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Late one night, Sergeant Pete Decker discovers an abandoned toddler wearing blood-stained pyjamas and covered in bee-stings. Decker and his partner Marge Dunn resolve to find her parents, but nothing prepares them for the gruesome mystery they find themselves stirring up.
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2
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"Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 9
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The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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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...
6) Hangman
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When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker agrees to do a favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that it will bring her sociopathic husband, Chris Donatti, back into his life. But then Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears, leaving their 14-year-old son Gabe behind. Then Adrianna Blanc, a party-loving nurse, is found swinging from the rafters. Her last phone call announced she was breaking up with her philandering boyfriend. But was it suicide?...
7) Echo Park
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
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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.
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Rachel Knight novels volume 2
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Deputy district attorney Rachel Knight takes the case of a murdered homeless man, over the objections of potentially backstabbing rivals. With the help of Detective Bailey Keller, she finds a missing piece of the puzzle, and realizes that the case is connected to the vicious murder of a LAPD cop a year earlier. The primary suspect in that case had been acquitted, but now Rachel and Bailey are hot on the trail of new leads.
9) Heat 2
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"Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, Manhunter, and Miami Vice, teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel - an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat - an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the iconic film."--
10) Vertical coffin
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Shane Scully novels volume 4
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A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons...
11) The beast
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"Over the years, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus have got through a lot together. They've faced more than their share of serial killers and psychopaths. But this time two very different cases may cause them to re-evaluate everything they hold dear. One case involves Gabe, the troubled boy they've taken into their home. The other is much stranger - a man is found dead in his apartment, apparently mauled by his pet tiger. There is more to each case than...
12) 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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John Darvelle mysteries volume 1
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Private detective John Darvelle is hired by a powerful Los Angeles filmmaker to find a young woman who just might be hiding something, and as he plunges deep into the hidden world of the Hollywood elite finds himself on a twisting, turning journey that puts him face-to-face with the LAPD, a ruthless underground crime operation, and a cold-blooded killer.
14) The hunt
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"Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in Upstate New York, in the very woods where a man previously went missing ... But that's not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with. Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and Rina's foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two other children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction amid a messy...
15) The burnt house
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Following the crash of a commuter plane into an apartment building, Los Angeles Police Lt. Peter Decker tried to calm the people of the community, although he had many unanswered questions. Was it terrorism or mechanical failure? Months afterward, he still had no answers. With all the bodies recovered except Roseanne Dresden, the flight attendant, Roseanne's parents insisted foul play was involved. The investigation leads Decker and Rina down dangerous...
17) The third to die
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Quinn & Costa volume 1
Thorndike large print mystery
Quinn and Costa thriller volume 01
Quinn and Costa volume 1
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Thorndike large print mystery
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"A notorious serial killer is back. An edgy female police detective. An ambitious FBI special agent. Together they are at the heart of the ticking-clock investigation into a psychopathic murderer. The bond they forge in this crucible sets the stage for high-stakes suspense. Detective Kara Quinn is on an early morning jog in Liberty Lake when she discovers the body of a young nurse. The manner of death reveals a highly controlled rage. Word quickly...
18) The narrows
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 10
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FBI agent Rachel Walling and former LAPD detective Harry Bosch get calls that the serial killer who wove verses into his crimes has returned; Rachel and Harry find themselves at odds with the FBI and in the path of a ruthless murderer.
19) Walking shadows
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DETECTIVE PETER DECKER AND HIS WIFE, RINA LAZARUS, RISK LIFE AND LIMB TO SOLVE A PAIR OF BRUTAL MURDERS THAT MAY BE TIED TO A CRIME FROM MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THIS INTENSE AND ADDICTIVE MYSTERY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FAYE KELLERMAN On a gorgeous early summer morning in the small upstate college town of Greenbury, New York, Peter Decker is called to investigate some vandalized mailboxes on a rural street. Searching for evidence...
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