Urban Crime Fiction

A large party was given to me and Tony for our release from prison. We were also celebrating our promotions to Capo. Our new business venture was to run drugs and counterfeit money in phony taxis. They were perfect replicas of cabs that traveled thru the city. We operated right under the cop's noses --- making the mob millions. Don Mancini was pleased until I had an accident. I actually had two --- one with the taxi and the other with my girlfriend, both were life changers. Don Carmine Mancini was a brilliant and he turned my negatives into positives.

For Kenyatta, the living urban legend, the war is far from over. With new recruits bolstering his army, he's ready to take down the drug pushers destroying his. This time the battle is moving out of the streets and heading west, where he faces off with his arch enemy in a brutal showdown in Vegas, high atop a glittering hotel. One bullet, one hit, one survivor—winner takes all.

Author, bookseller, spy-breaker, killer. Enter the world of Russell Stickles. Not since George Harvey Bone in Hangover Square has there ever been a singular protagonist as compelling. As sickly. As sick. From the creator of Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians comes a stunning novel that re-invents the tale of the empty man.

Wenn Zivilcourage zu Selbstjustiz wird - Andreas Eschbach: Todesengel: Erich Sassbeck wird an einem Bahnhof von Jugendlichen fast zu Tode geprügelt. Ein Unbekannter erschießt die Täter, und der ehemalige DDR-Grenzsoldat Sassbeck gerät unter Verdacht, in Selbstjustiz gehandelt zu haben. Der Journalist Ingo Praise erhebt den unbekannten Racheengel in einem Artikel zum Star - und löst damit eine Katastrophe aus, die es in sich hat.

When Detective Harry Shepherd stops a young teenager from throwing himself from the end of Blackpool pier, he has little idea that the world around him would change forever. As the boy scampers away, he vows to discover why the lad was so willing to die. However, Alex Hayden is no ordinary teenager, but one with an insight into the multiple murders that are occurring within the town. Sensing a loss within the soul of Detective Shepherd, he becomes embroiled in the search to stop the killer at the risk of exposing his own secret.

Body Baggers is a fictional story about a Black biker club located in Oakland, California, and a strained relationship between two brothers that is filled with love and hate, envy and abandonment, and resentment and competition. Friends and family get caught up in their tumultuous relationship and loyalties are continually tried and tested throughout their story.

Susana Hernández ens presenta "Mai més", una novel·la que ens situa en dos barris multiculturals de Barcelona, la Mina i el Besòs, i se centra en els entramats socials i els focus de delinqüència. Com la mateixa autora explica, "en aquesta segona novel·la apareix la lluita dels personatges, la realitat dels narcopisos i el rebrot de l’heroïna" i se serveix de les pàgines del llibre per retratar aquest somni europeu dels immigrants, que al final es converteix en un malson.

After blowing the money she receives from a career-ending car accident, Asha finds herself strung out on pain medication and low on cash. Desperate for money to feed her addiction, she teams up with her Aunt Lynn and hits the strip of the notorious Cash Avenue. But her life is interrupted when her boyfriend is gunned down by her neighbor Shon's boyfriend, Manson - who also happens to be her arch enemy, Carly's baby daddy. The feuding women learn that they have more in common than a man - they have a deep love affair with money and will do anything to get it.

Un sospechoso de homicidio desaparece tras un accidente ferroviario en el oeste de Buenos Aires y la policía trata de dar con su paradero mientras los medios de comunicación difunden especulaciones y análisis superficiales.

Milano, quattordici anni fa. Chon ha dodici anni e l'udito di un pipistrello. Riesce a cogliere un bisbiglio a distanza di trenta metri. Ecco perché, quando sente due uomini correre su per le scale del palazzo in cui vive e sfondare la porta di casa, si nasconde e resta immobile sotto il divano. Poi, solo spari e sangue. Chon diventa l'unico sopravvissuto all'agguato nel quale perde la vita tutta la sua famiglia. Sotto choc, si sottrae al controllo della polizia e si rifugia nelle gallerie sotterranee della metropolitana, dove rimane per sessantatré giorni, senza mai vedere la luce.

Asfissiamo all'interno di dubbi infernali, crocifissi nel cuore, sperando forse in maniera utopistica di riconciliarci lestamente con la nostra natura umana più bella e paradisiaca, augurandoci di fare di nuovo all'amore con una donna pura... Mentre, nel capoluogo felsineo e nel mondo intero, a briglia sciolta si propaga infermabile una tenebrosa malattia oscura di pandemica natura sulfurea, nei dintorni dell'asfittica e nera, delittuosa e omertosa Bologna insanguinata nella sua più innocente e profonda anima oramai infranta e corrotta.

After years of IVF, Kirsten White is a devoted mum to Harriet - and she can’t believe the time has come to send her little girl off to school. But Harriet has now turned five, and she can’t stay Kirsten’s baby forever. It might be hard, but it’s time to entrust her daughter’s care to her new teacher...the classroom is the one place she should be safe. Miriam Robertson has been waiting for the perfect little girl to walk into her class. She’s very picky...but when Harriet walks in, Miriam knows: this is the child she’s been waiting for.

Fatherless and as good as motherless, Messiah "Mash" Bankfield must shake his nagging religion from his conscious if he wants to level up in a city centered around the '90s drug boom, twisted sexual exploitation, hardcore hip hop, and deep ghetto philosophy. Even if it requires hustling the same stuff that turned his mother into a dope fiend or taking out the big homies who showed him love, some things just must be. Shaped by the unsavory lifestyle of his sugar-daddy seeking sister and haunted by the spirit of his deceased grandmother, Mash sinks deeper into the darkness.

Los Angeles, Hollywood 1969. Rick Dalton war einst Star seiner eigenen Fernsehserie und hält sich heute mit Schurkenrollen über Wasser. Zusammen mit seinem Stunt-Double Cliff versucht er alles, um seiner Karriere neuen Schwung zu verleihen. Dabei müssen sie sich durch eine Welt windiger Agenten und aufgehender Sternchen schlagen, die mitten im Umbruch ist. Dabei kreuzt sich ihr Weg mit dem Haufen Hippies rund um den Ex-Knacki Charles Manson - und das Goldene Zeitalter Hollywoods steuert rasant seinem Ende entgegen.

Max Caruthers, a born-again Christian with a hard-living past, travels to Guatemala to track down his father Norman, who wants to drink away his remaining days undisturbed in the little bar that serves as home. But Norman has fallen into debt with the local gangster and chief-of-police Chucho Cruz, who has other plans for the gringo bus driver. Up north in California, Vicki Valle, the former girlfriend of a recently assassinated LA gang leader, is deported over a triviality back to Tijuana.

Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for unscrupulous politicians and underworld figures. Now, he’s stumbled upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute that involves a prominent US senator - and finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past....

Dubbed “Dewey Decimal” for his desire to reorganize the library’s stock, he gets by as bagman and muscle for New York City’s unscrupulous district attorney. He takes no pleasure in this kind of civic dirty work. He’d be perfectly content alone among his books. But this is not in the cards, as the DA calls on Dewey for a seemingly straightforward union-busting job.

In this second title in the London-based Crane and Drake mystery series, Cal Drake has left the police force and is now working as a private detective, having teamed up with the motorcycle-riding Dr Rayhana Crane. The chilling discovery of a severed head on the Tube draws Calil Drake back to the case he failed to solve four years ago which left his police career in tatters. Crane and Drake investigate while also searching for Howeida Almanara - a young international student from the Gulf and the missing girlfriend of a Crane family friend.

David Diegert is ensnared into serving Crepusculous, the secret society that controls the economy. In spite of his reluctance, Diegert is coerced into completing deadly missions in which the stakes keep getting higher. Set up to take the fall for killing a target of immense importance, his fragile world falls apart. Betrayed by Crepusculous, he becomes a fugitive sought after from all sides. An unexpected ally is found in a CIA agent convinced of Diegert’s innocence. She helps him escape, only to force him into undermining Crepusculous’s plan for economic collapse.

No magician has ever escaped Coldwater Prison. But that is exactly where Amanda Coleman, heist artist and Abra-killer, must go. Somewhere in London, a mysterious blackmailer has enough evidence to put Amanda’s head in a noose and ensure her only remaining daughter, Michaela, is right alongside her when it happens. To save Michaela, Amanda must assassinate one of Coldwater’s most infamous residents. But the only way in is as an inmate. But a notorious Abra-killer like Amanda can expect a few old enemies in a prison full of mages, and they have their own plans.