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È il suo processo più importante: quello in cui l'imputato è lui. Ma in un'aula di tribunale anche l'innocenza può essere un crimine. È una sera di ottobre a Los Angeles, e Mickey Haller, a bordo della sua Lincoln, si allontana dal bar dove ha offerto da bere a un nutrito gruppo di colleghi per festeggiare la vittoria in un processo. Quando una volante della polizia gli fa segno di accostare, Haller è tranquillo: lui non ha bevuto neanche un goccio, come ormai da molti anni. Ma non è per questo che l'agente Milton l'ha fermato.

"Per molto tempo, in passato, avevo detto che la morte era il mio mestiere. Adesso sapevo che lo era ancora." Per Jack McEvoy la cronaca nera è stato il mestiere di una vita. Ha raccontato le storie più cupe, inseguito i killer più sfuggenti, fino a ritrovarsi lui stesso faccia a faccia con la morte. Il fiuto da reporter ce l'ha nel sangue, anche se ormai va a caccia di storie di ben altro genere. Ma la morte, a quanto pare, non ha chiuso i conti con lui.

McEvoy tombe dans le piège d'un terrible assassin. À cause de difficultés financières au Los Angeles Times, le journaliste Jack McEvoy va être licencié. Amer, il décide de partir en fanfare et commence un article qui, il en est sûr, devrait lui valoir le prix Pulitzer. Pourtant, l'affaire semble banale : Alonzo Winslow, un dealer de seize ans, est accusé de viol et de meurtre... et il a avoué. Mais Jack comprend vite que ces aveux pourraient bien avoir été extorqués à l'adolescent par une police désireuse d'améliorer ses statistiques.

La vida de Harry Bosh es un desastre. Su novia le ha abandonado, su casa se halla en un estado ruinoso tras haber sufrido los efectos de un terremoto, y él está bebiendo demasiado. Bosch se resiste a ver al médico asignado por la policía de Los Ángeles, pero finalmente acaba reconociendo que un hecho trágico del pasado continúa interfiriendo en su presente. En 1961, cuando tenía once años, su madre, una prostituta, fue brutalmente asesinada. El caso fue repentinamente cerrado y nadie fue inculpado por el crimen.

Otra atrapante historia con el detective Harry Bosch como protagonista. 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 que fuera su marido y su abogada alega tener pruebas que ofrecen una coartada a Church para uno de los asesinatos que en su día le imputaron.

Terry McCaleb's enforced quiet lifestyle on the island of Catalina is a far cry from the hectic excitement of his former role as an FBI profiler. However when small-time criminal Edward Gunn is found dead, McCaleb becomes embroiled in a disturbing and complex case leading him to cross the path of Harry Bosch. This infamous detective has always teetered on the brink of darkness in order to get inside the head of the killer. Is it possible he has stepped across that finely drawn line and embraced darkness?

Three stories, brought together in one edition, from 'crime-writing genius' Michael Connelly. In the title story, a fatal accident on Mulholland Drive turns out to be part of an ingenious plot - but is it too ingenious? In Two Bagger, a dedicated cop working for the Gang Intelligence Unit finally gets the payoff he's worked so hard for - but it's not what he's expecting. In Cahoots, a team of scam artists meet for a high-stakes poker game but who is scamming who?

Spiegel einer harten Realität. Harry Bosch wird kurz vor seiner Pensionierung, eine junge Partnerin zur Seite gestellt: Lucia Soto. Ein klassisches Team also (erfahrener Ermittler vs. Grünschnabel), das einen alten Fall neu aufrollen soll. Orlando, ein mexikanischer Mariachi-Musiker, ist in L.A. vor zehn Jahren bei einem Auftritt angeschossen worden und ist nun an den Spätfolgen verstorben. Damals vermutete man, dass er zufällig von einem Querschläger getroffen wurde.

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 realises 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.

Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was 12, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered with no one ever accused of the crime.

Hollywood vs. The Author is a collection of non-fiction anecdotes by authors who’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the development room firsthand - some who have successfully managed to straddle the two worlds, seeing their works morph into the kinds of feature films and TV shows that make them proud, and others who stepped blindsided into that room after selling their first or second novels. All the stories in this collection illustrate the great divide between the world of literature and the big or small screen.

Don't mess with Harry! Harry Bosch soll den Erben des Milliardärs Whitney Vance finden: Der alte Mann hatte als Student ein Verhältnis mit einer Mexikanerin, die er auf Druck seines Vaters verließ, als die junge Frau schwanger wurde. Ein Leben lang hat Vance sich dafür geschämt, nun will er Wiedergutmachung leisten. Kaum einer ist von dieser Entwicklung begeistert. Bosch ist klar, dass er mit äußerster Vorsicht vorgehen muss. Doch kaum hat er erste Erfolge erzielt, erfährt er vom plötzlichen Tod seines Auftraggebers. Für Harry Bosch bedeutet das: Jetzt erst recht!

Eigensinnig, gewissenhaft und tough. Harry Bosch ist in Rente gegangen und nicht mehr beim Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), aber sein Halbbruder, der Anwalt Mickey Haller, braucht die Hilfe des erfahrenen Ermittlers. Eine Frau ist im Schlafzimmer ihres Hauses brutal ermordet worden, und alle Indizien deuten auf einen von Hallers Klienten.

Spiegel einer harten Realität. Harry Bosch wird kurz vor seiner Pensionierung, eine junge Partnerin zur Seite gestellt: Lucia Soto. Ein klassisches Team also (erfahrener Ermittler vs. Grünschnabel), das einen alten Fall neu aufrollen soll. Orlando, ein mexikanischer Mariachi-Musiker, ist in L.A. vor zehn Jahren bei einem Auftritt angeschossen worden und nun an den Spätfolgen verstorben. Damals vermutete man, dass er zufällig von einem Querschläger getroffen wurde. Doch ganz so verirrt scheint die Kugel nicht gewesen zu sein.

Baseball! Suspense! Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. He has written 17 books, including 12 featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. His novels consistently debut at number-one on the New York Times best-seller list. His most recent is Echo Park, released in October 2006.

Four years ago, LAPD detective Harry Bosch was on a movie set, asking questions about the murder of a young production assistant, when an armored car arrived with $2 million cash for use in a heist scene. In a life-imitates-art firestorm, a gang of masked men converged on the delivery and robbed the armored car with guns blazing. The crime was never resolved, and the young woman's murder was in the stack of unsolved-case files Bosch carried home the night he left the LAPD.

An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive - and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous - that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive. The question is, did any have the guts?

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."

Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out but then checks into the case herself, and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger. Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch.

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes - and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too - from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep.