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Entrée en scène de Mickey Haller, le demi-frère de Bosch, un avocat de la défense sans scrupule mais tout aussi impliqué et talentueux que son frère.
Depuis l'arrière de sa Lincoln, Mickey Haller est un avocat qui défend essentiellement les bikers, petits dealers et autres loosers. Très habile au prétoire mais surtout sans états d'âme ou presque, il est méprisé du Barreau de Californie, qui le surveille de près. Il vivote ainsi sans grands moyens lorsqu'un riche fils de famille accusé de meurtre fait appel à ses services. Enfin un cas qui sort du lot, et un client, innocent, qui pourra le payer ! Haller est ravi, mais l'affaire, qui semblait pourtant pliée, s'avère nettement plus compliquée. Et l'avocat doute rapidement de l'innocence dudit fils de famille.
Doutes qui laissent la place à l'inquiétude lorsqu'il comprend qu'il pourrait bien y laisser la peau.
La Défense Lincoln a été adapté au cinéma en 2011 avec Mathew McConaughey dans le rôle principal.
Préface inédite de l'auteur sur la genèse du roman.
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Chroniqueur judiciaire, Jack McEvoy ne peut croire au suicide de son frère jumeau. Si Sean, inspecteur de police, s'est bien tiré une balle dans la bouche, que vient faire ce Hors de l'espace, hors du temps d'Edgar Allan Poe écrit sur le pare-brise de sa voiture ? Et pourquoi Rusher, un indic qu'il devait voir ce jour-là, reste-t-il introuvable ? En s'immisçant dans une base de données du FBI pour les besoins d'un article, McEvoy découvre avec stupéfaction que beaucoup de policiers se suicident et que le FBI mène l'enquête sur la mort de son frère. Il comprend alors que cette affaire est en passe de lui fournir son plus gros scoop sur des meurtres en série. Mais il pressent aussi qu'il est devenu la prochaine cible du suspect...
LE classique absolu pour les fans de romans policiers.
Un livre au suspense implacable qui [a placé] Connelly au même niveau que Raymond Chandler ou James Ellroy, et l'[a fait] connaître dans le monde entier. François Busnel, Lire.
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Découvrez l'inspectrice Renée Ballard, la nouvelle héroïne de Michael Connelly Reléguée au quart de nuit du commissariat d'Hollywood, l'inspectrice Renée Ballard se lance dans des enquêtes qu'elle n'a pas le droit de mener à leur terme. Le règlement l'oblige en effet à les confier aux inspecteurs de jour dès la fin de son service. Mais, une nuit, elle tombe sur deux affaires qu'elle refuse d'abandonner : le tabassage d'un prostitué laissé pour mort dans un parking, et le meurtre d'une jeune femme lors d'une fusillade dans un night-club.
En violation de toutes les règles et contre les désirs mêmes de son coéquipier, elle décide de travailler les deux dossiers de jour tout en honorant ses quarts de nuit. L'épuisement la gagne, ses démons la rattrapent et la hiérarchie s'acharne, mais Renée Ballard n'est pas du genre à se laisser marcher sur les pieds. -
Récemment greffé du coeur, Terry McCaleb, l'un des meilleurs profileurs du FBI, profite de sa convalescence pour restaurer son bateau lorsqu'une certaine Graciela Rivers l'aborde et lui demande d'enquêter sur la mort de Gloria Torres, une jeune femme abattue à bout portant dans une épicerie de la banlieue de L.A. McCaleb refuse. Graciela insiste. McCaleb refusant à nouveau, Graciela se trouble puis lui révèle la vérité : le coeur avec lequel il revit est celui de Gloria, sa propre soeur.
Ne pouvant plus refuser, McCaleb se jette corps et âme dans l'enquête et découvre vite que, loin d'être l'oeuvre d'un petit malfrat, le meurtre de Gloria est celle d'un tueur à l'intelligence proprement machiavélique...
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Sur un mauvais adieu
Michael Connelly
- Le livre de poche
- Le Livre De Poche Policier/thriller
- 13 Mars 2019
- 9782253258414
À présent inspecteur de réserve au San Fernando Police Department, Harry Bosch est contacté par un magnat de l'industrie aéronautique qui, sentant sa mort approcher, souhaite savoir s'il a un héritier. Dans sa jeunesse, le vieil homme a dû quitter sa petite amie sous la pression de sa famille. Aurait-elle eu un enfant de lui ? Cette question n'étant pas du goût du conseil d'administration avide de se partager le gâteau, Bosch est vite menacé. Pour corser le tout, ses collègues du commissariat ne parviennent pas à mettre la main sur un violeur en série particulièrement redoutable... Missions « haute tension »Un bon cru. En quelques pages, Connelly nous accroche. Catherine Balle, Aujourd'hui en France.Un polar d'une belle noirceur et d'excellente facture. Bruno Corty, Le Figaro littéraire.Traduit de l'anglais par Robert Pépin.
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THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME''S BOSCH AND NETFLIX''S THE LINCOLN LAWYER SOME CRIMES YOU CAN''T FORGET.
OTHERS YOU CAN''T FORGIVE.
Detective Renee Ballard is given the chance to revive the LAPD''s cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is she must first unravel an unsolved murder, or lose this opportunity of a lifetime...
Harry Bosch is top of the list of investigators Ballard wants to recruit. The ex-detective is a living legend - but for how long?
Because Bosch has his own agenda: a crime that has haunted him for years - the murder of a whole family, buried out in the desert - which he vowed to close.
With the killer still out there and evidence elusive, Bosch is on a collision course with a choice he hoped never to make...
''Cements Connelly''s reputation as the master of modern crime fiction'' EXPRESS * * * * * CRIME DOESN''T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:
''The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'' IAN RANKIN ''An incredible writer'' RICHARD OSMAN ''The best mystery writer in the world'' GQ ''One of the world''s greatest crime writers'' DAILY MAIL ''A superb natural storyteller'' LEE CHILD ''A master'' STEPHEN KING ''A genius'' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ''Crime thriller writing of the highest order'' GUARDIAN ''One of the great storytellers of crime fiction'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH -
AS NIGHT FALLS, A KILLER COMES TO LIGHT... '' An authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly''s very best.'' THE TIMES On New Year''s Eve at the end of one of the hardest years in history, hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air in time-honoured LA tradition. But as the rain of lead comes down, a man is shot dead in the middle of a crowded street party. Detective Renee Ballard soon connects the bullet to an unsolved cold case last worked by legendary ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch . As they investigate where the old and new cases connect, a new crime shatters the night shift. The Midnight Men are a pair of violent predators who stalk the city during the dark hours, and will kill to keep their identities secret. In a police department shaken to the core by pandemic and protests, both cases have the power to save Ballard''s belief in the job - or take everything from her...
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Cassie Black gagne sa vie en vendant des Porsche aux célébrités d'Hollywood.
Seulement la jeune femme, en liberté conditionnelle, cache un lourd secret et doit se résoudre à voler de nouveau pour se protéger. Et il n'est malheureusement plus question de se contenter de cambrioler un casino mais de s'attaquer au plus grand fl ambeur de Las Vegas. Entrer dans sa suite du Cleopatra ne sera pas facile : caméras, gardes armés... rien n'est laissé au hasard côté surveillance. Le propriétaire de l'établissement en a confi é la responsabilité à un certain Karch qui, sadique et pervers, sait penser comme le meilleur des voleurs. Et comme si ça ne suffi sait pas, Cassie s'aperçoit peu à peu que les enjeux sont mille fois plus importants et compliqués que ce qu'elle s'était imaginé.
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Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked, in the new legal thriller from the bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and THE BLACK ECHO, Michael Connelly. In the LA Police's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually non-existent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random in this gripping police procedural.
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Is it the end of the line for Harry Bosch?
Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapist who was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman's son is found dead - fallen or pushed from a hotel window - and he insists on Bosch taking the case despite the two men's history of enmity.
The cases seem to be unrelated; one leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades, the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department...
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LAPD Detective Renée 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? Crime doesn't come better than Connelly: the brand new blockbuster from the crime-thriller powerhouse.
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Le recueil indispensable aux fans de Michael Connelly : une compilation de ses articles (1984 1992) en tant que chroniqueur judiciaire, ou la naissance d'un auteur.
Huit ans d'enquêtes pour le South Florida Sun-Sentinel et le Los Angeles Times avant de se lancer dans l'écriture de son premier roman, Les Égouts de Los Angeles : tel est l'apprentissage rigoureux d'un Michael Connelly qui n'écrit jamais rien sans avoir tout vérifié auprès des juges, des flics, des procureurs et des avocats de la défense.
Crimes crapuleux liés à la drogue, rackets, enlèvements, hold-up, agressions à main armée, rien n'est laissé de côté dans cette sélection d'articles où le sordide côtoie la corruption et le racisme (affaire Rodney King). Mais ce qui frappe avant tout, c'est l'immense empathie pour les victimes et leurs proches, celle que l'on retrouvera chez Harry Bosch. Connelly décrit au-delà du style journalistique. Il narre des trajectoires, il raconte déjà des histoires.
Avec ces chroniques, c'est à la naissance de l'immense écrivain de romans policiers que l'on assiste.
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*PRE-ORDER NOW* HOW DO YOU FIND A KILLER WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU? 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... * * * * * CRIME DOESN''T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY. ''One of the very best writers working today in any genre'' Sunday Telegraph ''The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'' Ian Rankin ''Crime thriller writing of the highest order'' Guardian ''A superb natural storyteller'' Lee Child ''A master'' Stephen King ''A genius'' Independent on Sunday ''America''s greatest living crime writer'' Daily Express ''No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly'' Evening Standard
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THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE OF HIS LIFE. ONLY THIS TIME THE DEFENDANT IS HIMSELF. ''This is Connelly on top form . . . A terrific thriller'' Mail on Sunday ''Grabs you on the very first page and doesn''t let go'' The Times * * * * * 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. Haller knows the law inside out. He will be charged with murder. He will have to build his case from behind bars. And the trial will be the trial of his life. Because Mickey Haller will defend himself in court. With watertight evidence stacked against him, Haller will need every trick in the book to prove he was framed. But a not-guilty verdict isn''t enough. In order to truly walk free, Haller knows he must find the real killer - that is the law of innocence... * * * * * ''Pick up this gripping book at your peril, especially if you have other things to do like working or sleeping.'' Express ''The so-called Lincoln Lawyer . . . turns in another dazzling courtroom performance'' New York Times Book Review * * * * * " The law of innocence is unwritten. It will not be found in a leather-bound code book. It will never be argued in a courtroom. In nature, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In the law of innocence, for every man not guilty of a crime there is a man out there who is. And to prove true innocence the guilty man must be found and exposed to the world. " * * * * * CRIME DOESN''T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY. ''One of the very best writers working today'' Sunday Telegraph ''The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'' Ian Rankin ''A superb natural storyteller'' Lee Child ''A master'' Stephen King ''Crime thriller writing of the highest order'' Guardian ''America''s greatest living crime writer'' Daily Express ''A crime writing genius'' Independent on Sunday
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Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defense Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn't the way he wanted to go, Harry has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits. Until Mickey asks him to help on one of his cases, and suddenly Harry is back where he belongs, right in the centre of a particularly puzzling murder mystery. The difference is, this time Harry is working for the defense, aiming to prevent the accused, Da'Quan Foster, from being convicted. And not only does the prosecution seem to have a cast-iron case, but having crossed over to 'the dark side' as his former colleagues would put it, Harry is in danger of betraying the very principles he's lived by his whole career.
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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
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Go back to where it all began for LAPD detective Harry Bosch, star of Amazon Prime's Bosch , in his first case The Black Echo - a gripping, action-packed thriller. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call-out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drugs overdose case, but the one new puncture wound amid the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced. To make matters worse, Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam, running against the VC and the fear they all used to call the Black Echo. Bosch believes he let down Billy Meadows once before, so now he is determined to bring the killer to justice.
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An execution on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam entangles Bosch with FBI Agent Rachel Walling and Homeland Security. The brilliant thirteenth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. When a physicist is murdered in LA, it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on the Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city. And when it's discovered that the victim turned over a quantity of a lethal chemical to his killer before he died, Harry knows he has more than just a single death to worry about. Alongside the forces of Homeland Security, Harry realises he must solve the murder or face unimaginable consequences.
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@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@
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Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA's darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly. 'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again. 'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.' Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared. Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment. Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.
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TWO KINDS OF TRUTH - HARRY BOSCH 20
Michael Connelly
- Orion publishing group
- 17 Mai 2018
- 9781409147589
Harry Bosch Nr. 20, 2017, noch ô dt.
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Chercheur surdoué en informatique moléculaire, Henry Pierce est en train de se séparer de sa petite amie, Nicole. Il prend un nouvel appartement et un nouveau numéro de téléphone, mais les premiers coups de fil qu'il reçoit sont étranges. Tous émanent d'hommes qui veulent parler à Lilly, une hôtesse d'accompagnement répertoriée sur un site web à caractère pornographique. Intrigué, Henry Pierce commence à enquêter, mais ne peut entrer en contact avec cette Lilly qui lui cause tant d'ennuis. L'affaire prend un vilain tour lorsqu'il est tabassé et laissé pour mort par deux voyous. Qui est derrière cette histoire qui le replonge dans un passé qu'il a tout fait pour oublier ? Mais surtout... pourquoi lui en veut-on pareillement ?
