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In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean about other murders, including the killing of Marie Gesto.

Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drugstore 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 pill mills and prescription drug abuse.

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.

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills - and unearths a murder committed more than 20 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 past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart - or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar.

Like his father before him, Brian Holloway is a safe man. That is, his specialty is opening safes. Every job is a little mystery, and he has yet to encounter a lock he can't break or a box he can't crack. But the day Holloway gets called in to open a rare, antique safe in a famous author's library, his skills open a door that should have remained closed.

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. Jack 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. Undetected by law enforcement, a vicious killer has been hunting women, using genetic data to select and stalk his targets.

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.

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 ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue.

Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends, and, of course, the killers, to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.

Jack McEvoy es un periodista especializado en crímenes. Su hermano, policía de homicidos, aparentemente se ha suicidado. Cuando se decide a escribir sobre el asunto, descubre el rastro de El Poeta, un asesino en serie que ha dejado junto a sus ocho víctimas, todas ellas policías, falsas notas de suicidio con versos de Edgar Allan Poe. Su descubrimiento hace que intervenga el FBI. Una de las agentes, Rachel Walling, personaje habitual en las Novelas de Michael Connelly, desempeña un papel fundamental en la investigación, aunque finalmente el asesino consiga escapar.

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.

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, 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?

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.

Harry Bosch steht vor Gericht. Vor vier Jahren hat er den berüchtigten "Puppenmacher" Norman Church erschossen, der seine Opfer - stets Frauen - brutal hinrichtete, um sie anschließend mit Make-up zu verschönern. Doch dann wird in einem abgebrannten Gebäude eine Frauenleiche gefunden. Und alles deutet darauf hin, dass auch dieser Mord die Tat des Puppenmachers war.

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.

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.

Un productor de Hollywood aparece muerto dentro del maletero de su coche. Parece que la mafía está detrás del asunto. Harry Bosch lleva dieciocho meses sin investigar un homicidio: ha sido apartado temporalmente del cuerpo. Junto con Jerry Edgar y Kiz Rider forma un equipo de tres detectives. El primer caso al que se enfrentan es el asesinato de Tony Aliso, productor de películas porno en Hollywood, encontrado muerto en el maletero de su Rolls Royce.

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".

Da quando Harry Bosch ha lasciato il dipartimento di polizia di Los Angeles, si occupa di "casi freddi" per la polizia di San Fernando, piccola municipalità della città. E gli va bene così. Finché il suo nuovo capo gli chiede una mano per un caso che di "freddo" ha ben poco, e nel frattempo il fantasma del LAPD torna a fargli visita nelle vesti di Preston Borders, omicida e stupratore che trent'anni prima Bosch aveva assicurato al braccio della morte.