Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. The superb twelfth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author.
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff''s deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn''t add up, and a sheriff''s department intent on bringing a quick search for justice in the killing of one of its own.
The path to justice for both the lawyer and his investigator is fraught with danger from those who don''t want the case reopened. And they will stop at nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from uncovering what the deputy''s killing was really about.
A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badg
AS NIGHT FALLS, A KILLER COMES TO LIGHT... '' An authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly''s very best.'' THE TIMES On New Year''s Eve at the end of one of the hardest years in history, hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air in time-honoured LA tradition. But as the rain of lead comes down, a man is shot dead in the middle of a crowded street party. Detective Renee Ballard soon connects the bullet to an unsolved cold case last worked by legendary ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch . As they investigate where the old and new cases connect, a new crime shatters the night shift. The Midnight Men are a pair of violent predators who stalk the city during the dark hours, and will kill to keep their identities secret. In a police department shaken to the core by pandemic and protests, both cases have the power to save Ballard''s belief in the job - or take everything from her...
Voici une nouvelle enquête d'Harry Bosch, l'enquêteur le plus assermenté de tout Hollywood. Plongez en VO dans cet incroyable thriller. Pour vous aider, des traductions en marge vous permettront de bien comprendre le texte original.
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Le détective Bosch accompagné du détective Lucia Soto sont chargés de résoudre un assassinat qui se révèle politiquement sensible : un homme succombe à des complications suite à une balle perdue qu'il a reçue dix ans plus tôt dans la colonne vertébrale. Cette enquête va mener nos deux détectives sur une autre affaire non résolue, la mort de plusieurs enfants dans un incendie survenu il ya vingt ans.
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!
Le meurtre de la photojournaliste danoise Anneke Jespersen, lors des émeutes de Los Angeles en 1992, n'a jamais été résolu. C'est Harry Bosch lui-même qui avait pu faire les premières constatations la nuit du meurtre, une nuit où la police avait très peu de temps, dans une ville à feu et à sang.Or c'est encore lui qui pourra reprendre l'enquête, exactement 20 ans après les faits. Et Harry, toujours aussi tenace, ne lâchera pas avant d'avoir identifié le meurtrier. Après tout, c'est comme dans les catastrophes aériennes, il doit bien y avoir une « boîte noire » qui vous permette de remonter le temps et vous donne un point de départ...
Niveau faux débutantsCe roman policier inédit de Michael Connelly a été sélectionné par Publishers Weekly comme l'un des meilleurs livres de l'année 2012. Il n'a pas encore été traduit en français.
cunning, poetry-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another . . . An unputdownable thriller from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author.
Adult cover edition of Neil Gaiman's latest novel, with illustrations by Dave McKean. 'A captivating piece of work, light as fresh grave dirt, haunting as the inscription on a tombstone' Financial Times
LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret that was meant to be snuffed out? 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?
Detective Renée 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 detectiv
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 from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author.
After three years as a PI, Harry Bosch returns to the LAPD. Teaming with former partner Kizmin Rider, Harry is assigned to the Open-Unsolved team. The superb page-turning 11th Bosch novel from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author.
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 cri
The 2nd Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author. Harry Bosch investigates the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico
When the body of a Hollywood producer, the apparent victim of a mafia hit, is found in the trunk of a Rolls Royce, maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch follows a complex trail of gambling debts to Las Vegas, in a case that suddenly becomes personal.
When an infamous serial killer known as the Poet reemerges, FBI agent Rachel Walling, long haunted by her unsuccessful efforts to bring him to justice, receives assistance from LAPD detective Harry Bosch.
*PRE-ORDER NOW* HOW DO YOU FIND A KILLER WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU? Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he''s never been accused of being one himself. Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he''s a suspect in her murder. Maybe it''s because he doesn''t like being accused of a crime he didn''t commit. Or maybe it''s because the method of her murder is so chilling that he can''t get it out of his head. But as he uses his journalistic skills to open doors closed to the police, Jack walks a thin line between suspect and detective - between investigation and obsession - on the trail of a killer who knows his victims better than they know themselves... * * * * * CRIME DOESN''T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY. ''One of the very best writers working today in any genre'' Sunday Telegraph ''The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'' Ian Rankin ''Crime thriller writing of the highest order'' Guardian ''A superb natural storyteller'' Lee Child ''A master'' Stephen King ''A genius'' Independent on Sunday ''America''s greatest living crime writer'' Daily Express ''No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly'' Evening Standard
