Livre en gros caractères - Corps 16
Une mécanique implacable... À la tête de l'unité des Affaires non résolues, Renée Ballard tente de retrouver un violeur en série qui a terrorisé Los Angeles deux décennies plus tôt avant de disparaître. Une affaire complexe et dangereuse qui va nécessiter l'aide de Harry Bosch, mais aussi de sa fille, Maddie, qui rejoint l'unité. Cette dernière dévoile des documents surprenants concernant le fait divers le plus emblématique du siècle dernier, celui du Dahlia noir.

Chroniqueur judiciaire, Jack McEvoy ne peut croire au suicide de son frère jumeau. Si Sean, inspecteur de police, s'est bien tiré une balle dans la bouche, que vient faire ce Hors de l'espace, hors du temps d'Edgar Allan Poe écrit sur le pare-brise de sa voiture ? Et pourquoi Rusher, un indic qu'il devait voir ce jour-là, reste-t-il introuvable ? En s'immisçant dans une base de données du FBI pour les besoins d'un article, McEvoy découvre avec stupéfaction que beaucoup de policiers se suicident et que le FBI mène l'enquête sur la mort de son frère. Il comprend alors que cette affaire est en passe de lui fournir son plus gros scoop sur des meurtres en série. Mais il pressent aussi qu'il est devenu la prochaine cible du suspect...
LE classique absolu pour les fans de romans policiers.

Un livre au suspense implacable qui [a placé] Connelly au même niveau que Raymond Chandler ou James Ellroy, et l'[a fait] connaître dans le monde entier. François Busnel, Lire.

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Défenseur attitré des chauffards, bikers et autres dealers, Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) est habile au prétoire mais méprisé par le barreau de Californie. Il passe sa vie dans sa Lincoln à traquer les petites affaires. Un jour, pourtant, il décroche le gros lot : un riche fils de famille (Ryan Philippe) fait appel à ses services. Mais l'excitation des débuts cède bientôt place à l'inquiétude. Haller s'aperçoit que cette « aubaine » pourrait bien lui coûter la vie.

Une nouvelle inspectrice à découvrir ! Reléguée au quart de nuit du commissariat d'Hollywood, l'inspectrice Renée Ballard se lance dans des enquêtes qu'elle n'a pas le droit de mener à leur terme. Le règlement l'oblige en effet à les confier aux inspecteurs de jour dès la fin de son service. Mais, une nuit, elle tombe sur deux affaires qu'elle refuse d'abandonner. En violation de toutes les règles et contre les désirs mêmes de son coéquipier, elle décide de travailler les deux dossiers de jour tout en honorant ses quarts de nuit. L'épuisement la gagne, ses démons la rattrapent et la hiérarchie s'acharne, mais Renée Ballard n'est pas du genre à se laisser marcher sur les pieds.

À présent inspecteur de réserve au San Fernando Police Department, Harry Bosch est contacté par un magnat de l'industrie aéronautique qui, sentant sa mort approcher, souhaite savoir s'il a un héritier. Dans sa jeunesse, le vieil homme a dû quitter sa petite amie sous la pression de sa famille. Aurait-elle eu un enfant de lui ? Cette question n'étant pas du goût du conseil d'administration avide de se partager le gâteau, Bosch est vite menacé. Pour corser le tout, ses collègues du commissariat ne parviennent pas à mettre la main sur un violeur en série particulièrement redoutable... Missions « haute tension »Un bon cru. En quelques pages, Connelly nous accroche. Catherine Balle, Aujourd'hui en France.Un polar d'une belle noirceur et d'excellente facture. Bruno Corty, Le Figaro littéraire.Traduit de l'anglais par Robert Pépin.
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A brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year''s Eve and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest, in the new thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestseller Michael Connelly. There''s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year''s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is linked to another unsolved murder - a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been terrorizing women and leaving no trace. Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like she is constantly running uphill in a police department indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. It is a department so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two inexorable detectives work together to find out where old and new cases intersect, they must constantly look over their shoulders. The brutal predators they are tracking are ready to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
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The Drop, un roman de Michael Connelly, vient enrichir la collection d'ouvrages contemporains Harrap's écrits par des auteurs à succès pour donner envie de lire en VO et ainsi d'entretenir son anglais, à l'aide de notes de bas de page traduisant les mots et expressions que le lecteur est susceptible de ne pas connaître.
Il reste trois ans à Harry Bosch avant qu'il ne soit obligé de prendre sa retraite de la Police de Los Angeles et il souhaite, plus que jamais, se voir confier de nouvelles affaires. En une matinée, on lui en donne deux.Un échantillon d'ADN retrouvé d'un viol datant de 1989 correspond à celui d'un jeune homme de 29 ans qui a depuis été condamné pour viol. A-t-il pu tuer alors qu'il était seulement âgé de 8 ans à l'époque, ou une grave erreur a-t-elle été commise par le Laboratoire régional de la police judiciaire ? Cette dernière éventualité pourrait compromettre toutes les affaires, actuellement en instance de jugement, basées sur des prélèvements d'ADN analysés par le Laboratoire.Bosch et son partenaire sont alors appelés sur une scène de crime chargée de tensions liées à des questions de politique interne. En effet, le fils du conseiller municipal Irvin Irving s'est, ou a été, défenestré au Château Marmont. Irving, qui souhaite, depuis de nombreuses années, mettre fin à la carrière policière de Bosch exige cependant que ce dernier mène l'enquête.Alors que Bosch travaille sans relâche sur les deux affaires, il fait deux découvertes effrayantes : un tueur inconnu qui sévit en ville depuis au moins une trentaine d'années et une conspiration politique qui remonte à une époque sombre dans l'histoire du service de police.

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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. McEvoy 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. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect. As he races to clear his name, McEvoy's findings point to a serial killer working under the radar of law enforcement for years, and using personal data shared by the victims themselves to select and hunt his targets. Called "the finest American crime writer of his generation" ( The Times ) Michael Connelly once again delivers an unputdownable thriller that reveals a predator operating from the darkest corners of human nature - and one man courageous and determined enough to stand in his way.
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@2@@20@Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor's killer. An unputdownable story from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author.@21@@3@@2@'Blood Work' - that's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is keeping him alive. Then a newspaper report of his brush with death brings him an unwanted visitor. Graciela Rivers reveals to McCaleb that the anonymous donor of his heart was her murdered sister, and that the police investigation into the case is going nowhere. McCaleb feels he has no choice but to take on the investigation.@3@@2@Nothing about the seemingly random killing makes sense. McCaleb realises that someone is watching his every move - someone who has killed before and will kill again...@3@
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@2@@20@After three years as a PI, Harry Bosch returns to the LAPD. The superb page-turning eleventh Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. @21@@3@@2@Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed race girl. @3@@2@The police department has changed, but one thing hasn't - Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a 'retread'. He watches from the sidelines like an injured bear, hoping Harry will make a mistake . . .@3@ Lire la suite Fermer

''Connelly excels - easily surpassing even John Grisham in the building of courtroom suspense'' LOS ANGELES TIMES In tough times, crime still pays. For defense attorney Mickey Haller - a.k.a. The Lincoln Lawyer - most of his time is now spent not keeping people out of jail, but in their homes.

Lisa Trammel was Mickey''s first foreclosure client. For eight months, he''s stopped the bank from taking her house. But when the bank''s CEO is found beaten to death, Lisa is the prime suspect.

As Haller steps back into the theatre of a murder trial, he will learn some shocking truths about the victim, his client, and himself.

Mickey prepares to mount the best defense of his career - but this is a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in . . .

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Chercheur surdoué en informatique moléculaire, Henry Pierce est en train de se séparer de sa petite amie, Nicole. Il prend un nouvel appartement et un nouveau numéro de téléphone, mais les premiers coups de fil qu'il reçoit sont étranges. Tous émanent d'hommes qui veulent parler à Lilly, une hôtesse d'accompagnement répertoriée sur un site web à caractère pornographique. Intrigué, Henry Pierce commence à enquêter, mais ne peut entrer en contact avec cette Lilly qui lui cause tant d'ennuis. L'affaire prend un vilain tour lorsqu'il est tabassé et laissé pour mort par deux voyous. Qui est derrière cette histoire qui le replonge dans un passé qu'il a tout fait pour oublier ? Mais surtout... pourquoi lui en veut-on pareillement ?

@2@@20@Award-winning No.1 bestselling author Michael Connelly's ninth Bosch book. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch has retired from the Los Angeles Police Department - but the discovery of a startling unsolved murder among his old case files means he cannot rest until he finds the killer. @21@@3@@2@When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a movie set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal, and when Bosch decides to reinvestigate, he quickly falls foul of both his old colleagues and the FBI. @3@@2@When the private investigation enables him to meet up with an old friend, shadows from his past come back to haunt him . . .@3@
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@2@@20@The fifth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. The murder of a Hollywood producer has all the signs of a mob hit but something doesn't add up for Harry Bosch. Featured in Series 2 of BOSCH on Amazon Prime@21@@3@@2@Harry Bosch is back at the LAPD in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. @3@@2@In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls-Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - the execution style of the Mafia where the victim is shot in his own vehicle - but the victim is LA movie producer Tony Aliso, and the mob weren't the only ones after him.@3@@2@ Bosch finds himself up against the FBI - and back in the arms of a beautiful ex-felon. It's starting to look like Harry's first case back in Homicide is in danger of being his last . . .@3@
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Harry Bosch Nr. 20, 2017, noch ô dt.

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him - new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. 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 book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
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He's back . . . Private investigator Harry Bosch confronts a villain who's long been in hiding - a fiend known as The Poet. Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her. Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a new father. He gets a call, too, from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. This fact alone makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious. And Harry Bosch is heading straight into the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered. . .
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An execution on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam entangles Bosch with FBI Agent Rachel Walling and Homeland Security. The brilliant thirteenth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. 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. And when it's discovered that the victim turned over a quantity of a lethal chemical to his killer before he died, Harry knows he has more than just a single death to worry about. Alongside the forces of Homeland Security, Harry realises he must solve the murder or face unimaginable consequences. Lire la suite Fermer