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  • Desert Star by Michael Connelly

    Desert Star by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    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.  Discover more thrilling Bosch mysteries in the original Freevee series Bosch: Legacy. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape...
  • The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly

    The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves.Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret...
  • Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the sixth volume of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard does something he has never done before -- he hires a young associate. Her name is Charleston Story, she is bright and beautiful, and in her very first case, she winds up inheriting an item so valuable that it threatens to destroy her and everything she cares about...
  • Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee's oldest town. The ransom note demands millions. In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing...
  • Injustice For All by Scott Pratt

    Injustice For All by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A criminal court judge is found hanging from a tree. A young employee of the district attorney's office goes missing. In this third book of the best selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself in the middle of two volatile mysteries. The primary suspect in the judge's murder is Dillard's son's best friend, and Dillard's wife may have destroyed evidence...
  • Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee...
  • A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni

    A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s thrilling series continues as Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is plunged into a case of family secrets and murder… “Another outstanding novel from one of the best crime writers in the business...
  • Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt

    Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney’s office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again—this time, accused of murder.Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case...
  • The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove

    The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dead...
  • Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn

    Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officials, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the Executive Mansion, and gained access by means of a violent massacre that has left dozens of innocent bystanders murdered...
  • Executive Power by Vince Flynn, Armand Schultz

    Executive Power by Vince Flynn, Armand Schultz

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown...
  • A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt

    A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room. The owner of her record company is charged with murder. In the seventh installment of Scott Pratt's bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to travel to Tennessee's capital city to defend Paul Milius, a record company baron accused of strangling Kasey Cartwright, his label's young star...
  • Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel, Tim Campbell

    Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel, Tim Campbell

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Listening Length: 12 hours and 18 minutesIntroducing an electrifying new voice in legal fiction--in a phenomenal thriller unlike anything you've read before...Debut author Sheldon Siegel bursts into the legal arena with a riveting courtroom drama, exposing the world of big-time law firms and lawyers in a sharp-witted, wonderfully sardonic page-turner of a novel.Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest...
  • The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

    The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime...
  • Close to Home by Robert Dugoni

    Close to Home by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s acclaimed series continues as Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy.While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base...
  • A Killer's Wife by Victor Methos

    A Killer's Wife by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Neon Lawyer comes a gripping thriller about a prosecutor confronted with the darkest part of her past and the worst fears for her future…Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley’s husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She’s finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She’s moving on...
  • Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly

    Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse...
  • In the Clearing by Robert Dugoni

    In the Clearing by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Listening Length 10 hours and 20 minutesDetective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime...
  • The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

    The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm.Eddie's not a man to be coerced into representing a guilty client, but the FBI have incriminating files on Eddie's wife, and if Eddie won't play ball, she'll pay the price...
  • The Crossing by Michael Connelly

    The Crossing by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup.Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense...
  • The Last Detective by Robert Crais

    The Last Detective by Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    P.I. Elvis Cole’s relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy vanishes without a trace. When the kidnappers call, it’s not for ransom, but for a promise to punish Cole for past sins he claims he didn’t commit...
  • The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    The Tracker by Chad Zunker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Trust no one.Sam Callahan learned this lesson from a childhood spent in abusive foster care, on the streets, and locked in juvie. With the past behind him and his future staked on law school, he is moonlighting as a political tracker, paid to hide in crowds and shadow candidates, recording their missteps for use by their opponents...
  • The Last Mile by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy

    The Last Mile by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Unabridged, 1 audiobook sound file (10 parts), 11 hours 42 minutes_______________Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime...
  • The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly

    The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty...
  • The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

    The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind...
  • Absolute Power by David Baldacci

    Absolute Power by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world's richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire's trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation's chief executive...
  • Trunk Music by Michael Connelly

    Trunk Music by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge. But his first case is a little more than he bargained for. It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit...
  • Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

    Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling...
  • A L'ombre Du Mal by Robert Crais, Hubert Tézenas

    A L'ombre Du Mal by Robert Crais, Hubert Tézenas

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Elvis Cole is Back--In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name... It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide...
  • Indigo Slam by Robert Crais

    Indigo Slam by Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole—until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes. Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find their missing father, Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a drama that began that night...
  • The Fallen by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy

    The Fallen by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Amos Decker is the Memory Man. Following a football-related head injury that altered his personality, Decker is now unable to forget even the smallest detail - as much a curse as it is a blessing. And in The Fallen, Decker's life might be about to change again....Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks...
  • The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly, Dick Hill

    The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions.The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims...
  • Divine Justice by David Baldacci

    Divine Justice by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    What's the central theme in "Divine Justice?"Oliver Stone is the most wanted man in America.No, not the maverick filmmaker Oliver Stone but the covert agent whose real name is John Carr. Men in the highest circles of power want him dead, and quickly, because he knows too many of their deepest secrets...
  • Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

    Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The serial killer isn't on trial.He's on the jury.It’s the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house – and to be sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn’t on trial. He’s on the jury.But there’s someone on his tail...
  • The Liar by Steve Cavanagh

    The Liar by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE...WHO IS DEADLIER ...Leonard Howell's worst nightmare has come true: his daughter Caroline has been kidnapped. Not content with relying on the cops, Howell calls the only man he trusts to get her back.... THE MAN WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH ...Eddie Flynn knows what it's like to lose a daughter and vows to bring Caroline home safe...
  • Where The Truth Lies by M.J. Lee

    Where The Truth Lies by M.J. Lee

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A killer in total control. A detective on the edge. A mystery that HAS to be solved. DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising young detective whose first case involved capturing a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he’s recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police...
  • The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly

    The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover...
  • The Narrows by Michael Connelly

    The Narrows by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend...
  • An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib

    An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionA preacher is found brutally murdered in a Tennessee motel room. A beautiful, mysterious young girl is accused. In this Mystery Readers International finalist for "Best Debut Mystery," criminal defense lawyer Joe Dillard has become jaded over the years as he's tried to balance his career against his conscience...
  • The Closers by Michael Connelly

    The Closers by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases. The murder of a 16 year old girl in 1988 is his first file. A DNA match makes the case very much alive again, and it turns out to be anything but cold...
  • The Guilty by David Baldacci

    The Guilty by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Will Robie is the government's most professional, disciplined, and lethal assassin. He infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies' advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores. But now, his skills have left him. Sent overseas on a critical assignment, he fails, unable to pull the trigger...
  • The Reversal by Michael Connelly

    The Reversal by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller finds himself recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder.After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means convicted killer Jason Jessup has been granted another trial. Haller takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch...
  • A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

    A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac...
  • Echo Park by Michael Connelly

    Echo Park by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket...
  • The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

    The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After the #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, and First Family, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind...
  • The Last Teacher by Alan Lee

    The Last Teacher by Alan Lee

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Mackenzie August is starting a new life. After a successful but destructive career as a high-profile California homicide detective, and then a less successful and even more destructive stint working for a church, he has moved to Virginia to start over as a teacher. The only thing he’s bringing with him is Kix, his infant baby boy...
  • The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly

    The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game...
  • Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

    Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only 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...
  • Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand...
  • Oddział 666 by David Baldacci

    Oddział 666 by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The #1 bestselling author of The Collectors and Simple Genius returns with STONE COLD...an unforgetable novel of revenge, conspiracy, and murder that brings a band of unlikely heroes face-to-face with their greatest threat. Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path...
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