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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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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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Une nouvelle inspectrice à découvrir ! 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. 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.
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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 -
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff''s deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn''t add up, and a sheriff''s department intent on bringing a quick search for justice in the killing of one of its own.
The path to justice for both the lawyer and his investigator is fraught with danger from those who don''t want the case reopened. And they will stop at nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from uncovering what the deputy''s killing was really about.
CRIME DOESN''T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:
''The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation''
IAN RANKIN
''The best mystery writer in the world''
GQ
''A superb natural storyteller''
LEE CHILD
''A master''
STEPHEN KING
''America''s greatest living crime writer''
DAILY EXPRESS
''One of the great storytellers of crime fiction''
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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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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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The Drop, un roman de Michael Connelly, vient enrichir la collection d'ouvrages contemporains Harrap's écrits par des auteurs à succès pour donner envie de lire en VO et ainsi d'entretenir son anglais, à l'aide de notes de bas de page traduisant les mots et expressions que le lecteur est susceptible de ne pas connaître.
Il reste trois ans à Harry Bosch avant qu'il ne soit obligé de prendre sa retraite de la Police de Los Angeles et il souhaite, plus que jamais, se voir confier de nouvelles affaires. En une matinée, on lui en donne deux.Un échantillon d'ADN retrouvé d'un viol datant de 1989 correspond à celui d'un jeune homme de 29 ans qui a depuis été condamné pour viol. A-t-il pu tuer alors qu'il était seulement âgé de 8 ans à l'époque, ou une grave erreur a-t-elle été commise par le Laboratoire régional de la police judiciaire ? Cette dernière éventualité pourrait compromettre toutes les affaires, actuellement en instance de jugement, basées sur des prélèvements d'ADN analysés par le Laboratoire.Bosch et son partenaire sont alors appelés sur une scène de crime chargée de tensions liées à des questions de politique interne. En effet, le fils du conseiller municipal Irvin Irving s'est, ou a été, défenestré au Château Marmont. Irving, qui souhaite, depuis de nombreuses années, mettre fin à la carrière policière de Bosch exige cependant que ce dernier mène l'enquête.Alors que Bosch travaille sans relâche sur les deux affaires, il fait deux découvertes effrayantes : un tueur inconnu qui sévit en ville depuis au moins une trentaine d'années et une conspiration politique qui remonte à une époque sombre dans l'histoire du service de police.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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@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@
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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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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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@2@@20@After three years as a PI, Harry Bosch returns to the LAPD. The superb page-turning eleventh Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. @21@@3@@2@Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed race girl. @3@@2@The police department has changed, but one thing hasn't - Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a 'retread'. He watches from the sidelines like an injured bear, hoping Harry will make a mistake . . .@3@
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@2@@20@A superb novel featuring both Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer and The Gods of Guilt. @21@@16@@20@@21@@16@Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems, but now he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer, Vincent, dies, and Haller gets an unexpected windfall: he inherits all Vincent's clients, putting his stalled career back on track at a stroke. @3@@2@Not only that, but Vincent had taken on a high-profile and potentially lucrative murder case. It'll be a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight - and if Mickey can win against the odds, he'll really be back in the big leagues. @3@@2@The only problem is the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to defend a client successfully who might just be planning to murder him.@3@
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@2@@20@Award-winning No.1 bestselling author Michael Connelly's ninth Bosch book. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch has retired from the Los Angeles Police Department - but the discovery of a startling unsolved murder among his old case files means he cannot rest until he finds the killer. @21@@3@@2@When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a movie set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal, and when Bosch decides to reinvestigate, he quickly falls foul of both his old colleagues and the FBI. @3@@2@When the private investigation enables him to meet up with an old friend, shadows from his past come back to haunt him . . .@3@
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@2@@20@The fifth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. The murder of a Hollywood producer has all the signs of a mob hit but something doesn't add up for Harry Bosch. Featured in Series 2 of BOSCH on Amazon Prime@21@@3@@2@Harry Bosch is back at the LAPD in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. @3@@2@In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls-Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - the execution style of the Mafia where the victim is shot in his own vehicle - but the victim is LA movie producer Tony Aliso, and the mob weren't the only ones after him.@3@@2@ Bosch finds himself up against the FBI - and back in the arms of a beautiful ex-felon. It's starting to look like Harry's first case back in Homicide is in danger of being his last . . .@3@
