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Eve Ronin 2 Harry Bosch 23 MGM DVD Renée Ballard 4 Silver Screen historical mystery 1Rehder, William J.
Contents: Smitty's mistake -- Everybody likes Eddie -- Casper -- The Hole in the Ground Gang -- Insiders -- Shoot-out in North Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1552 REHSummary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Patterson, James
Summary: Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PATSummary: A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOWiehl, Lis W
Summary: New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl uses new research and first-hand interviews to tell the heart-pounding story of Charles Manson's horrific crimes, the painstaking investigation that followed, and the inspired prosecution that put him away.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 WIEEatwell, Piu Marie
Summary: Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing ominously in Leimert Park. An "unsightly object" is identified as the mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet from Massachusetts who had been lured west by the siren call of Hollywood. Her killer would never be found, but Short’s death would bring her the fame she had always sought....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 EATMann, William J.
Summary: Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, and the diverse cast that surrounded him before he was murdered in 1922-- including three beautiful, ambitious actresses, the ruthless founder of Paramount...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MANHobbs, Jeff
Summary: Traces the academic pursuits of four Los Angeles high school boys with very different backgrounds and resources who navigate challenges in class, race, expectations, cultural divides and luck to attend college.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 373.794 HOBSummary: The powerful crime drama featuring some of television's favorite characters continues for another gripping season of cases as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAJSummary: Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FACSummary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOOSummary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEHambly, Barbara
Summary: "1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint--even if her late husband's sister is one of the worst actresses she's ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn't work academically-minded Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz, a prison surrounded on all sides by the waters of San Francisco Bay, and disappeared. The fates of the three men have remained unknown to the present day. In this program, three scientists from the Netherlands employ 3D modeling technology to reconstruct the water currents of the day of the prison break in an attempt to uncover whether or not it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALCSummary: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOConnelly, 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 CONBugliosi, Vincent.
Summary: A best-selling account by the author of Helter Skelter outlines the main reasons O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, from the jury's makeup to the incompetence of the prosecutors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1532 BUGHumes, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 HUMSummary: "At work, L.A. Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a woman in charge. Got a suspect to grill, a case to crack, a murderer about to walk? Call Brenda in and watch the fireworks. But at home ... well, that's another story ... As a cop, Brenda takes on everytihing from a corpse that comes COD to a serial killer to Sharon Raydor, an internal affairs officer as tough as she is. As a civilian, Brenda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLOSummary: FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his mathematically gifted brother, Charlie, to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. Don is assisted by fellow agents Megan Reeves, David Sinclair, and Colby Granger, while Charlie finds insight and encouragement from a co-worker, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and Amita Ramnjuan, Charlie's former grad student.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: FBI agent Don Eppes couldn't be more different from his younger brother, Charlie, a brilliant math professor at a California university. Don deals in hard facts and evidence, Charlie thrives in a world of mathematical probability and equations. Don and Charlie often combine their areas of expertise to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006