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Sam Little, the FBI’s most prolific serial killer roamed free for five decades, murdering women at will. But in 2012 he came to the attention of Detective Mitzi Roberts and everything changed. This opportunistic killer had long stayed below law enforcement’s radar because of the victims he chose: Women from the fringe — drug users and sex workers paid little attention to by society. Murder Book Season 2: The Women Who Stopped Sam Little follows this Los Angeles Police Department cold case investigator's relentless hunt for Little across the country to capture and convict him with the ...

A body has been found on the overlook near Mulholland Drive. The victim, identified as Dr. Stanley Kent, has two bullet holes in the back of his head, from what looks like an execution-style shooting. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is called out to investigate. As soon as Bosch begins retracing Dr. Kent's steps, contradictions emerge. While Kent doesn't seem to have had ties to organized crime, he did have access to dangerous radioactive substances from just about every hospital in Los Angeles County.

An old case from his LAPD past threatens Bosch's reputation in a gripping new thriller. Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him.

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.

Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back.

May 1992, and after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives, homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets, murder just got a whole lot easier - and investigating them got a whole lot harder.

In elderhood, the health care system has a narrow view of how to provide care. It focuses on extending a patient's life at all costs, with an over-reliance on machines and procedures, instead of caring holistically for the person. Accordingly, many of us will likely spend our final weeks in long-term care facilities or an ICU. Dying at home, peacefully, and surrounded by family is almost impossible in our world—and our fear of death is a major contributor to this impossibility.

Pour sauver sa fille, Bosch s’enfonce dans le Hongkong des triades. Los Angeles, années 2000. Avec l’aide de l’équipe de l’" Asian Gang Unit " du LAPD, Bosch enquête sur l’assassinat d’un commerçant par un membre de la mafia locale. Il s’apprête à arrêter le suspect lorsqu’il apprend que sa fille Maddie, dont il ne connaît l’existence que depuis quelques années mais qui est devenue la prunelle de ses yeux, a disparu à Hongkong, où elle habite avec sa mère.

Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling readership and revenues, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low cost reporter just out of J-school who couldn't find the police station if it was right next store to the Times, which it is.

When a physicist is murdered in Los Angeles it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The 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 chemicals to his killer before he died, Harry Bosch knows he has more than just a single death to worry about.

Jillian Lauren set out to research a serial killer for her novel. Instead, she put one at the centre of her life. After an interview with LAPD detective Mitzi Roberts, Lauren became obsessed with murderer Samuel Little. Following months of exchanging letters with him in prison, Lauren finally got a face-to-face meeting. In the hundreds of hours of interviews that followed, Little confessed to dozens more killings for the first time. Lauren knew this harrowing relationship was taking its toll, both psychologically and legally - but she couldn't stop.

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. 13 years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto.

Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drugstore where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse.

The messages waiting for Henry Pierce when he plugs in his new phone clearly aren't intended for him. They indicate something has gone terribly wrong for a woman named Lilly. Pierce probes, investigates, and then tumbles through a hole, leaving behind a life driven by work to track down and help a woman he's never met. Connelly's latest is "a grabber from the beginning...utterly compelling."

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. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapist who was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman's son is found dead - fallen or pushed from a hotel window - and he insists on Bosch taking the case despite the two men's history of enmity.

Grand avocat de la défense, Mickey Haller est fort surpris lorsque le procureur du comté de Los Angeles lui demande de plaider pour l'accusation. Et l'affaire est importante : incarcéré depuis vingt-quatre ans pour le meurtre d'une fillette, Jason Jessup vient d'être libéré, le tribunal souhaitant une révision de son procès après un test ADN qui semble l'innocenter. Haller est persuadé que Jessup est coupable et prend Harry Bosch comme enquêteur.

Découvrez l'inspectrice Renée Ballard, la nouvelle héroïne de Michael Connelly. 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 : le tabassage d'un prostitué laissé pour mort dans un parking, et le meurtre d'une jeune femme lors d'une fusillade dans un night‑club.

Un trafic de drogue de grande ampleur et une vérité à deux visages. Travaillant toujours bénévolement aux affaires non résolues pour la police de San Fernando, Harry Bosch est appelé sur une scène de crime dans une pharmacie. Les deux employés, père et fils, viennent d'être assassinés par des tueurs à gages et toutes les pistes s'orientent vers un trafic de médicaments antidouleurs qui, pris inconsidérément, se transforment en véritables drogues.

Harry Bosch et Renée Ballard reviennent au cœur d’une enquête impossible. Le retour de la collaboration de ce duo mythique de détectives sous la plume du talentueux Michael Connelly !

Abandonnée par son mari, Lisa Trammel n'a soudain plus assez d'argent pour payer ses mensualités d'emprunt immobilier, et la Westland National Bank menace de saisir sa maison. Affolée, elle engage l'avocat Mickey Haller mais elle est si révoltée par les saisies liées à la crise des subprimes qu'elle manifeste souvent et violemment devant la banque au point de s'en voir interdire l'accès par la justice. Malheureusement pour Haller qui espérait gagner du temps en faisant traîner la procédure, le dossier se corse quand sa cliente est accusée du meurtre de Mitchell Bondurant, un cadre dirigeant de la Westland retrouvé mort dans le parking de son agence.