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Nach längerer unfreiwilliger Dienstpause darf Harry Bosch endlich wieder ermitteln und bekommt prompt einen besonders heiklen Fall auf den Tisch: Ein Pornofilmproduzent wurde ermordet in Hollywood aufgefunden, im Kofferraum eines weißen Rolls-Royce, zwei Kugeln stecken in seinem Kopf. Handelt es sich um einen Auftragsmord? Schnell wird klar, dass eine ganze Menge Geld im Spiel gewesen sein muss. Bosch folgt der Spur des Geldes bis nach Las Vegas,...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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Mitten in der Nacht an den Schauplatz eines Verbrechens gerufen zu werden, das ist Harry Bosch gewohnt. Doch als der Detective erfährt, wer das Opfer ist, weiß er: Das hier ist kein Routineeinsatz. Howard Elias liegt erschossen in der berühmten Standseilbahn von L. A.: Angels Flight. Der schwarze Staranwalt und Bürgerrechtler führte seit Jahren einen Kreuzzug gegen das LAPD, überhäufte Beamte mit Klagen wegen Amtsmissbrauchs, Polizeigewalt...
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Jack McEvoy ist Polizeireporter bei den Rocky Moun tain News in Denver. Als er vom Tod seines Zwillingsbruders Sean, Detective bei der Mordkommission, erfährt, gerät sein Leben vollkommen aus dem Gleichgewicht. Die Polizei geht von Selbstmord aus: Jacks Bruder soll sich in seinem Auto erschossen haben. Einen Abschiedsbrief habe er auch hinterlassen, auf der Windschutzscheibe: Out of space. Out of time. Ein Zitat von Edgar Allan Poe. Jack glaubt...
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Ein Drogenfahnder des Los Angeles Police Department liegt tot in einem heruntergekommenen Motel in Hollywood. Anscheinend hat sich Cal Moore selbst in den Kopf geschossen. Einen Abschiedsbrief gibt es auch. Doch Detective Harry Bosch hat Zweifel an der Selbstmordthese, und auch das Verhalten von Assistent Chief Irvin Irving, der ihn um jeden Preis aus der Sache heraushalten will, kommt Bosch seltsam vor. Cal Moore hatte zuletzt in einem Fall ermittelt,...
11) The Black Ice
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The "New York Times" bestselling author's second novel featuring LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is reissued for the first time in a decade. Harry investigates the case of a missing narcotics officer rumored to have been peddling a new drug called Black Ice. Martin's.
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Suspense! Baseball! Here are two tales that combine both, written by master storytellers Michael Connelly and Elmore Leonard.
In "Two Bagger," a pair of detectives follow a recently released felon who has been hired to make a hit at an LA Dodgers baseball game-and the suspenseful cat and mouse games begin.
In "Chickasaw Charlie Hoke," a retired professional baseball player is looking for employment and telling stories-but are the stories true?
These...
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From Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post frontier Civil War frontier, from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, these gripping stories trace the perils and occasional triumphs of lawmen and women who put themselves in harm's way to face down the bad guys. Some of them even walk the edge of becoming bad guys themselves.In T. Jefferson Parker's "Skinhead Central," an ex-cop and his wife find unexpected menace in the idyllic...
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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...
15) 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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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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The dust has settled after the murders of two local gangstersneither officially solved, but both settled as far as the street is concerned. Nonetheless, Schraft Street remains as lively, unruly, and occasionally dangerous as ever. Boss Jim Herlihy still owns his marginally successful gym and sports bar; unusually, he even has some financial cushion, thanks to publication of a couple of gritty detective stories. His girlfriend of nine months, rising...
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In this collection of seven original baseball short stories written by an all-star lineup of writers- each of whom understands the game's lore and tactical nuances, as well as its deep roots in American life- mystery and murder take the mound. Compiled by Otto Penzler- the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop and regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery, and suspense fiction- the...