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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renee Ballard works the midnight shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing few, as each morning she turns everything over to the daytime units. It's a frustrating job 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
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.
Author
Series
Detective Harry Borsch volume 19
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent. Even a veteran cop would find this one tough going, but Bosch's new partner, Detective Lucia Soto, has no homicide experience. A young star in the department, Soto has...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Investigating the brutal murder of a woman seen at a restaurant closing two nights earlier, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware identify links between the victim and high-level secrets before the case is shattered by a stunning revelation.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mickey Haller, changing from defense attorney to prosecutor for this one important case, joins forces with Detective Harry Bosch when a child murderer is released on bail due to DNA evidence and needs to be retried, pitting Haller and Bosch against a slick defense attorney.
7) Deadline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Toots Loudenberry and her three best friends finds themselves navigating Hollywood's seedier side when a young starlet goes missing after last being seen with lawyer Chris Clay, the would-be beau of Toots' daughter, Abby.
9) Suspect
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
10) The late show
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ren�ee Ballard catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, Ballard works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to leaving show business in the '80s - and, of course, the seven husbands...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 344 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of reports about a young man who has been attacking women, LAPD cops Flotsam and Jetsam encounter a suspicious pair of individuals with ties to a deadly, high-tech organization that pits its own con artists against one another.
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief--with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by. She is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from the...
17) Strip
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu "Manco" Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank's night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make...
Author
Series
Mickey Haller volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mickey Haller must defend a client who is accused of killing the banker involved with her foreclosure, a case that reveals strong suspicions, black-market dealings, and a threat to Mickey's own life.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a pair of drug-addled criminals aims to make a planned art heist their own, LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing...