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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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Now working as a criminal defense attorney in Oakland, Leo Maxwell thinks he's found a new client after a mysterious woman knocks him off his bicycle with her car. She just so happens to have a brother who needs defense on a murder charge. Leo readily agrees and dives right into the investigation. After taking a series of photographs that seem to blow the lid on corruption in the police department, Leo quickly discovers he's been had. His client already...
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2022.
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English
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"Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his motherand sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore,...
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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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When a self-made mining magnate and absolute ruler of her town and its officials tries to keep her son ignorant of his fatal hit-and-run accident, Turner of Cape Town homicide, who refuses to be bought, will stop at nothing to get justice for the victims family.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), that terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade. When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealer-one that he wanted to rob. This is the story of Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a super group of dirty detectives who exploited the some of America's greatest problems: guns,...
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"Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities. It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the station, her kids are gone. And then the cops start saying...
9) Canary
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Mulholland Books, Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Mulholland Books paperback edition.
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English
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"College honors student Sarie Holland is busted by the local police while doing a favor for her new boyfriend. Unwilling to betray him but desperate to avoid destroying her future, Sarie has no choice but to become a 'CI' - a confidential informant. She turns out to be the perfect CI: a quick study with a shockingly keen understanding of the criminal mind. But the narcotics officer assigned to her case, hungry for results, pushes too hard and inadvertently...
10) The son: a novel
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[2014]
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English
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Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin?and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police,...
11) Triple 9
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
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English
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A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plot to murder a police officer in order to pull off a heist.
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English
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Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...
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The shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a Pulitzer Prize.
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Sophie Brinkman trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Breaking her personal code to date a charming patient, Sophie Brinkmann discovers that he is the head of a powerful international crime organization warring against a ruthless German syndicate.
15) 36th precinct
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Français
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In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality, until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals...
16) I am wrath
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
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A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
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King Oliver novels volume 1
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English
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After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
19) Line of sight
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English
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"All favors come with a cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get his private investigators license, former crime reporter Russell Avery finds himself paying. He spends his days reluctantly keeping sideways cops out of the crosshairs of the Internal Affairs department. Until Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a troubling video: a made-for-Youtube cell phone snippet chronicling the same kind...
20) Blue-eyed devil
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Series
Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief Amos Callico, itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch protect local merchants who the chief is harassing for protection money, a situation that escalates to the shooting of a politically connected landowner's son.
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