Book Preview Monday, March 7 ONE T he morning air off the Mojave in late winter is as clean and crisp as you’ll ever breathe in Los Angeles County. It carries the taste of promise on it. When it starts blowing in like that I like to keep a window open in my office. There … Read more
Book Preview Fair Warning – Jack McEvoy Series 03 (2020) Connelly, Michael The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar – … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY MICHAEL CONNELLY Fiction The Black Echo The Black Ice The Concrete Blonde The Last Coyote The Poet Trunk Music Blood Work Angels Flight Void Moon A Darkness More Than Night City of Bones Chasing the Dime Lost Light The Narrows The Closers The Lincoln Lawyer Echo Park The Overlook The Brass … Read more
Book Preview CRITICS SING THE PRAISES OF MICHAEL CONNELLY’S THE POET “CHILLING. . . . THE POET RINGS TRUE. A good reporter is like a pit bull, never giving up the chase. And Jack hangs on to the bitter end, even when he becomes a target.” —San Francisco Examiner “PULSE POUNDING. . . . Connelly is one of those masters of … Read more
Book Preview Bosch arrived late and had to park on a cemetery lane far from the grave site. Careful not to step on anybody’s grave, he limped through two memorial sections, his cane sinking into the soft ground, until he saw the gathering for John Jack Thompson. It was standing room only around the old … Read more
Book Preview 1 The patrol officers had left the front door open. They thought they were doing her a favor, airing the place out. But that was a violation of crime scene protocol regarding evidence containment. Bugs could go in and out. Touch DNA could be disturbed by a breeze through the house. Odors were … Read more
Book Preview Two Kinds of Truth Number XXII of Harry Bosch Michael Connelly Little, Brown (2017) Rating: ** Tags: Mystery, Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Crime, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural Mysteryttt Fictionttt Thrillersttt Suspensettt Crimettt Mystery & Detectivettt Police Proceduralttt Hi, I am Travis McCrea and I am the founder of Ebook.Bike. First of all, thank … Read more
Book Preview They charged from the cover of the elephant grass toward the LZ, five of them swarming the slick on both sides, one among them yelling, “Go! Go! Go!”—as if each man needed to be prodded and reminded that these were the most dangerous seconds of their lives. The rotor wash bent the grass … Read more
Book Preview Ellis and Long were four car lengths behind the motorcycle on Ventura Boulevard. They were eastbound, coming up to the big curve where the road would turn south and head down through the pass into Hollywood. Ellis was behind the wheel, where he preferred to be, even though he was the senior partner … Read more
Book Preview 1 It seemed to Bosch to be a form of torture heaped upon torture. Corazon was hunched over the steel table, her bloody and gloved hands deep inside the gutted torso, working with forceps and a long-bladed instrument she called the “butter knife.” Corazon was not tall and she stood on her tiptoes … Read more
Book Preview By the third night the death count was rising so high and so quickly that many of the divisional homicide teams were pulled off the front lines of riot control and put into emergency rotations in South Central. Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, were pulled from Hollywood Division and assigned … Read more
Book Preview Christmas came once a month in the Open-Unsolved Unit. That was when the lieutenant made her way around the squad room like Santa Claus, parceling out the assignments like presents to the squad’s six detective teams. The cold hits were the lifeblood of the unit. The teams didn’t wait for callouts and fresh … Read more
Book Preview From across the aisle Harry Bosch looked into his partner’s cubicle and watched him conduct his daily ritual of straightening the corners on his stacks of files, clearing the paperwork from the center of his desk and finally placing his rinsed–out coffee cup in a desk drawer. Bosch checked his watch and saw … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY MICHAEL CONNELLY Fiction The Black Echo The Black Ice The Concrete Blonde The Last Coyote The Poet Trunk Music Blood Work Angels Flight Void Moon A Darkness More Than Night City of Bones Chasing the Dime Lost Light The Narrows The Closers The Lincoln Lawyer Echo Park Nonfiction Crime Beat ALSO … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY MICHAEL CONNELLY Fiction The Black Echo The Black Ice The Concrete Blonde The Last Coyote The Poet Trunk Music Blood Work Angels Flight Void Moon A Darkness More Than Night City of Bones Chasing the Dime Lost Light The Narrows The Closers The Lincoln Lawyer Nonfiction Crime Beat ALSO BY MICHAEL … Read more
Book Preview 1 W ITHIN THE PRACTICE and protocol of the Los Angeles Police Department a two-six call is the one that draws the most immediate response while striking the most fear behind the bulletproof vest. For it is a call that often has a career riding on it. The designation is derived from the … Read more
Book Preview All they did was trade one monster for another. Instead of a dragon they now have a snake. A giant snake that sleeps in the narrows and bides its time until the moment is right and it can open its jaws and swallow someone down. — JOHN KINSEY, father of a boy lost … Read more
Book Preview Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Special eBook Feature: … Read more