountains above Palo Alto, it is a sex soaked, rage driven, road trip from hell.

CrimeOrganized CrimeFast-PacedSubstance Abuse
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King of Ashes

S.A. Cosby · 352 pages

When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortali

Organized CrimeWorking-Class ProtagonistCrimeSubstance Abuse
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The Know

Martina Cole · 480 pages

CrimeOrganized CrimeWorking-Class ProtagonistFemale Lead
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Where All Light Tends to Go

David Joy · 289 pages

"Set in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves"--

Working-Class ProtagonistCrimeOrganized CrimeSubstance Abuse
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Clockers

Richard Price · 624 pages

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Mystic River

Dennis Lehane · 487 pages

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to

Working-Class ProtagonistCrimeOrganized CrimeViolent
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The Cuckoo's Calling

J.K. Rowling · 480 pages

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the

Working-Class ProtagonistCrimeFast-PacedSubstance Abuse
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Death Blow

Isabella Maldonado · 311 pages

Organized CrimeCrimeFast-PacedFemale Lead

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