Michael Connelly
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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...
2) 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: 16
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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 something bigger and darker...
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FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.
Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict...
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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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When a lawyer is killed the night before he is supposed to present a landmark trial, Harry Bosch is called in to solve the crime, but when his most likely suspects are the other officers he works with, he finds himself trying to prevent the police department from choosing sides and causing a city-wide riot.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER – THE #1 TV SHOW ON NETFLIX
The bestselling legal thriller has charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy -- but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life.
The bestselling legal thriller has charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy -- but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life.
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates
9) 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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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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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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Accelerated Reader
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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...
13) The scarecrow
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Accelerated Reader
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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.
15) The late show
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Renee Ballard volume 1
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Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Detective Harry Bosch searches for the man who killed John Li, the owner of a small shop located in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles, but his investigation becomes even more personal when the person he holds most dear is taken and Bosch must travel to Hong Kong during the city's Hungry Ghosts festival to recover what he has lost.
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller agrees to work for the prosecution and teams up with Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch to convict Jason Jessup, who spent twenty-four years in jail for the murders of children and was recently exonerated by new DNA evidence and Mickey believes will kill again.
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Harry Bosch volume 22
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2017.
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Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
19) Fair warning
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Jack McEvoy volume 3
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[2020]
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English
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"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he...
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Bosch and rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Beginning with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveal that this shooting may have been anything but random.