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English
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Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie, is the last dragon on Earth and is hiding out in a Louisiana swamp. He strikes a deal with Cajun swamp rat Squib: Squib will keep him company and fetch supplies for him and Vern will protect Squib from the dirty cop that is chasing him. However, there will be soon be a firery reckoning, in which dragons wither finally become extinct or Ver's glory days are back.
4) I am wrath
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired captain, Internal Affairs Bureau. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cops intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one. As Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled...
8) Exposed
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a detective starts to investigate his partner's shocking death, he uncovers disturbing evidence of police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it's a setup. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch takes the case. With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself...
10) Bad lieutenant
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A middle aged policeman has no escape from his underground connections with gamblers, drug dealers and cheap sex. A case of a raped nun who forgives her aggressors shakes him deeply. But his quest for changing his life comes too late. The gang he owes gambling money to has no more patience, and shoots him dead.
11) Triple 9
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A bank robbery is just the tip of the iceberg when two cops in Atlanta start suspecting members of their own team are involved. Not knowing who to trust and how deep the corruption goes, time is ticking for them to uncover the truth, before they become the target for the next deadly job.
12) Earth angels
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
A special gang unit of the Los Angeles police goes to far in their battle with the gangs of East Los Angeles.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This gun for hire (1 hr., 21 min.): Double-crossed by his boss, a hit man vows revenge and finds himself involved with a sultry nightclub singer who has motives of her own.
The glass key (1 hr., 26 min.): A loyal right-hand man must endure gangsters, the police and the advances of his boss' fiancee as he searches for a killer.
Double indemnity (1 hr., 48 min.): An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect...
14) The judgment
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In Detroit, lawyer Charley Sloan investigates a bizarre series of murders of children. The killer is bathing their bodies, wrapping them in plastic and placing them in the snow, laid out like angels.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into the obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. His rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell.
The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel with the political novel. It is winter, 1950, and the L.A. authorities are targeting movieland Reds. The three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the kudos they can. But a series of brutal sex killings...
Author
Series
Cat DeLuca mystery volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Chicago private eye Cat DeLuca, founder of the Pants on Fire Detective Agency, catches liars and cheats|and, from time to time, killers." --
Chicago private eye Cat DeLuca, founder of the Pants on Fire Detective Agency, was briefly married to runaround Johnnie Rizzo. Her experiences gave her the mad skills she needed for her agency: she only investigates cheating husbands. So why, when someone kidnaps Captain Bob's dog and claims to have evidence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession--he's waited 50 years to make it, and now it can't wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
At the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, three former detectives and their lovely, ambitious boss tackle cases abandoned by the metropolitan police. Although their crime-solving skills are top-notch, the detectives each have their fair share of personal demons.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian "kingpin" statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was innocent, as did the detectives who investigated and...
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