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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman delivers a riveting thriller starring LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. Murder hits close to home as the brother-in-law of Decker's half-brother is found dead in a seedy hotel room. Missing from the scene is the dead man's 15 year-old-niece. Pete finds the girl in the last place anyone would think to look, and soon devastating family secrets emerge.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.
84) The clinic
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
When psychology professor Hope Devane is found stabbed to death, her life is unraveled to reveal secrets that lead to her demise.
85) Vigilante
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lita Mendez was a thorn in the LAPD's side. An aggressive police critic and gang activist, she'd filed countless complaints against the department. So when she's found dead in her home, Detective Scully and his partner Hitchens fear the worst: that there's a killer in their ranks. Outside the crime scene, Nixon Nash and his television crew have set up shop. Nash is the charismatic host of a hit reality show called "Vigilante TV," dedicated to beating...
86) Blood test
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker is vacationing with his girlfriend Rina's boys when they stumble upon a gruesome sight: the skeletons of two teenage girls. Throwing himself into the murder case, he launches a quest that pulls him deep into a nightmare he must make his own.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're a cop in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded criminals anywhere. When you're patrolling Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, neither a good reputation nor the lessons of scandals past will help you keep your cool, your sanity, or your life when things heat up. From their headquarters at Hollywood Station, these...
89) Harbor nocturne
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
v, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law amid the investigation of a horrifying human-trafficking ring. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed as the two are caught in the crosshairs of...
90) Last dance
Author
Series
Sam Carver volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A famous Russian ballerina is found dead in a downtown LA loft. No marks, no bruises. The suspects are many: spies, hit men, a gunrunner, and one of Hollywood's most powerful and mysterious film producers. Detective Sam Carver becomes entangled in a perilous reignited Cold War between Moscow and Washington. He chases leads from Europe to Africa. But Carver faces other demons, too. He is haunted by Dylan Cross, a killer who got away a year earlier....
91) City of fire
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Lena Gamble is the lead detective on a string of serial murders spreading through Hollywood's elite.
92) Never fear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen years ago, three women were killed, their bodies dumped in the wasteland of the L.A. River. The serial killer was never found, and the case was mysteriously closed. Now, all these years later, Detective Alex Delillo reopens the River Killer case to help solve her own brother's murder.Alex never knew she had a brother until she went to identify his body. He was found next to the river near Griffith Park, a single gunshot wound in his head....
93) Den of thieves
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Theatrical version, Unrated version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
94) Winter moon
Author
Language
English
Description
An eerie light proclaims the arrival of a mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins a desperate battle against something unknown--and unknowable. An ordinary morning erupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in a heartbeat. Fate will lead this family to an isolated Montana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worst nightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy, from which no one--living...
95) The black dahlia
Author
Language
English
Description
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Deputy district attorney Rachel Knight takes the case of a murdered homeless man, over the objections of potentially backstabbing rivals. With the help of Detective Bailey Keller, she finds a missing piece of the puzzle, and realizes that the case is connected to the vicious murder of a LAPD cop a year earlier. The primary suspect in that case had been acquitted, but now Rachel and Bailey are hot on the trail of new leads.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (690 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous balancing act. She faces antagonistic roadblocks, even from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Las Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in Manhatten, catapulting Decker and his wife, Rina, into a heart stopping maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe...only to touch down...
99) White sister
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home in one hour. Shane gets there; Alexa doesn't. In the middle of the night, he's called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive, where the African-American victim, who appears to be a Crip gangbanger, has been executed gangland style. Shockingly, the body is in Alexa's car and her gun is found nearby. But Alexa is missing. Shane's frantic investigation into his wife's...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (639 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At work, L.A. Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a woman in charge. Got a suspect to grill, a case to crack, a murderer about to walk? Call Brenda in and watch the fireworks. But at home, well, that's another story. Join the squad as Sanchez looks after an orphaned boy, Tao goes undercover as a biker dude, Provenza and Flynn date airline attendants (turns out one of them has a corpse in her bathtub), and Brenda finds her family Christmas rudely interrupted...