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Dr Jay Charles Smith
No reader of this book will be more surprised than was the public by the truly bizarre beliefs and benthic depths of the evil (the Supreme Court’s repeated word, evil)…
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Joseph Wambaugh
Drunk and adrift in Orange County, California, forty-year-old ex-cop Winnie Farlowe attracts the attention of a three-time divorcee who introduces him to the mystery of her father’s death and leads…
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A prostitute, Missy Moonbeam, falls from the roof of the Wonderland Hotel, and in her diary is the phone number of Caltech, one of America’s finest scientific institutions. Cops from…
In the latest masterpiece from the father of the modern police novel, comedy, tragedy, and suspense intertwine in a Dickensian tale set in Hollywood.
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Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents…
Originally published: New York: W. Morrow, 1993.
A.M. Valnikov is an embittered alcoholic Los Angeles cop. Natalie Zimmerman, an attractive and uncompromising policewoman, is given the job of pulling him together, and the ill-suited couple stumble into…
Homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking.
Wambaugh once again masterfully gets inside the hearts and minds of the cops whose jobs have them constantly on the brink of danger. Hollywood Moon is his most thrilling and…
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On June 25, 1979, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot. A massive FBI and state police investigation…
It’s the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty…
With the America’s Cup sailing regattas coming to San Diego, water cops Mickey Fortney and his partner, Leeds, have their hands full with international yacht fans, tourists, con artists, and…
All that lives in the desert around Mineral Springs are lizards, motorcycle gangs and drug addicts. So it is odd to find a corpse in a burned-out Rolls Royce. Homicide…
Joseph Wambaugh, master of the modern police novel (Michael Connelly) and author of the bestsellers Hollywood Station and Hollywood Moon, is back with another gripping novel about the LAPD.
Presents the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross when a routine traffic stop leads to a bizarre execution in a…
The classic novel of the LA Police
Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times -bestselling author and master of the modern police novel (Michael Connelly), returns with another gripping story in his bestselling Hollywood Station series.
A true story of ten San Diego cops, the Border Alien Robbery Force - their mission, to stalk the ruthless bandits who rob, rape and murder the thousands of illegal…
The New York Times blockbuster from the author of The Golden Orange and The Glitter Dome. Determined to make her way as a P.I., ex-police officer Breda Burrows proves her…
Los Angeles police detectives are swayed by the glamour of Hollywood in this thriller from the author of The Onion Field.
Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tightly plotted and darkly funny ride through Los Angeles’s epicentre with a cast of flawed cops and eccentric…
Fanchon Blake,Linden Gross
Although studies show that women are the answer to police excessive force, police departments didn’t exactly welcome them. Fanchon Blake changed all that with her landmark class action lawsuit.
