Michael Connelly
Author
Series
Mickey Haller novels volume 3
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 04
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 03
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 04
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 03
Language
English
Description
After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating...
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 4
Harry Bosch novels
Renée Ballard volume 04
Ren©♭e Ballard volume 4
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Harry Bosch novels
Renée Ballard volume 04
Ren©♭e Ballard volume 4
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Language
English
Description
"There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. Criminal defense in Los Angeles has virtually dried up, and he has had to expand his business into foreclosure defense. But just when Mickey thinks criminal court is in his rearview mirror, one of his new clients is accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. For Mickey, it's back to what he does best. He puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, despite what seems...
4) The overlook
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
Having left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a doctor whose death is linked to the theft of a dangerous radioactive substance that may be part of a terrorist plot.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2
Renee Ballard volume novel
Bosch and Ballard volume 01
Ballad and Bosch novel volume 1
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Renee Ballard volume novel
Bosch and Ballard volume 01
Ballad and Bosch novel volume 1
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Language
English
Description
Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat--known in LAPD slang as "the late show"--and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has...
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
On New Year's day, a dog find a bone in the Hollywood Hills-and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No offical warning can break them apart-or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of A Darkness More than Night comes a searing thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror. Henry Price has a whole new life-new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. He soon discovers that the messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in serious trouble that could cost him all he holds dear. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's...
8) Echo Park
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Description
"Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves. Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret. When he was young, he had a relationship with a Mexican girl, his great love. But soon after becoming pregnant, she disappeared. Did...
10) Angels flight
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
When an African American lawyer, infamous for his lawsuits alleging racism by LAPD police officers, is murdered on the eve of a sensational trial, Harry Bosch, facing a suspect list that includes half the department, is assigned the case. To make matters worse, Bosch's wife, Eleanor, has disappeared. Bosch fears she has left him, or succumbed to her gambling addiction.
11) Trunk music
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is back at the LAPD in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls-Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - the execution style of the Mafia where the victim is shot in his own vehicle - but the victim is LA movie producer Tony Aliso, and the mob weren't the only ones after...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Detective Harry Bosch has known for years. Bosch still carries in his pocket a matchbook he picked up there on a case years ago. Its motto--'Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself'--has been a guiding light through some of his darkest days. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Harry hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. The world Bosch...
13) The last coyote
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly...
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Bosch investigates a cold case and the murder of a city councilman's son. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.
15) Fair warning
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. Jack investigates--against the warnings of the police and his own editor--and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. Undetected by law enforcement, a vicious...
16) The late show
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. It's a frustrating assignment for a once up-and-coming detective, but it's no accident. She's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with. First, a prostitute...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him...
Author
Series
Mickey Haller novels volume 5
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 06
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 05
Harry Bosch volume 25
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 06
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 05
Harry Bosch volume 25
Language
English
Description
"Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in this gripping new courtroom thriller. He defends a murder case in which the victim was his former client. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim...
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the L.A. Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
ADVENTURE / THRILLER. He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But...