Max Allan Collins
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA'S GREAT CRIME EPIC. A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Early one quiet Monday morning, in an empty executive office, assistant Janice Denard begins to prepare for another ordinary day - but instead discovers evidence of horrific crimes, shocking photographs left abandoned in a printer. Now, with the help of the LVPD's computer forensics experts, the CSI team must track through hardware and software, deception and deceit to find the perpetrators. But while Willows and Stokes investigate the once well-hidden...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c 2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death--alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's greedy stepfather actually played a hand in Rita Bennett's untimely death.
Author
Series
Road to Perdition graphic novels volume 1
Description
Michael Sullivan is a professional hit man bound to the criminal underworld of 1930s who learns a viiolent lesson one rainy night when his wife and youngest son are killed. Sullivan and his last surviving child face off aginist the most notorious crime syndicate in history--on a journey of revenge and self-discovery.
6) Do no harm
Author
Series
Nathan Heller novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In Do No Harm, Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case-a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison. Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient narrative...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"There has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era--until now. Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next six novels, Spillane quickly amassed a readership in the tens of millions, becoming the bestselling novelist in the history of American publishing. Surrounded by controversy for the overt violence and suggestive sexual content of his iconic Mike Hammer...
11) Too many bullets
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
It began with John F. Kennedy in 1963. Then Malcolm X in 1965. Martin Luther King in April 1968. And then, in June of the same year, President Kennedy's brother Robert fell before an assassin's bullets at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. But how many shooters were there, really? And who sent them?
12) CSI: Sin City
Author
Pub. Date
C 2003
Description
Lynn Pierce seemed to be a devout Christian, devoted wife and mother - but she left behind a tape recording of her husband threatening to cut her into little pieces.
17) Windtalkers
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In the brutal fires of war, two men come togeyther from different worlds.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c 2000-2005
Description
The machinations of a new supervisor may have altered Gil Grissom's team of skillful CSIs, as Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Warrick Brown are reassigned from the graveyard shift to the swing shift. That doesn't mean however that their paths will never cross.
Author
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
"When a retired colleague dies of an apparent suicide, ex-Secret Service agent Joe Reeder knows there must be far more to the story. Why did the man leave a desperate message for Reeder moments before dying? And what could possibly make such a seasoned veteran fear for his life? FBI Special Agent Patti Rogers has a mystery of her own to solve: she's leading a task force investigating a brutal series of similar but seemingly unconnected murders across...