Showing results for "Hustle" in Crime Fiction

You have to play to win in a game of life and death Danni had to grow up fast – as a girl, her mother left her alone and she had to raise herself, any way she could. Finding comfort and company in the pubs and clubs of her local streets, she could throw a dart before she was old enough to buy...

What was meant to be a straightforward jewellery heist goes horribly wrong, and the thieves are forced to take a hostage to make their escape. But when they discover their prisoner is the infamous Nina Glass - one of the bosses of the most dangerous criminal dynasty in London - they soon realise they have made a terrible mistake. Greed wins out over good sense, and the gang decide to make the best of a bad situation.

Following a successful afternoon at Beverley races, Jack and Cam, a pair of Malton-based apprentice jockeys, head for a big night out in Scarborough. They return to their digs confused and unable to recall much about their evening on the town. So, nothing strange there! But within days, one has uncharacteristically sought to throw a race, and the other collides with a trainer while riding work on the Wold gallops. The racing authorities come sniffing around, sensing something is amiss. Suddenly, both their race-riding careers are in jeopardy.

Charleston’s top investigative TV reporter, Sydney Quinn, lives to expose the city’s darkest secrets. So when a former firefighter takes two paramedics hostage, she talks her way inside, offering to gather intel in exchange for a story that could boost her career. But when Sydney finds the body of her friend, a local insurance executive, at the scene, the scoop of a lifetime turns personal. The hostage-taker swears he’s been framed, pulling Sydney into a web of cybercrime, stolen identities, and corporate corruption that stretches far beyond Charleston’s polished waterfront.

Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor—an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists. Knox's shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It's not long before more than just the pizza shop is at risk.

From an award-winning author, Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woman and scores a rare windfall. Can he outrun disaster long enough to turn things around? Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away...

When Jacob Kidwell’s body is discovered, his death appears to be an accident. Major Crimes Detectives Quinn Delaney and Marci Burkett discover layers of deception wrapping the young man’s life. They also find someone meddling in their investigation—a friend of the deceased hoping to help. He’s sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong and creating new problems for the detectives.

With this cold case vigilante thriller, Mo Harris takes on a Mexican cartel, the FBI, and his own demons to solve a 20-year-old case.

Born to Hustle follows the lives of identical twin brothers as they learn to survive their abusive upbringing by identifying with fictional con men, imitating behaviors of gangsters and secret agents, to become the bad-ass boys in black. With no one to protect them, the twins grow up fearful of attachments to anyone else but one another. They learn to use being idents to hustle the world around them, becoming the ultimate grifters focused on becoming as rich as possible as quickly as possible.

For fun, a smart kid did a dumb thing: he hacked NASA. The government demands life imprisonment. Tanto and his group of clandestine hackers fight for the kid’s freedom. How far will Tanto risk his (and his team’s) freedom to protect a kid who made a mistake?