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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PRE-ORDER THE NEW THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MICHAEL CONNELLY

Los Angeles County Sheriff''s Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland.

But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case.

Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.

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CRIME DOESN''T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:

''The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation''
IAN RANKIN

''The best mystery writer in the world''
GQ

''A superb natural storyteller''
LEE CHILD

''A master''
STEPHEN KING

''America''s greatest living crime writer''
DAILY EXPRESS

''One of the great storytellers of crime fiction''
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@2@@20@A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of @18@The Poet@19@, from the global bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and BRASS VERDICT.@21@@3@@2@Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour - a Pulitzer Prize.@3@@2@Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a serial killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar.@3@@2@Jack is soon off on the crime beat and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming . . .@3@
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Go back to where it all began for LAPD detective Harry Bosch, star of Amazon Prime's Bosch , in his first case The Black Echo - a gripping, action-packed thriller. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call-out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, but the one new puncture wound amid the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced. To make matters worse, Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam, running against the VC and the fear they all used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before, so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice.
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At the end of a long, dark night Detectives Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the very first time. * * * * * Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch , working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway who was brutally murdered. He crossed paths with her devastated mother while working a previous case, and Daisy's story has seized hold of him. PRE-ORDER THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER CRIME THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER TODAY. * * * * * Critics agree, crime writing doesn't come better than Connelly: 'One of the world's greatest crime writers' Daily Mail 'A master of the genre' Stephen King 'Crime thriller writing of the highest order' Guardian 'A superb natural storyteller' Lee Child 'Harry Bosch: one of the finest minds in crime fiction' Evening Standard 'America's greatest living crime writer' Daily Express 'A crime writing genius' Independent on Sunday
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Harry Bosch Nr. 20, 2017, noch ô dt.

@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

@2@@20@A superb novel featuring both Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer and The Gods of Guilt. @21@@16@@20@@21@@16@Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems, but now he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer, Vincent, dies, and Haller gets an unexpected windfall: he inherits all Vincent's clients, putting his stalled career back on track at a stroke. @3@@2@Not only that, but Vincent had taken on a high-profile and potentially lucrative murder case. It'll be a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight - and if Mickey can win against the odds, he'll really be back in the big leagues. @3@@2@The only problem is the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to defend a client successfully who might just be planning to murder him.@3@ Lire la suite Fermer

@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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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

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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CRIME NEVER SLEEPS. 'CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST MYSTERY/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR * * * * * Detective Renee Ballard works 'The Late Show', the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD. It's thankless work for a once-promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime. Some nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet. Two shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects. Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn't know - yet - is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past... The Late Show will keep you up all night: it's time to meet Detective Renee Ballard. * * * * * 'The new novel from America's greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you and keep you reading until the small hours' Daily Express 'It has been more than ten years since Connelly, one of the world's greatest crime writers, last launched a major new character. Superb storytelling - this cements Connelly's place at the very top of the crime-writing tree' Daily Mail 'Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine' Sunday Mirror 'Connelly achieves an enormous amount in these pages: he creates a new character who immediately leaps into life; and controls a complex, fast-paced plot full of surprises' Evening Standard ' The Late Show introduces a terrific female character: Detective Renee Ballard. The pacing is breathless ... Ballard has astonishing resourcefulness and bravery - she is complicated and driven' New York Times 'Although the usual Connelly fingerprints are in evidence here - the real achievement is the creation of his tenacious heroine, Ballard' Guardian 'Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone - an absorbing character on her own terms. Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets' Irish Times 'A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption' Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the Week) 'First there was Detective Harry Bosch, then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, and now comes Renee Ballard, ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in 10 years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists' Irish Independent Lire la suite Fermer

THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE OF HIS LIFE. ONLY THIS TIME THE DEFENDANT IS HIMSELF. ''This is Connelly on top form . . . A terrific thriller'' Mail on Sunday ''Grabs you on the very first page and doesn''t let go'' The Times * * * * * Heading home after winning his latest case, defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - is pulled over by the police. They open the trunk of his car to find the body of a former client. Haller knows the law inside out. He will be charged with murder. He will have to build his case from behind bars. And the trial will be the trial of his life. Because Mickey Haller will defend himself in court. With watertight evidence stacked against him, Haller will need every trick in the book to prove he was framed. But a not-guilty verdict isn''t enough. In order to truly walk free, Haller knows he must find the real killer - that is the law of innocence... * * * * * ''Pick up this gripping book at your peril, especially if you have other things to do like working or sleeping.'' Express ''The so-called Lincoln Lawyer . . . turns in another dazzling courtroom performance'' New York Times Book Review * * * * * " The law of innocence is unwritten. It will not be found in a leather-bound code book. It will never be argued in a courtroom. In nature, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the law of innocence, for every man not guilty of a crime there is a man out there who is. And to prove true innocence the guilty man must be found and exposed to the world. " * * * * * CRIME DOESN''T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY. ''One of the very best writers working today'' Sunday Telegraph ''The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'' Ian Rankin ''A superb natural storyteller'' Lee Child ''A master'' Stephen King ''Crime thriller writing of the highest order'' Guardian ''America''s greatest living crime writer'' Daily Express ''A crime writing genius'' Independent on Sunday
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