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If Tomorrow Comes is a 1985 crime fiction novel by American author Sidney Sheldon.It is a story portraying an ordinary woman who is framed by the Mafia, her subsequent quest for vengeance towards them and her later life as a con-artist.
Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld is 1992 non-fiction book written by Teresa Carpenter about mafia informant and mob moll Arlyne Brickman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was published by Simon & Schuster .
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The novel received varying reviews. In Time magazine, R.Z. Sheppard said "This posthumously published novel by the author of The Godfather has more tasty twists than a plate of fusilli", and "this deft and passionate last novel by the Balzac of the Mafia", [4] while Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times "Fact is, the more I think about it, the more this book gives me agita.
Lay Them to Rest, by Laurah Norton As the host of the wildly popular and deeply researched true crime podcast The Fall Line, Laurah Norton has come across many cases of Jane and John Does—people ...
The Camorra would buy the girls from the Albanian mafia for US$2,000. Many of them came on the promise of legitimate work in order to escape the crushing poverty of their homeland, but once they arrived, they were practically enslaved and forced into prostitution by the Camorra. Many such girls were underage. They were often put on drugs.
At a bar with his new American colleagues Leonard meets a girl called Maria to whom he is 'innocent' due to having never had sex before. They become engaged but after their engagement party Maria's ex-husband Otto, a self-proclaimed war hero and alcoholic turns up and starts a very violent fight with the couple.
Critical reception for Innocence was mixed.Publishers Weekly's Stephanie Feldman has listed the book as one of her "10 Creepiest Books." [1] The Boston Globe and Library Journal both praised Innocence, with The Boston Sunday Globe writing, "Borrowing classic ingredients from the genres of horror films and popular literature, Mendelsohn has concocted a coming-of-age tale about a Manhattan girl ...