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The artful goddaughter

a Gina Gallo mystery
In order to inherit two million dollars from her great-uncle Seb, gemologist and mob family member Gina Gallo must return a stolen painting by breaking into an art gallery and replacing the duplicate with an original.
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The goddaughter

A young gemologist, who happens to be related to the local mob, is reluctantly recruited to smuggle diamonds across the border--with hilarious consequences.

Mafia spies

the inside story of the CIA, gangsters, JFK, and Castro
2019
A definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plot ever--with CIA agents, mob hitmen, 'kompromat' sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional hearings and a national debate about the JFK assassination. This book revolves around the outlaw friendship of these two mob buddies and their fascinating world of CIA spies, fellow Mafioso in Chicago, Cuban exile commandos in Miami, beautiful Hollywood women, famous entertainers like Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Castro's own spies in Havana and his double agents hidden in Florida, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI snooping, and the Kennedy administration's 'Get Castro' obsession in Washington. Who killed Johnny and Sam--and why wasn't Castro assassinated despite the CIA's many clandestine efforts?.

Run for your life

2018
"A talented young runner, Santino, lives in Palermo, Sicily--a beautiful region of Italy that's dominated by the Mafia. With Santino's first communion approaching, his father and grandfather carry out a theft to pay for the party--but they steal from the wrong people. A young, cocky, Mafioso summons them to a meeting, and they bring the boy. As Santino wanders off into the old abandoned neighborhood, he hears shots and runs back to see two armed men--and his father and grandfather slumped over in the car. The boy barely escapes with his life. Now, he's left with a choice: cooperate with police and be a 'rat,' or mainain Omerta?: the code of silence. Twelve-year-old Lucio lives in the northern Italian city of Livorno and dreams of sailing when not taking care of his young sister, Ilaria, and his sick mother, who is convinced that a witch has cursed her. One day, Lucio's mother goes missing and he receives a mysterious text: 'Come to Palermo. Mamma is dying.' Panicked, Lucio grabs Ilaria and rushes to Sicily, where Lucio's and Santino's stories converge with explosive results"--OCLC.

A dash of dragon

2018
"Thirteen-year-old master chef [Lailu Loganberry] has a lot to prove as she runs a five-star restaurant, cooks the perfect dragon cuisine, repays a greedy loan shark, and outsmarts the Elven mafia"--Amazon.
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A dash of dragon

2017
"Thirteen-year-old master chef [Lailu Loganberry] has a lot to prove as she run a five-star restaurant, cook the perfect dragon cuisine, repay a greedy loan shark, and outsmart the Elven mafia"--Amazon.

Broken arrow

2015
Steve's trip to Spain is interrupted when he undertakes a mission to investigate what part his grandfather played in a bombing off the coast of Spain.

The Black Hand

the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history
Examines how Joseph Petrosino hunted down the Black Hand in the early 1900s.

The people behind murderous crime sprees

Looks at the upbringing, influences, motives, and psychological conditions of several people who have gone on killing sprees, including Al Capone, Richard Speck, and others.

Football Genius: Football Hero

2008
When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.

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