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1) Cold hit
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Shane Scully novels volume 5
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Investigating the murders of several homeless Vietnam veterans, detective Shane Scully and his partner stumble on a death that suggests the work of a copy-cat killer, in a case that is further complicated by a ten-year-old unsolved murder. - (Baker & Taylor)
2) White sister
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Shane Scully novels volume 6
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Frantically searching for his wife, Alexa, who vanished after a night out at L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully investigates the execution-style murder of an African-American gang member found in Alexa's car.
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John Ridley, the best-selling author of The Drift, is renowned for his gritty, violent tales and their razor-sharp dialogue. This foray into science fiction is an explosive thriller. In the near future, superheroes are very real. But so are supervillains. When San Francisco is toasted during a super being clash, America has had enough. All metanormals must leave the country-or face extermination at the hands of an elite new law enforcement branch....
4) The exile
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The newest and youngest member of LAPD's famed 5-2 squad finds himself pitted against a brilliant and ruthless killer with global ambitions.
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It's 1986. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, private eye Gene Burk becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. While attempting to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Fuller's demise, Gene is unexpectedly contacted by a woman from his fiancée's hometown, a survivor of the Manson Family who needs his help to escape her past.
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Charlotte Justice novels volume 3
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During the Los Angeles campaign to replace longtime incumbent mayor Tom Bradley, the stakes are high for Detective Charlotte Justice, of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. When she's called to Koreatown to investigate the shocking murder of Vicki Park, special markets strategist for an upstart campaign, all of her skills-and fears-come to the fore. Park, a Korean, is found bludgeoned and bound, her body dumped in an alley. But who was the...
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LAPD Detective Kate Delafield has a new, iron-willed female lieutenant-a tough new partner who may turn out to be a much-needed ally. She also has a dangerous new case.
A reclusive old man has been brutally slain at the La Brea Tar Pits. The unusual investigation could uncover the truth of humanity's ancient past, and at the same time expose the corruption and violence of the present. And everyone involved-from an alluring scientist with a dark secret...
9) Run the risk
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In the wake of a series of bizarre crimes, Los Angeles homicide detective Alex Delillo is baffled by a tangle of ambiguous clues and follows leads that become increasingly violent.
10) The last embrace
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In 1949 Los Angeles, Lily Kessler, a former stenographer and spy for the OSS, is asked by her late fiancé's mother to find out what happened to his sister Kitty, an actress who is missing from her Hollywood boardinghouse. Although the aspiring starlets at the house insist that Kitty is off somewhere furthering her career, her body is found the next day in a ravine below the Hollywood sign. Unimpressed by the local police, Lily investigates on her...
11) Never fear
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Seventeen years after an unidentified killer murdered three women in Los Angeles, a Pasadena homicide detective and single mother whose own father had been the prime suspect reopens the case as a means of solving the murder of the brother she never knew
12) Saints
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Sons of war (Sansbury Smith) volume 2
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In the aftermath of a devastating civil war, America has fallen into anarchy and chaos. Los Angeles is divided into different territories controlled by criminal organizations. Don Antonio Moretti has won a slice of the pie but is hungry for more. In his quest for power, he sends his nephew and a small crew to Mexico, to negotiate a new deal for their staple product, while the don returns to Italy for some unfinished business. While the crime families...
13) Sons of war
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"Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore's platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from...
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