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Summary: "It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook," sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring that the hitter doesn't know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper on which he has written the names of the crooks in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALKellerman, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCrais, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRALochte, Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOCLevine, Laura
Summary: When Cryptessa Muldoon, a Hollywood has-been who spends her days making enemies with everyone on the street, is found murdered on Halloween night, Jaine Austen, to prove her own innocence, must unmask a killer among a neighborhood filled with suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY LEVLevine, Laura
Summary: When her abusive professional-matchmaker boss ends up dead, Jaine Austen is on the long list of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVCrais, Robert.
Summary: To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a wrong place wrong time encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRASummary: A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MURCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: Hired by Marilyn Monroe to listen to threatening phone calls from a movie studio that wants to fire her, private investigator Nate Heller discovers a conspiracy to murder the iconic star and faces a career-ending challenge when Monroe turns up dead. Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLConnelly, Michael
Summary: When an infamous serial killer known as the Poet reemerges, FBI agent Rachel Walling, long haunted by her unsuccessful efforts to bring him to justice, receives assistance from LAPD detective Harry Bosch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub./Hachette Book Group 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Connelly 2004Crais, Robert.
Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crais 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRAMosley, Walter.
Summary: The arrival of his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. "Useless" Grant, spells trouble for Paris Minton and his friend, Fearless Jones, as they become embroiled in a bizarre case involving mysterious women, desperate blackmail victims, cheating business partners,and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSConnelly, Michael
Summary: Weaving lines of poetry into his gruesome crimes, the serial killer known to millions as the Poet returns. Rachel Walling, the FBI agent who years earlier had tried to track him down, has not forgotten him, and neither has former LAPD detective Harry Bosch who receives a call from an old friend whose husband had recently died. Even though his death appeared natural, the man's ties to the hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CONChandler, Raymond
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChandler, Raymond
Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDClark, Carol Higgins.
Summary: At the height of the nine-day Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, sleuth Regan Reilly finds the festivities threatened by saboteurs and winds her way through a host of pilots, balloonists, tourists, and merchants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CLACrais, Robert.
Summary: Elvis Cole and partner Joe Pike search for 10-year-old Ben Chenier (son of attorney Lucy Chenier), who has disappeared without a trace while staying with Cole in Los Angeles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRAMosley, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSHallinan, Timothy.
Summary: "Junior Bender is a burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses when he was fourteen years old, he's never once been caught. But now Junior is being blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into taking on a new freelance job. Junior is to act as a private investigator on the set of the porn movie Trey's producing, which someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HALMosley, Walter.
Summary: Fearless and Paris search for Paris's con artist cousin Ulysses S. Grant in Los Angeles during the 1950's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: In a Los Angeles bar, "Easy" Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job, wonders how he'll pay his mortgage. DeWitt Albright, a quietly vicious white man, walks in and offers Easy good money if he'll find Daphne Monet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSChandler, Raymond
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHAChandler, Raymond
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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Summary: "Little Sister" appears in Philip Marlowe's office--pathetic, appealing but with something strangely phony about her, and Marlowe finds himself in the center of a succession of curious and violent happenings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1988