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1) The drop
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.
2) The watchman
Author
Series
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
Joe Pike, a reclusive former Marine, police officer, and mercenary, is called upon to repay an old debt by guarding the rich, spoiled daughter of a California businessman, who has, for some unknown reason, become the target of a determined killer after being involved in a late night car accident.
Author
Series
Shane Scully novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An overheard remark at an engagement party leads LAPD detective Shane Scully to form a phony movie production company as a sting operation to expose a Mob plot to take over the film craft unions in Tinseltown.
4) The cottage
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coop Winslow, one of the last debonair bachelor actors, is forced to take in tenants when he finds himself broke with no prospects on the horizon, but in the midst of the chaos that arrives with Mark Friedman and Jimmy O'Connor, Coop finds friendship and a new chance at happiness.
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
7) Suspect
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Scott James is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partner's killer.
8) Vigilante
Author
Series
Shane Scully novels volume 11
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...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A group of actors, authors, and other Hollywood luminaries gather at the Pacific Palisades home of Max, a fifty-eight-year-old director, the day after the 2003 Academy Awards, where they watch films, eat, drink, make love, and ponder life and the war in Iraq from their unique perspective as inhabitants of a make-believe world.
Author
Series
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 10
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Elvis Cole enlists his partner and confidant Joe Pike, and Los Angeles police detective Carol Starkey in an increasingly dangerous search for the truth, when an unidentified man dies from a gunshot wound shortly after telling officers he is Cole's long-sought father.
11) Twisted
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor becomes obsessed with finding the killer of a young unidentified girl who was a victim of a drive-by shooting and teams up with grad student Isaac Gomez, who is convinced there is a connection between several unsolved murders.
12) Behind the seams
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Molly Pink and her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, are thrilled when one of their own gets a shot at the spotlight. But when a talk show set becomes a crime scene, Molly realizes that life in the entertainment biz can be deadly...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 29
Language
English
Description
"Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
16) Gated prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While on a sting operation in a gated, luxury enclave in Calabasas, detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, successfully catch home invaders but have unanswered questions in the latest novel of the series following Bone Canyon--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain...
18) Demolition angel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life after her partner and lover is killed in a bomb blast, but when she begins investigating a series of deadly bombing, old wounds are reopened and she is forced relive the events that ruined her life.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As a biracial orphan, Rika has never felt like she fully belonged to her family or the Little Tokyo community in LA, until she embarks on a fairy tale-like quest to discover if America's leading movie star could be her biological mother--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions-nothing unusual for two sisters bound in an incredibly toxic relationship. Our unnamed narrator has always been under the spell of the alluring and...
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