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Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
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Live by Night is set in the roaring '20s, when Prohibition hasn’t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing his money and his moll. The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa’s steamy rum-running underworld.
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The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.
A guy is dumped by his girlfriend before their long-planned romantic train trip across America. He's left with tickets under her name. Ultimately, he finds a replacement date for the cross-country train trip together.
Travis McGee, a free-living bachelor and reluctant hero who lives on a houseboat in Florida, works as a "salvage consultant," recovering property and money for clients and taking half the fee in return. McGee takes on tracking down a treasure that a solider escaped with and hid after World War II.
Set in the early 1900s, Joe Petrosino, a NYPD cop, goes after a ruthless gang (with the calling card black hand) that migrated from Italy to America. The thugs kidnap people and then extort money from their families. They are loathed by law-abiding Italian families who are frightened, but nevertheless help Petrosino behind the scenes. He arrests and deports as many of these criminals as he can, for the sake of his own heritage.
When the townspeople gather at a cemetery to bury a local man, they are suddenly interrupted by a loud plane crash in the desert. As the sheriff speeds toward the crash-site, he almost hits a man running down the road. He has no shoes, no memory and no ID. The only clue to who he is is a label in his jacket and a book that’s been inscribed to him: both giving him the name Solomon Creed. When he learns of the name of the Arizona town, he thinks he is there to save a man who was buried that morning. To uncover the story of his past, Solomon must first learn the town’s secrets and the truth behind the death of the man he is there to save. Along the way there are people willing to do anything to stop him, prepared to call on the darkest forces to prevent Solomon from succeeding.
Revolves around a serial killer in 1930s Chicago who stumbles upon a time traveling device.
Set in 2049 when the Earth is at a breaking point due to climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation, a radical faction known as the Wolfpack overthrows the government and takes control.