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Al Jeery, a loyal member of the Cardinal's personal guard, is pulled from his duties at Party Central to investigate a murder mystery that draws in the dead, the City's Incan forefathers, the imposing figure of the Cardinal, and the near-mythical assassin Paucar Wami, who can kill anyone without fear of retribution.

This is the story of Vincent Louis Gigante, the Genovese Family crime overlord who ruled a sprawling criminal empire for a quarter century with an iron--and deadly--fist. Vinnie "Chin" Gigante displayed signs of insanity that stunned the public, stymied the police and the FBI, and secured his power for decades. Was he really crazy? Or crazy like a fox?.

In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park, eleven-year-old Claudeline Feng LeBernardin hopes to take over the "family business" previously run by her mobster grandfather, but first, she must try to uncover a local scam artist and salvage her friendship with her best friend and partner in crime, Fingerless Brett"--Provided by publisher.

Linda Scarpa grew up with the best of everything---the best toys, best clothes, and the best father. Yet her classmates were afraid to be her friends and when she was in high school boys were afraid to date her. She couldn't figure it out until her parents told her what her father did for a living---he was a Mafia hit man known as the "Grim Reaper." Linda couldn't quite believe it as her father was warm, loving, and a family man who played video games with her and always loved and protected her.

The infamous 1920's St. Valentine's Day Massacre involved a fight between gangsters. In the complicated underworld of Al Capone's Chicago, Jack McGurn is really Vincent Gebardi, a coldly efficient killer. Louise May Rolfe is his wife. As Jack/Vincent was being hunted as the perpetrator of the killings on St. Valentine's Day, his life was examined in minute detail by the press, and the couple's excesses and extremes define the Prohibition era in America.

In the 1920s, a ten-year-old newsgirl who aspires to be a reporter at the Chicago Tribune investigates the murder of a gangster.

Locke Lamora, a member of a group of orphans know for their wits and talent for thieving, finds himself pulled into the city's criminal underworld and struggles to free himself from the group before his life is destroyed.

Seventeen-year-old Spencer goes on an adventure laid out in his grandfather's will that requires him to seek a kiss from an aging movie star and catch it on film.

Looks at the rivalry between gangster Al Capone and FBI agent Eliot Ness.

Midnight, a fierce fighter with heart, is willing to do anything to defend his family, the woman he loves, his business, and his property. Follow Midnight from the wealthy North African estate of his father to the Brooklyn projects where he lives with his mother.