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2) L.A. requiem
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English
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“Terrific entertainment . . . A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout.”—Dean Koontz
The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to...
The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to...
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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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O.J. Simpson's sports agent and confidant describes his relationship with the football star, how he defended and lied for Simpson, and how Simpson confessed to him that he had killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
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2012
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English
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A collection of eleven stories exploring the slippage between fantasy and everyday life, the commingling of sexual love and violence, and the complexity of family life.
From the title story, which maps the friendship between two beautiful and mysteriously doomed young women in 1940s Los Angeles - Elizabeth Short, known as the 'Black Dahlia,' victim of a long-unsolved and particularly brutal murder, and her roommate Norma Jeane Baker, soon to become...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 20
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English
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The abduction of two art students turns out to have been faked, but the murder that follows is very real--Library journal.
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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In 1966, a mysterious assassin shoots Henry Stockton to death and leaves the scene without trace. A year later, a woman is found brutally murdered. Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi fits all the pieces together in a mosaic of guilt. But will the jury be persuaded the two crimes are connected?
12) Harper
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
13) Black Dahlia, Red Rose: the crime, corruption, and cover-up of America's greatest unsolved murder
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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English
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Melanie was kidnapped at the age of three. Six years later she is found wandering the streets of L.A. with blank eyes. What terrible secret keeps her from talking and telling people how they can fight the evil that is terrorizing not only Melanie, but everyone around her?
15) Fracture
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession. At his arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot D.A. who is getting ready to leave for a civil-law firm. He is told by everyone the case is open and shut....
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When Amy Price took a temporary design job at an Art Deco hotel in Los Angeles to help a friend, she had no idea the path it would lead her down. Before long, she would become manager of the Cecil Hotel, seeking to make it more welcoming and correct its notoriety, not helped by sitting at the foot of Skid Row, or the fact that since its opening in 1927, there had been any number of deaths by suicide, and residents such as serial killers Richard Ramirez...
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
Description
"El true crime del momento. El libro que rechaza la version oficial para contar la verdadera historia de Charles Manson y de los asesinatos perpetrados por su familia. Este libro sigue los veinte anos de investigacion de Tom O'Neill para refutar la historia "oficial" detras de Manson. ¿Quienes eran sus verdaderos amigos en Hollywood y hasta donde llegarian para ocultar las relaciones entre ellos? ¿Por que la policia no actuo en muchas de las ocasiones...
18) Black Dahlia
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NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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On January 15, 1947, a woman was walking with her daughter in a Los Angeles neighborhood. She passed what looked to be a discarded manikin. It turned out to be the body of Elizabeth Short: posed, drained of blood, meticulously scrubbed, and cut in two. From this point, Geary reconstitutes and reveals for us the life of this 22-year-old woman who had become known as "Black Dahlia" because of her striking appearance. How could her life have ended in...
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
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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