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Echo Park (Harry Bosch (Hardcover))

by Michael Connelly

Detective Harry Bosch reopens one of his own unsolved cases and comes face to face with a psychotic killer he has been seeking for years. A thrilling new novel by the author of the #1 bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. In 1995 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman was never found. Now Bosch is in the... (more)

The Last Coyote (A Harry Bosch Novel)

by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch's life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's even had to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective's badge. Now, suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation, he's spending his time investigating an unsolved crime from 1961: the brutal slaying of a prostitute who happened to... (more)

White Butterfly : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender"

White Butterfly : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender"

by Walter Mosley, Paul Winfield

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed... (more)

Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel (Alex Powell Novels)

Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel (Alex Powell Novels)

by Karen Grigsby Bates

African-American reporter Alex Powell has the kind of curiosity that tends to get a nosy girl in big trouble. Luckily, she also has the wit and wiles to get out of it. But when Alex finds her boss, Everett Carson, dead at a black journalists' conference, she finds herself caught in a situation far nastier than normal ... and in grave danger. At least she's not alone. Fellow journalist and old friend Paul Butler... (more)

California Girl : A Novel (Parker, T Jefferson)

California Girl : A Novel (Parker, T Jefferson)

by T. Jefferson Parker

The times, they are a-changin' . . . The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more -- unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has brought about the end of the orange groves and the birth of suburban sprawl. It is the era of... (more)

Poet: Book 1

The Poet

by Michael Connelly

Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career.His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield.Jack is going to write the story.The problem is that Jack doesn't believe that his brother killed himself, and the more information he uncovers, the more it... (more)

Terry McCaleb: Book 2

A Darkness More Than Night

by Michael Connelly

When a sheriff's detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb's Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He's newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in Blood Work), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look... (more)

Chosen People (Alex Powell Novels)

by Karen Grigsby Bates

The Overlook: A Novel

by Michael Connelly

In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly... (more)

Black Betty : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green"

Black Betty : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green"

by Walter Mosley

1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was... (more)

Trunk Music (A Harry Bosch Novel)

by Michael Connelly

When B-grade L.A. movie producer Tony Aliso is found stuffed into the trunk of his Rolls Royce, all signs point to “trunk music” —a mob hit. Detective Harry Bosch, just back from an “involuntary stress leave,” is not so sure. And when he finds the money trail, he follows it…all the way to Vegas. Seems this Tony had his share of enemies, and in no time, so does Harry: Vegas thugs, LAPD’s organized crime unit, a... (more)

Angels Flight (Detective Harry Bosch Mysteries)

Angels Flight (Detective Harry Bosch Mysteries)

by Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly, whose novel The Poet won the 1997 Anthony Award for Best Mystery, is already recognized as one of the smartest and most vivid scribes of the hard-boiled police procedural. Now, with his much-anticipated sixth Harry Bosch novel, Angels Flight, Connelly offers one of the finest pieces of mystery writing to appear in 1998. Bosch is awakened in the middle of the night and, out of rotation, he is... (more)

The Black Ice

by Michael Connelly

The corpse in the hotel room appears to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumours abound that he had crossed - selling a new drug called Black Ice from Mexico - and the LAPD brass are quick to declare his death aside.But Harry Bosch isn't so sure; prompted by odd, inexplicable details from the crime scene, and attraction to the widow, he begins his own investigation. An investigation that takes him over... (more)

Walkin' the Dog

by Walter Mosley

The introduction of Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, was hailed as astonishing by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In this second book about the philosopher with rock-breaking hands, Socrates confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. Nine years after his release from prison, he is still... (more)

A Red Death : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Silver Lining"

A Red Death : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Silver Lining"

by Walter Mosley

It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when... (more)

Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Novel

by Walter Mosley

Los Angeles, 1965, right after the Watts Riots, six summer days of racial violence--burning, looting, and killing--that followed the routine arrest of a black motorist for drunken driving. Although custodian and unlicensed PI Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins stayed safely inside during the turmoil, as an African-American male he understands all too well what it was about. "It's hot and people are mad," he explains in Walter... (more)

Silent Joe

by T. Jefferson Parker

Scarred for life by a brutal father, Joe Trona found a safe haven and a loving childhood in the home of the couple who adopted him. Now he spends his days as a deputy for the Orange County sheriff's department and his nights as a driver and aide to Will Trona, the influential politician who rescued him from the Hillside Children's Home. An expert in firearms and the martial arts, Joe has been backing Will up for a... (more)

Merci Rayborn: Book 2

Red Light

by T. Jefferson Parker, Jefferson Parker

Parker's many fans met Merci Rayborn, the Orange County homicide investigator, in The Blue Hour, and will be happy to renew their acquaintance with her in Red Light. Although she's still mourning the death of her former partner Tim Hess, who fathered her 2-year-old son, her relationship with fellow cop Mike McNally is progressing nicely, and so is her career on the force. Then two murders, decades apart, come... (more)

Rhapsody in Blood: A Benjamin Justice Novel (Benjamin Justice Mysteries)

Rhapsody in Blood: A Benjamin Justice Novel (Benjamin Justice Mysteries)

by John Morgan Wilson

Disgraced journalist Benjamin Justice, at loose ends between jobs, takes a short vacation with a friend, Los Angeles Times reporter Alexandra Templeton, to a movie set at a faded resort hotel in the California desert. The film being shot is about a star+s death in the 1950+s and the lynching of a local black man for the murder-the last lynching in California. But the set is in an uproar over the appearance-and... (more)

Moth and Flame: A Benjamin Justice Novel (Benjamin Justice)

Moth and Flame: A Benjamin Justice Novel (Benjamin Justice)

by John Morgan Wilson

Benjamin Justice used to be one of Los Angeles's most respected journalists, but a scandal over invented sources cost him the Pulitzer, his job and his reputation. With his life in ruins, he's spent much of the past decade slowly piecing it back together. Now he's under contract to write his biography, but the writing is going slowly and he's in need of a job to tide him over financially. So when Bruce Bibby, a... (more)

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