Michael Connelly
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Harry Bosch, newly transferred to the Homicide Special Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, is faced with the task of breaking in a rookie partner while investigating the murder of a physicist who had access to radioactive cesium, a substance coveted by terrorists.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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A dog's discovery of a human bone drags Detective Bosch into a twenty-year-old case of murder, a case that leads him deeper and deeper into a violent past even as he finds his present being lit by a rookie cop named Julia Brasher.
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Accelerated Reader
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...
4) The poet
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While journalist Jack McEvoy is conducting his own investigation following the suicide of his brother, he becomes a potential victim of a serial killer who specializes in murdering police officers.
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In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Henry Pierce enters a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions when he investigates the messages left on his new telephone "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." He leaves behind his company, the fund-raising "chasing the dime" and a life driven by work to track down and help a woman he has never met. In the process he becomes the victim of astonishing violence, the chief suspect in a murder case, and fighting for his...
7) Void moon
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Ex-con Cassie Black, lured back to a life of crime by a desperate need for money, lines up a mark to rob at a Las Vegas casino, only to find she has been set up by Jack Karch, a psychopathic private investigator employed by the mob.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA 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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
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Criminal defense lawyer Mickey Haller's newest client is Lisa Trammel, a young woman accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home, and despite mounting evidence and his own suspicions that his client is guilty, Mickey vows to clear Lisa's name, and when he uncovers a conspiracy with millions of dollars at stake, Mickey realizes someone besides Lisa had a bigger motive for murder and a reason to kill Mickey to keep him...
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Harry Bosch volume 7
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When a slew of slayings leave the LAPD puzzled, they call on retired FBI agent turned best selling author Terry McCaleb for help. McCaleb, known for his ability to profile serial killers, is shocked when his methods indicate that his former partner, homicide detective Harry Bosch, could very well be the killer.
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In the mid-1970s, the city of Boston entered a period of upheaval on both its historic cobblestone streets and its legendary parquet basketball court. The Boston Celtics' long dominance of the NBA came to an abrupt end, and the city's image as a hub of social justice was shaken to its core. When the federal courts declared, in 1974, that the city was in violation of school desegregation rulings and would need to institute a busing program, Boston...
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Amayehli is a story of America set in the not so distant future. It is a story of the American people who suddenly find themselves having to fight for the fundamental freedoms that they have always cherished and often taken for granted. It is a story of treachery, espionage, treason, tragic loss, and tremendous valor by the diverse people who are proud to call themselves Americans. Ultimately, it is a story of people who risk everything for liberty....
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The novel One Batter, One Pitch is a sequel to An Informal Boston Education, which chronicled the chaotic, frenetic, and hilarious career, social, and romantic missteps of quirky, wisecracking, ballplaying, weightlifting, and beer-drinking young Boston CPA Rocky Collins. With the help of a good woman and promising new job, he finally gets his life under control. But now he's approaching middle age, frustrated with limiting age-related physical issues...
16) Hieronymus Bosch
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The #1 New York Times–bestselling author brings you into the world of the LAPD's Harry Bosch, and the history that shaped him.
In this short work, Michael Connelly delves into the origins of his famed police detective,-how he faced down the horrors of his childhood (a background story that was based on the life of another renowned crime writer); his past as a tunnel rat in Vietnam; and why jazz is his soundtrack. Connelly also shares the story...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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2022.
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The #1 New York Times –bestselling author tells the origin story of LA defense attorney Mickey Haller. In this concise, absorbing account, Michael Connelly reveals the work--and the strokes of luck--that contributed to his creation of the character Mickey Haller, the subject of multiple bestselling novels as well as the hit Netflix series. He reveals the lawyers, both fictional and real-life, who played a role in shaping the sharp-witted attorney...
18) Blue on Black
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, a short story featuring LAPD Detective Harry Bosch and FBI agent Rachel Walling.
Two women have gone missing, and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch has a strong suspicion that an avid fisherman named Denninger is the culprit. Bosch needs something stronger than a suspicion to bring Denninger in, but all he has are a handful of photos--prior mug shots and pictures of Denninger posing with his...
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In the Shadow of the Master is an exceptional collection of classic stories from the lord of literary darkness himself-the inimitable Edgar Allan Poe-accompanied by enthralling essays from twenty of his bestselling acolytes and admirers. With appreciations by Michael Connelly, Stephen King, Lisa Scottoline, Tess Gerritsen, Laura Lippman, Nelson DeMille, Lawrence Block, and thirteen others, In the Shadow of the Master is a must-have for thriller and...
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117 years Strong…and Counting!This all-new edition, which follows the Boston Marathon into the 21st century and through the tragedy of the 2013 race, is a colorful and moving portrait of what it feels like to run the world's oldest annual marathon, escorting the reader through the past, present, and bright future of the race.26.2 Miles to Boston is a rich, vibrant, and inspiring history of the Boston Marathon and of the men and women of varying...
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