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Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When an actor wearing the costume of Rambunctious Rabbit, the cherished mascot of Familyland and the entertainment conglomerate Lamaar Studios, is found murdered in the theme park, the executives are anxious to protect Familyland's cosy image. LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs are put on the case.
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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 a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Guy Kaffey thought his wealth could acquire anything- including the best security money can buy. When his family are gunned to death on their vast Butterfly Ranch estate, it's clear that he was tragically wrong. Lieutenant Peter Decker of the LAPD is given the task of piecing together what happened. From the start, he suspects an inside job and that the answer lies with Kaffey's fortune. The daunting scale of Kaffey's business empire produces no shortage...
4) Justice
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Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus volume 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Description
From New York Times bestseller and award-winning crime writer Faye Kellerman comes this dark and psychologically intense thriller - the eighth book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series. The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold ?killer...
5) Trunk music
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Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The discovery of the body of Tony Aliso, a minor player in the Hollywood film industry - in the trunk of a leased Rolls Royce - is the beginning of a case for Harry Bosch that'll take him from LA to the casinos and strip clubs of Las Vegas.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Description
SACRED AND PROFANE: The second book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series. Detective Peter Decker is enjoying a well-earned camping vacation-until Rina?s son Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight . . . Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by forensics as teenage girls-and for Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over. Throwing himself into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation:...
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Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Harry Bosch investigates the 20-year-old murder of a 12-year-old boy whose bones are unearthed in the Hollywood hills. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he will not be forgotten.
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Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog.
9) The overlook
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Series
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Harry Bosch is plunged into the dangerous world of international terrorism. When a physicist is murdered in LA it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city. Then it's discovered that the victim had turned over a quantity of lethal chemical to his killer.
10) The last coyote
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Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This crime thriller features Detective Harry Bosch. After more than 30 years, Harry resolves to reopen the murder investigation of his prostitute mother, and soon discovers that whoever had wanted his mother dead has the same fate in mind for him.
11) The closers
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Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2015
Description
After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns to find the department a different place from the one he left. He is assigned to the department's Open-Unsolved Unit with thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD's files. Working beside his former cop partner, Kiz Rider, they are the Closers.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
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A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless - Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter is the calling card the killer left behind.
13) The night fire
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Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, J.J. Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder...
14) Nine dragons
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When Detective Harry Bosch catches the case of a gunned-down liquor-store owner it looks like a slam-dunk. But in the last desperate seconds of his life, Mr Li left a clue to his assailant's identity. The clue leads Harry into the world of the Triads.
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Harry Bosch works cold cases, helping out the under-funded San Fernando Police Department. When a double murder at a local pharmacy is called in, Bosch is the most seasoned detective on the scene. But with experience come the ghosts of long-forgotten crimes. A death row inmate claims Bosch framed him, and that new DNA evidence proves it. The LAPD investigators say the case is watertight, leaving Bosch out in the wilderness to clear his name and keep...
16) Murder 101
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus have moved from the chaos of L. A. to upstate New York, to a quiet town that is home to elite colleges and pensioners. Semi-retired and faced with mundane call-outs at the Greenbury Police Department, Decker is becoming bored of life. So when he is called about a potential break-in at the local cemetery, he jumps at the opportunity to investigate. The Bergman crypt contains four intricately designed...
17) The black box
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When Harry Bosch finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley, he can't accept that he'll never bring her killer to justice. 20 years later, Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit, & suddenly the past comes back to haunt him.
18) The drop
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Publisher
ISIS Audio Books
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long!
19) I am death
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
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Seven days after being abducted, the body of a 20-year-old woman is found on a green patch of grass by the Los Angeles International Airport. She has been left with her limbs stretched out and spread apart, placing her in a five-point human star. The autopsy reveals that she has been tortured and murdered in a most bizarre way. But the surprises don't end there. This killer likes to play, and he left a note lodged inside his victim's throat. Detective...
20) Echo Park
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Series
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the Missing Persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case, but the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive.