Тринадцать лет назад ушла из дома и не вернулась милая, тихая девушка Мари Жесто, и полиции так и не удалось ее найти. Тринадцать лет история этого исчезновения не дает покоя Гарри Босху. Он уверен: Мари убили, и с убийством как-то связан ее бойфренд – сын очень богатого и влиятельного человека. Однако юноша предоставил железное алиби. Но может, на этот раз Босх ошибается? Ведь недавно арестованный маньяк, на счету которого девять загубленных жизней, утверждает: была и десятая жертва – Мари Жесто. Он подробно рассказывает об обстоятельствах убийства и даже готов показать, где похоронил девушку. Дело закрыто? Босх так не считает. Он чувствует: убийца лжет. Но зачем?

Тринадцать лет назад ушла из дома и не вернулась милая, тихая девушка Мари Жесто, и полиции так и не удалось ее найти.Тринадцать лет история этого исчезновения не дает покоя Гарри Босху.Он уверен: Мари убили, и с убийством как-то связан ее бойфренд - сын очень богатого и влиятельного человека. Однако юноша предоставил железное алиби.Но может, на этот раз Босх ошибается? Ведь недавно арестованный маньяк, на счету которого девять загубленных жизней, утверждает: была и десятая жертва - Мари Жесто. Он подробно рассказывает об обстоятельствах убийства и даже готов показать, где похоронил девушку.Дело закрыто? Босх так не считает. Он чувствует: убийца лжет. Но зачем?

Two women have gone missing, and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch has a strong suspicion that an avid fisherman named Denninger is the culprit. Bosch needs something stronger than a suspicion to bring Denninger in, but all he has are a handful of photos — prior mug shots and pictures of Denninger posing with his prize fish. It’s not much to go on, and Bosch is running out of time, which is why he calls in FBI agent Rachel Walling. What she sees in these photos could blow his case wide open. The story was first published in the 2010 anthology Hook, Line & Sinister.

Death and nostalgia. Isn’t that what the holidays mean to you?

Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat — known in LAPD slang as “the late show” — and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.

Ballard can’t let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift — and she wants in.

The murder, unsolved, was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice. Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale” — a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.

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, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.

For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him — the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his “white whale” with the resources of the LAPD behind him.

First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit, and who could shutter it again — the victim was his sister. When Ballard gets a “cold hit” connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she has to pull Bosch off his own investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission.

Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he’s never been accused of being one himself.

Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he’s a suspect in her murder.

Maybe it’s because he doesn’t like being accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Or maybe it’s because the method of her murder is so chilling that he can’t get it out of his head.

But as he uses his journalistic skills to open doors closed to the police, Jack walks a thin line between suspect and detective — between investigation and obsession — on the trail of a killer who knows his victims better than they know themselves...

**Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller must defend himself against murder charges in the heart-stopping new thriller from #1 *New York Times * bestselling author Michael Connelly** **.**

**J. Michael “Mickey” Haller, Jr** is a Los Angeles-based defense attorney and the paternal half-brother of Harry Bosch.

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge.

Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles. All the while he needs to look over his shoulder—as an officer of the court he is an instant target, and he makes few friends when he reveals a corruption plot within the jail.

But the bigger plot is the one against him. Haller knows he’s been framed, whether by a new enemy or an old one. As his trusted team, including his half-brother, Harry Bosch, investigates, Haller must use all his skills in the courtroom to counter the damning evidence against him.

Even if he can obtain a not-guilty verdict, Mickey understands that it won’t be enough. In order to be truly exonerated, he must find out who really committed the murder and why. That is the law of innocence.

In his highest stakes case yet, the Lincoln Lawyer fights for his life and proves again why he is “a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch... in the front of the pack in the legal thriller game” ( *Los Angeles Times* ). **

What does it mean to be a father?

What does it mean to be a son?

What does it mean to be a man?

In Men From Boys seventeen masters of crime fiction answer these questions in a multitude of ways. Here are worlds that are instantly recognisable and believable, yet set widely apart. From a deprived London housing estate to the trenches of the First World War, from the claustrophobic confines of a late-night back room poker game to a rundown jazz joint in Manhattan, the writers address just what it means to be a man.

The characters who inhabit these stories strive to determine what is right, what will give them dignity, what will earn them self-respect. Some succeed, some fail: little is perfect.

Gathered together in this anthology are some of the very best names in contemporary crime writing, introduced and edited by John Harvey.

Tampa Bay joins Miami in representing the (alleged) Sunshine State in the Noir Series arena.

Bestselling novelist James Ellroy introduces this year’s collection of the finest mystery writing. Many of the contributors herein are novelists themselves, displaying their talents in short story form: Michael Connelly tells a fatal tale of revenge in “Two-Bagger.” In Joe Gores’s “Inscrutable,” the Feds beat the Mafia at their own game. Stuart Kaminsky demonstrates how horribly wrong things go when a robber gets cocky in “Sometimes Something Goes Wrong.” And Robert B. Parker shows just how important Jackie Robinson’s fans can be in “Harlem Nocturne.”

Also featured are veterans of the short story form and favorites of this series. Brendan DuBois’s “A Family Game” introduces a former Mafia family trying to lead a normal life in the Witness Protection Program. Joyce Carol Oates tells a chilling tale of a crush taken too far in “The High School Sweetheart.” A tenant sneaks into the murder crime scene next door in Michael Downs’s “Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs.” Readers will be captivated by all the stories herein, whether by famed novelists or masters of the short story.

A cut-and-dried case for a wily crime-scene reconstructionist is turned on its head in Michael Connelly’s “Mulholland Dive.” A terrible secret shared between two childhood friends resurfaces decades later as one of them lies on her deathbed in Alice Munro’s masterful “Child’s Play.” James Lee Burke tells the haunting tale of a Hurricane Katrina evacuee who unexpectedly finds comfort from an unimaginable loss in “Mist.” And in Holly Goddard Jones’s “Proof of God,” a young man’s car is repeatedly vandalized as proof that someone knows about the truths he’d never willingly reveal.

As Pelecanos notes in his introduction, the twenty “original and unique voices” in this collection pay homage to the genre’s forebears by taking crime fiction into a thrilling new direction. “But make no mistake,” he says, “we are all standing on the shoulders of writers who came before us and left an indelible mark on literature through craftsmanship, care, and the desire to leave something of worth behind.”

#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year.

There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, 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 deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is linked to another unsolved murder — a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been terrorizing women and leaving no trace.

Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like she is constantly running uphill in a police department indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. It is a department so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two inexorable detectives work together to find out where old and new cases intersect, they must constantly look over their shoulders. The brutal predators they are tracking are ready to kill to keep their secrets hidden.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can’t make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge.

Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the while looking over his shoulder — as an officer of the court he is an instant target.

Mickey knows he’s been framed. Now, with the help of his trusted team, including Harry Bosch, he has to figure out who has plotted to destroy his life and why. Then he has to go before a judge and jury and prove his innocence.

A judge murdered in a city park. Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, defends the man accused. A homeless person burned alive. Detective Renee Ballard catches the case on the LAPD’s notorious graveyard shift. An unsolved homicide from a lifetime ago. Harry Bosch is left a missing case file by his mentor who passed away.

He was the man who taught Bosch that everybody counts, or nobody counts.

Why did he keep the case all these years? To find the truth — or bury it? iIn LA, crime never sleeps. But in Ballard, Bosch and Haller: the fire always burns.

Will it light the way — or leave their lives in ashes?

Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town’s 3-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse.

Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch’s LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues aren’t keen to protect his reputation. He must fend for himself in clearing his name and keeping a clever killer in prison.

The two unrelated cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.

Микки Холлер – самый циничный адвокат Лос-Анджелеса.Его офис – заднее сиденье «линкольна».Его методы защиты, мягко говоря, нестандартны.Его клиенты – драчуны-байкеры и карточные шулеры, наркодилеры и пьяные водители. Для него закон не имеет никакого отношения к вине или невиновности. Надо просто уметь торговаться и нажимать нужные кнопки, а правосудие здесь и вовсе ни при чем!Но на сей раз Холлер намерен восстановить справедливость и покарать виновного. Потому что ему предстоит охота за убийцей, одной из жертв которого стал его лучший друг.И он подозревает, что однажды сам спас этого преступника от заслуженного возмездия…

Микки Холлер – адвокат по уголовным делам. Его офис – заднее сиденье «линкольна», в котором он путешествует между судами Лос-Анджелеса; клиенты – шулеры, драчуны, пьяные водители и тому подобная братия. Для циника Холлера, в общем-то, не важно, виновен или нет его подзащитный. Разве правосудие – не тот же торг? Но наконец в этой мутной водице Микки вылавливает крупную рыбу: плейбоя из Беверли-Хиллз, арестованного за нападение на женщину, которую тот снял в баре. По мере накопления улик Холлер приходит к выводу, что это, вероятно, самое легкое дело в его карьере. И жестоко ошибается. Теперь ему придется проявить недюжинную изобретательность, чтобы спасти собственную жизнь.

Роман открывает популярную серию о талантливом адвокате Микки Холлере, который берется за самые безнадежные дела. Пусть кто-то считает его беспринципным, зато его кредо: «Не допустить осуждения невиновного».

Микки Холлер – самый циничный адвокат Лос-Анджелеса.Его офис – заднее сиденье «линкольна».Его методы защиты, мягко говоря, нестандартны.Его клиенты – драчуны-байкеры и карточные шулеры, наркодилеры и пьяные водители. Для него закон не имеет никакого отношения к вине или невиновности. Надо просто уметь торговаться и нажимать нужные кнопки, а правосудие здесь и вовсе ни при чем!Но на сей раз Холлер намерен восстановить справедливость и покарать виновного. Потому что ему предстоит охота за убийцей, одной из жертв которого стал его лучший друг.И он подозревает, что однажды сам спас этого преступника от заслуженного возмездия…