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LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family...

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the...

From Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post - 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.

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly An NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017 An Amazon Book of the Month Harry Bosch, exiled...

Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot . . . very fast. In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by...

Harry Bosch, detective de la Policía de Los Ángeles, ha sido siempre un solitario. Hijo de una prostituta asesinada, fue criado en orfanatos y quedó luego marcado por la dura experiencia de Vietnam. Ahora, un caso rutinario de muerte por sobredosis le devuelve a su pasado. La víctima, Billy Meadows, había servido en su misma unidad. Ambos eran "ratas de túnel", ambos combatieron en los túneles del Viet Cong y ambos habían experimentado el horror del "eco negro".

La vida de Harry Bosh es un desastre. Su novia le ha abandonado, su casa se halla en un estado ruinoso tras haber sufrido los efectos de un terremoto, y él está bebiendo demasiado. Bosch se resiste a ver al médico asignado por la policía de Los Ángeles, pero finalmente acaba reconociendo que un hecho trágico del pasado continúa interfiriendo en su presente. En 1961, cuando tenía once años, su madre, una prostituta, fue brutalmente asesinada. El caso fue repentinamente cerrado y nadie fue inculpado por el crimen.

In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's...

A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from? What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to make Harry Bosch a Vietnam vet tunnel rat? Why is Lee Child's Jack Reacher a drifter?

Harry Bosch steckt in Schwierigkeiten. Er hat sich an seinem Vorgesetzten vergriffen und ist bis auf Weiteres vom Dienst suspendiert. Die ihm auferlegte Psychotherapie hält er für Schwachsinn und wehrt sich zunächst dagegen. Doch dann muss er sich eingestehen, dass ihn schon lange etwas quält: der dreißig Jahre zurückliegende Mord an der Prostituierten Marjorie Lowe – seiner Mutter. Es wird Zeit, dass Bosch sich mit dieser traumatischen Erfahrung auseinandersetzt, endlich den Mörder seiner Mutter findet und ihn seiner gerechten Strafe zuführt.

Non è la notte a metterti in pericolo. È ciò che si nasconde nell'oscurità. È la sera di Capodanno del 2020, e a Hollywood è il caos. Tra la pandemia di Covid-19 e le violenze che hanno portato al movimento Black Lives Matter, la gente non vede l'ora di lasciarsi alle spalle l'anno appena trascorso. Il mondo è cambiato, e anche Renée Ballard ha bisogno di un nuovo inizio. Ma non è il momento di mollare.

Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a...

È il suo processo più importante: quello in cui l'imputato è lui. Ma in un'aula di tribunale anche l'innocenza può essere un crimine. È una sera di ottobre a Los Angeles, e Mickey Haller, a bordo della sua Lincoln, si allontana dal bar dove ha offerto da bere a un nutrito gruppo di colleghi per festeggiare la vittoria in un processo. Quando una volante della polizia gli fa segno di accostare, Haller è tranquillo: lui non ha bevuto neanche un goccio, come ormai da molti anni. Ma non è per questo che l'agente Milton l'ha fermato.

Suspense! Baseball! Here are two tales that combine both, written by master storytellers Michael Connelly and Elmore Leonard.

Harry Bosch, einst bei der Eliteeinheit des Morddezernats von Los Angeles, muss wieder ganz unten beim LAPD anfangen, nachdem er in vermeintlicher Notwehr einen Unbewaffneten erschossen hat. Viel Zeit sich zu grämen hat er nicht: Bei einem Routineeinsatz erkennt er in einem toten Junkie einen ehemaligen Kameraden aus dem Vietnamkrieg. Der Mann war wie Bosch eine der sogenannten "Tunnelratten", die die unterirdischen Tunnelsysteme des Vietcong auszuräuchern hatten. Hat sich Billy Meadows wirklich den goldenen Schuss gesetzt? Aber warum ist einer seiner Finger so seltsam gebrochen?

Nach internen Querelen wurde Detective Stilwell vom Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department nach Catalina Island versetzt. Eine kleine Pazifikinsel keine vierzig Kilometer vor L.A. – und doch eine völlig andere Welt. Bis er die Nachricht erhält, dass am Grund des Hafens eine Leiche gefunden wurde, in Plastiksäcke verpackt und mit einer Ankerkette beschwert. Niemand scheint die tote Frau zu kennen, niemand hat sie als vermisst gemeldet.

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and of...

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.

Otra atrapante historia con el detective Harry Bosch como protagonista. Todos los indicios indicaban que tras éste se ocultaba un asesino en serie apodado "el Fabricante de Muñecas", un hombre que maquillaba como muñecas a sus víctimas, la mayoría de ellas prostitutas. La viuda de Church sigue insistiendo en la inocencia del que fuera su marido y su abogada alega tener pruebas que ofrecen una coartada a Church para uno de los asesinatos que en su día le imputaron.