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Alex Delaware novels volume 19
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Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need to talk once again with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Or has...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 18
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When a series of murders are connected with a shadowy psychology practice, Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis must immerse themselves in a world of manipulation and unethical "therapeutic" practices. Delaware must bring his moral clarity to bear on these wrongs, and do his best to see them righted.
23) The blue knight
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During the three days before his retirement from the Los Angeles police force, Bumper Morgan intensifies his activities on his beat, with disastrous results.
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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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...
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Driven by rage, the recently fired employee of a chic Los Angeles restaurant returns with a machine gun blazing. Thirteen people are left dead and 32 wounded. The news sends chills up the spine of Homicide Detective Peter Decker. As he investigates, an alarming inconsistency arises--evidence that shows more than one weapon was fired. Soon he is risking his reputation and his life to uncover a vast conspiracy that plumbs the depths of a deadly criminal...
28) Suspect
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Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Scott James is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partner's killer.
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While on a camping trip, Detective Peter Decker and his two young charges come across the charred remains of two teenage girls. Embroiled in a disturbing case, Decker's only unifying thread in a network of violence and corruption is the deaths of the two apparently very different young girls.
30) 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?...
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The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff stortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious...
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A brutal homicide three thousand miles away has justshattered the tranquility of Lt. Peter Decker's household. The frantic phonecall sends him and his wife, Rina, on a plane east to the home of Decker's halfbrother, a rabbi whose brother-in-law's naked body was found in a sleazyManhattan hotel room/ Even more disturbing: the dead man's fifteen-year-oldniece-and possibly the last person to see him alive-has disappeared, leavingher family crazed with...
33) Stalker: a novel
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Cindy Decker's decision to follow in the footsteps of her police lieutenant father was never an easy one. For Pete Decker is, to say the least, overprotective of his only daughter. So when Cindy begins to wonder if she is being followed -- maybe even stalked -- her father is the last person she can confide in. Frantically trying to contend with her own raw, gnawing fear whilst balancing her work and a clandestine relationship with one of Decker's...
34) 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.
35) Compulsion
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A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. Now Delaware and Sturgis must track down the killer.
36) Mystery
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Alex Delaware novels volume 26
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Jonathan Kellerman's Mystery opens in a bar where Dr. Alex Delaware and his girlfriend, Robin, are amused by several men who can't seem to keep their eyes off a stunning young girl drinking alone. But Alex finds nothing funny the next morning when homicide detective Milo Sturgis stops by with crime scene photos in which the "bar girl" figures prominently. How can Alex tell? Not by her face, which has been obliterated. It's her clothes that catch his...
37) Harbor nocturne
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A young longshoreman's delivery of a Mexican dancer from the busy harbor of San Pedro to a Hollywood nightclub changes both of their lives when they encounter individuals on opposing sides of the law, including surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, aspiring actor Hollywood Nate, and young Britney Small.
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Hollywood Station volume 3
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Dana Vaughn, the LAPD's toughest cop, and her partner, former Hollywood actor Nate Weiss, are called to investigate a serial rapist. Meanwhile, fellow officers Flotsam and Jetsam are tracking a pair of suspicious bikers. However, when their cases cross paths and reveal something much more sinister, the foursome embarks on a career-changing case.
39) Obsession
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Alex Delaware novels volume 21
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Tanya Bigelow asks Dr. Alex Delaware to help her uncover the truth about her aunt's deathbed murder confession, and Alex's search for the unknown victim leads him into L.A.'s seedy underside and a new murder case with explosive links to the past.
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Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
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