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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
2) City of fire
Author
Series
Lena Gamble thrillers volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Series
Gideon and Sirius novels volume 6
Publisher
Three Tails Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his K-9 partners investigate the disappearance of a retired US Marshal and her bomb-sniffing dog after a suspicious encounter.
Author
Series
Lena Gamble thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Detective Lena Gamble knows how to handle the hottest cases--do it fast and keep her head down because if it all goes south, the department won't hesitate to make a scapegoat out of her. So when she gets called to the scene of a double murder at Club 3 AM, the A-list hangout for Hollywood celebs, she knows the fun is only beginning. And she's not wrong. It's just much worse than that.
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Jim McGann goes out for his morning jog, he finds a car blocking his driveway. It's no ordinary car, though. It's a cop car and in the trunk is the naked, mutilated body of police officer Alexandra Williams. For the LAPD brass, it's an unmitigated nightmare they're determined to clean up fast and keep from the public. For Mike Turner, the investigator for Internal Affairs who's assigned the case , it's...
Author
Series
Detective Matt Jones novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On Detective Matt Jones's first night working Homicide in LA, he's called to investigate a particularly violent murder case: a man has been gunned down in a parking lot off Hollywood Boulevard, his bullet-riddled body immediately pegged as the work of a serial robber who has been haunting the Strip for months. Driven by the grisliness of the killing, Jones and his hot-tempered partner, Denny Cabrera, jump headfirst into the investigation. But as Jones...
Author
Series
Detective Tully Jarsdel mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A body so badly burned that it could be mistaken for a movie prop... except for the smell. That's not something the LAPD finds lying on the street every day. And when Detective Tully Jarsdel is called to the scene, it's clear to him that something about the placement of the corpse is intentional, even ritualistic. Jarsdel's former career in academia seems to finally be coming in handy, rather than serving merely as material for jokes from his partner,...
10) Gideon's rescue
Author
Series
Gideon and Sirius novels volume 4
Publisher
Three tails Press
Pub. Date
℗2018.
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, walked through fire to catch an infamous serial killer, and Gideon is still paying the price with his PTSD fire dreams. To assist the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, Gideon has agreed to monthly prison visits with Ellis Haines, aka the Weatherman. This time, a homicide case the FBI wants Haines to analyze sparks a chilling discovery: A new serial killer has struck, and he's...
Author
Series
Gideon and Sirius novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.'s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon's K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home--only to discover her owner is missing. Heather Moreland has clearly disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and the more Gideon digs into her past, the more he's convinced of her abduction. As Gideon strives to help the missing...
Author
Series
Gideon and Sirius novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As the sole members of LAPD's Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles's standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange -- it might be out of this world. Ronald "Wrong" Pauley is a homeless man long fallen from grace. When Pauley's late-night drinking is interrupted by a detonation of light, he sees what he describes as a "being of light" in...
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