Keene, Carolyn
Summary: Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEEConnelly, Michael
Summary: There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the bullet is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONConnelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard returns to Hollywood Station from working the night beat. She finds a stranger rifling through old file cabinets-- 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. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CONHambly, Barbara
Summary: May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernst Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone - companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint - and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Emma and Kitty investigate, and after a shocking discovery, the lives on the line soon include their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMKadrey, Richard.
Summary: "Sandman Slim investigates Death's death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic. James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth and beyond. Now, he's come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death. Someone has tried to kill Death--ripping the heart right out of him--or rather the body he's inhabiting....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: "Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand - or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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Summary: "In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner... These women in the club... These women who won't stop asking questions... These women who got what they deserved... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M CONKellerman, Jonathan
Summary: "Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must uncover the connection between a brutally murdered psychologist and a victim they're unable to identify in this electrifying thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Two burly movers are heading back into Los Angeles from the dusty wasteland of Ojai when they hit a man--a naked man who appears out of nowhere. Master...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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Summary: LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis and brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware investigate a decades-unsolved case involving a rich and spoiled client, a mysterious birth mother and violent coincidences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: Peter Decker and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in Upstate New York, in the very woods where a man previously went missing. Meanwhile Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and Rina's foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two other children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Pushed to his emotional limit, Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Bruno Johnson struggles to hold his family together while immersed in his unrelenting career. His daughter, Olivia, is a teen mom to twin toddlers; her common-law husband, Derek Sams, is a thug; and one of their little boys has disappeared under his care. The overwhelming intensity demanded of Bruno on this personal level is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2021
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Summary: After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel with a checkered history. What Thalia wants from Alex are answers to unsettling questions --about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, victim selection. When Alex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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Summary: "Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alley behind an upscale hotel. He's spent the past twenty-eight hours ferrying around Bismarck Avila, a celebrity skateboard mogul who isn't going home any time soon. Suddenly the wind begins to speak to Skellig in the guttural accent of the Chechen torturer he shot through the eye in Yemen a decade ago: Troubletroubletrouble....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Summary: Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, is a city of the dead. Early one morning, the two of them find themselves in a neighborhood of pretty houses, pretty cars, and pretty people. The scene they encounter is anything but. A naked young man lies dead in the street, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Introducing Buddy Steel, LAPD homicide detective whose father, Burton Steel, sheriff in the town of Freedom, a nearby privileged community falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. Returning home, Buddy learns that a world-renowed broadcast minister's wife has gone missing. Following leads, Buddy finds a link to complex web of twisted families, con artists, corrupt public officials, violent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press, Inc. 2017
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Summary: "Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: Reggie is thrilled when he learns that his new office is in the same space where famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes used to ply his trade. However, when he starts to receive mysterious mail, written for Holmes, his excitement soon turns into intrigue. As Reggie's brother, Nigel, begins to investigate one of these letters, he inexplicably disappears. Now, Reggie must find his brother while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach; instead, he's a man on the road and on the run, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state's most prolific serial killer. His old partner, Juanell Dodson, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil's bargain? An internship at an LA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IDEPatterson, James
Summary: "Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find. They live behind such a high wall of security and image control that even world-renowned Private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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Summary: "Isaiah Quintabe has, against many odds, built a proper life for himself: a respected detective in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull (courtesy of his previous client). But something is wrong: the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago has sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: "A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2016