Voici une nouvelle enquête d'Harry Bosch, l'enquêteur le plus assermenté de tout Hollywood. Plongez en VO dans cet incroyable thriller. Pour vous aider, des traductions en marge vous permettront de bien comprendre le texte original.
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Le meurtre de la photojournaliste danoise Anneke Jespersen, lors des émeutes de Los Angeles en 1992, n'a jamais été résolu. C'est Harry Bosch lui-même qui avait pu faire les premières constatations la nuit du meurtre, une nuit où la police avait très peu de temps, dans une ville à feu et à sang.Or c'est encore lui qui pourra reprendre l'enquête, exactement 20 ans après les faits. Et Harry, toujours aussi tenace, ne lâchera pas avant d'avoir identifié le meurtrier. Après tout, c'est comme dans les catastrophes aériennes, il doit bien y avoir une « boîte noire » qui vous permette de remonter le temps et vous donne un point de départ...
Niveau faux débutantsCe roman policier inédit de Michael Connelly a été sélectionné par Publishers Weekly comme l'un des meilleurs livres de l'année 2012. Il n'a pas encore été traduit en français.
LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret that was meant to be snuffed out? Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, J.J. Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
@2@@20@A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of @18@The Poet@19@, from the global bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and BRASS VERDICT.@21@@3@@2@Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour - a Pulitzer Prize.@3@@2@Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a serial killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar.@3@@2@Jack is soon off on the crime beat and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming . . .@3@
@2@@20@Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor's killer. An unputdownable story from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author.@21@@3@@2@'Blood Work' - that's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is keeping him alive. Then a newspaper report of his brush with death brings him an unwanted visitor. Graciela Rivers reveals to McCaleb that the anonymous donor of his heart was her murdered sister, and that the police investigation into the case is going nowhere. McCaleb feels he has no choice but to take on the investigation.@3@@2@Nothing about the seemingly random killing makes sense. McCaleb realises that someone is watching his every move - someone who has killed before and will kill again...@3@
When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church - the 'Dollmaker' - the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers.
But four years later, Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse, Bosch has just received a note, eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with, giving him a location where a body can be found.
Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer, determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats and destroy Bosch's career in the process?
CRIME NEVER SLEEPS. 'CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST MYSTERY/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR * * * * * Detective Renee Ballard works 'The Late Show', the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD. It's thankless work for a once-promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime. Some nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet. Two shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects. Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn't know - yet - is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past... The Late Show will keep you up all night: it's time to meet Detective Renee Ballard. * * * * * 'The new novel from America's greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you and keep you reading until the small hours' Daily Express 'It has been more than ten years since Connelly, one of the world's greatest crime writers, last launched a major new character. Superb storytelling - this cements Connelly's place at the very top of the crime-writing tree' Daily Mail 'Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine' Sunday Mirror 'Connelly achieves an enormous amount in these pages: he creates a new character who immediately leaps into life; and controls a complex, fast-paced plot full of surprises' Evening Standard ' The Late Show introduces a terrific female character: Detective Renee Ballard. The pacing is breathless ... Ballard has astonishing resourcefulness and bravery - she is complicated and driven' New York Times 'Although the usual Connelly fingerprints are in evidence here - the real achievement is the creation of his tenacious heroine, Ballard' Guardian 'Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone - an absorbing character on her own terms. Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets' Irish Times 'A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption' Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the Week) 'First there was Detective Harry Bosch, then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, and now comes Renee Ballard, ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in 10 years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists' Irish Independent
Heading home after winning his latest case, defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - is pulled over by the police. They open the trunk of his car to find the body of a former client.
@2@'Death is my beat.' Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of The Poet, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist: @3@@2@'On the day I arrived in Los Angeles I sat in the newspaper editor's office being interviewed for a job on the crime beat. The day before there had been a bank heist in which the thieves had gone into the city's labyrinthine storm water tunnel system to get beneath the bank before tunnelling upward.' Years later that story would become The Black Echo. @3@@2@'Moments. They kept coming. One morning an editor called me and told me to swing by a murder scene on my way to the office. Just like that, like I was picking up a coffee on the way to work. The murder was on Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills. I went as instructed and got the story. I also got the place where I would put the home of the fictional detective [Harry Bosch] I had secretly begun writing about . . .' The cops, the killers, the cases - it's all here in a collection that is a MUST for Connelly fans.@3@
Livre en deux volumes de 300 pages environ. Mickey Haller est avocat à la défense et dans cette affaire il va devoir défendre l'indéfendable, car celle que l'on a retrouvée morte est une prostituée que Mickey connaissait bien et qu'il était persuadé d'avoir aidé à cesser ses activités. Découvrir qu'elle lui a menti est un choc dont il n'avait pas besoin au moment où il encaisse un échec à l'élection au poste de procureur, et où sa vie personnelle part à veau l'eau. De plus des représentants de la loi n'aiment pas qu'on fouille dans leurs affaires, et la pression va vite monter. Biographie de l'auteur Auteur, entre autres romans, de Deuil interdit, Le Poète , Créance de sang, Echo Park et La Défense Lincoln , Michael Connelly a reçu tous les plus grands prix du roman policier. Il vit en Floride avec sa femme et sa fille. Traduit de l'anglais par Robert Pépin
Mickey Haller est avocat à la défense et dans cette affaire il va devoir défendre l'indéfendable, car celle que l'on a retrouvée morte est une prostituée que Mickey connaissait bien et qu'il était persuadé d'avoir aidé à cesser ses activités. Découvrir qu'elle lui a menti est un choc dont il n'avait pas besoin au moment où il encaisse un échec à l'élection au poste de procureur, et où sa vie personnelle part à veau l'eau. De plus des représentants de la loi n'aiment pas qu'on fouille dans leurs affaires, et la pression va vite monter. Biographie de l'auteur Auteur, entre autres romans, de Deuil interdit, Le Poète , Créance de sang, Echo Park et La Défense Lincoln , Michael Connelly a reçu tous les plus grands prix du roman policier. Il vit en Floride avec sa femme et sa fille. Traduit de l'anglais par Robert Pépin
