Michael Connelly
21) FaceOff
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An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
24) Nueve dragones
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"Harry Bosch y su compañero Ignacio Ferras investigan el asesinato del señor Li, anciano propietario de Fortune Liquors, una tienda china de licores de Los Ángeles. Las cámaras de seguridad del local invalidan la teoría de atraco y dejan la puerta abierta a que el crimen esté relacionado con una posible extorsión por parte de la mafia china..."--Dust jacket cover.
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Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis Includes bibliographical...
26) Strach na wróble
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Polish
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Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
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"Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more! Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling,...
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"It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...
35) Noche sagrada
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Renée Ballard, que sigue trabajando en el turno de noche, regresa a la comisaría de Hollywood de madrugada y se encuentra a un desconocido hurgando en los viejos archivadores. El intruso es el detective retirado Harry Bosch, que está buscando pistas de un caso abierto que lo obsesiona. Ballard lo echa, pero luego revisa el expediente y siente una profunda empatía y rabia. Bosch está investigando la muerte de Daisy Clayton, una joven de quince...
37) Upadek
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LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.