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61) Suspect
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English
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"LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well. Nine months ago, a shocking assault by unidentified men killed his partner, Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty--until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who survived two tours in Afghanistan sniffing explosives before losing her handler, she has PTSD as bad as Scott's. They are each other's...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana, for Hollywood, she never imagines she'll cross paths with fellow Hoosier Carole Lombard. The only job Julie's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick, who is busy burning through directors, writers, and money as he films Gone with the Wind. When Lombard hires her as an assistant and invites her into the glamorous world she shares with...
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Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Private detective Elvis Cole frantically searches for Lucy Chenier's son Ben, as Lucy's wealthy ex-husband attempts to wrestle control of the investigation from him, his partner, Joe Pike, and LAPD Detective Carol Starkey. As the evidence mounts, it begins to look like Ben's disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis Cole's past.
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English
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Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat--known in LAPD slang as "the late show"--and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has...
69) Unzipped
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Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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When her most famous client, football star "Bomber" Bomstad, suddenly drops dead while making an unwanted pass, cocktail-waitress-turned-shrink Chrissy McMullen finds herself the target of Jack Rivera, a no-nonsense detective who is sure that the sexy psychotherapist has been up to some most unethical behavior.
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Series
Harry Bosch volume 22
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English
Description
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...
71) One hot mess
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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When LAPD lieutenant Jack Rivera's womanizing father comes calling, asking psychologist Christina McMullen to investigate a mysterious death that might haunt his campaign for president of the United States, Chrissy is soon investigating not one "accidental" death but two--until she stumbles upon a trail of bodies littering Senator Rivera's distinguished career. As she untangles a web of high-stakes lies, Chrissy believes that she's found the secret...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix has come to Los Angeles to assist with the investigation of the Midnight Man, a killer who comes for the parents but leaves the children alive. Something about this UNSUB--unknown subject--doesn't sit right with Caitlin and soon she realizes that within the heart of a killer lives a secret that mirrors her own past.
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Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The Los Angeles Police Department wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing the precious old film. If Valentino wants to save his find, he has only one choice: solve the murder within
...76) The Stork Club
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
78) Loving
Author
Series
Bailey Flanigan volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement,...