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1) Nightwork
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Language
English
Description
"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago -- presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice -- has never reconciled...
3) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
4) The partner
Author
Language
English
Description
A thriller on the international movement of dirty money. Its protagonist is an American lawyer who skips the country with $90 million belonging to crooks. They catch up with him in Brazil, torture him, but he does not know where the money is, his lawyer girlfriend is circulating it around the globe. Extradited to the U.S. to face various charges he is going to use the money to get off.
5) Sleepwalker
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Language
English
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Description
While house-sitting for her Uncle Nicco, policewoman Micayla Lange catches Jason Davis in the act of stealing money from her uncle's locked safe hen they both find incriminating photos that that implicate Nicco in the murder of a city councilman, Mick and Jason hurtle into a race for their lives.
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Series
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English
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Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport investigates the beating death of wealthy widow Constance Bucher and her maid, and a string of folks variously connected to the Bucher slaying become victims of two killers as Davenport gradually begins to see a pattern emerging.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 15
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew becomes involved in a double mystery concerning a haunted bridge and jewel thieves.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
10) The code
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Needing to pay off the Russian mob, a veteran thief takes on a younger partner for one last heist.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When two desperate men overhear rumors that a railroad worker has run off with stolen gold to a ranch in Northern California, they put a plan in motion to steal the goods. Saul, the younger of the drifters, uses his charm to get hired on as ranch hand where trouble begins to stir. Between the affair with his new bosses beautiful wife and escaping ruthless mercenaries who are also after the treasure, Saul is forced to question: Who is betraying whom?...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Blue streak: Master jewel thief Miles Logan has a big problem. A $20 million problem. Recently released from prison for the botched heist of a huge diamond, he's anxious to retrieve the hot rock which he hid at a construction site two years earlier.
National security: L.A.P.D. reject and major troublemaker, Earl, ends up getting L.A. police officer, Hank, kicked off the force for brutality. Now, these two guys, who can't stand each other, are stuck...
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The return of Jafar: "Aladdin's story picks up where the original movie left off. When Jafar's last wish was granted, he became the world's most powerful genie. Now he has escaped the magic lamp, and he's thirsty for vengeance. Join Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, Abu, Carpet and Genie as they team up to save the kingdom from Jafar's evil plot!"--Container.
Aladdin and the king of thieves: "There's a grand party in Agrabah to celebrate the marriage of...
16) The pink panther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A bumbling, disaster-prone inspector invades a Swiss ski resort and becomes obsessed with capturing a jewel thief hoping to lift the legendary 'Pink Panther' diamond.
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley ... No matter--with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Trained from an early age as a cat burglar, orphaned teenager K Westree is sent to ramshackle Bellsong Academy by a group known as "The Obtainers," who need to hone her skills so that she can solve a mystery surrounding her past and that of the school.
19) Ocean's eight
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.