Michael Connelly
Two women have gone missing, and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch has a strong suspicion that an avid fisherman named Denninger is the culprit. Bosch needs something stronger than a suspicion to bring Denninger in, but all he has are a handful of photos—prior mug shots and pictures of Denninger...
In "Cahoots," a backroom poker game turns deadly when a cheater is exposed. In "Mulholland Dive," a man who deciphers the hidden codes of accident scenes investigates a fatality off L.A.'s most fabled roadway. In "Two-Bagger," an obsessed cop tails an ex-con he believes is about to carry out a contract killing.
Together these gripping,...
In this short work, Michael Connelly delves into the origins of his famed police detective,—how he faced down the horrors of his childhood (a background story that was based on the life of another renowned crime writer); his past as a tunnel rat in Vietnam; and why jazz is his soundtrack. Connelly also...
Like his father before him, Brian Holloway is a safe man. That is, his specialty is opening safes. Every job is a little mystery, and he has yet to encounter a lock he can't break or a box he can't crack. But the day Holloway gets called in to open a rare, antique safe in a famous author's library, his skills open a...
In Murder in Vegas, the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly have gathered twenty-two crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour.
Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its
14) Hieronymus Bosch
Harry Bosch se enfrenta a un juicio interpuesto por la familia de Norman Church. Años atrás, estando de servicio, Bosch mató a Church, a quien creía culpable de una serie de asesinatos. Todos los indicios indicaban que tras éste se ocultaba un asesino en serie apodado ?el Fabricante de Muñecas?, un hombre que maquillaba como muñecas a sus víctimas, la mayoría de ellas prostitutas. La viuda de Church sigue insistiendo en la inocencia del
...Wyrzucony z pracy w policji Los Angeles Harry Bosch pragnie odzyskać dobre imię. Na jego drodze staje groźna grupa przestępcza wyłudzająca leki psychotropowe na podstawie fałszywych recept. Detektyw musi stanąć do walki ze sprytnym zabójcą i przechytrzyć go, nim będzie za późno. Harry zajmuje się obecnie analizowaniem umorzonych i nierozwiązanych spraw dla komendy miasta San Fernando. Gdy w lokalnej aptece dochodzi do podwójnego
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