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Dans la chambre de motel où l’officier des Narcotics, Cal Moore, est retrouvé mort, l’inspecteur du LAPD Harry Bosch se fait éconduire par sa hiérarchie : l’homme s’est suicidé, affaire classée. Mais

DARK SACRED NIGHT: A BOSCH AND BALLARD THRILLER

La vida de Jack McEvoy, un periodista especializado en crímenes atroces, sufre un vuelco cuando muere su hermano, un policía del Departamento de Homicidios. McEvoy decide seguir el rastro de diferentes policias que, como su hermano, presuntamente se suicidaron y dejaron una nota de despedida con una cita de Edgar Allan Poe. En realidad todo apunta a que murieron a manos de un asesino en serie capaz de burlar a los mejores investigadores.

For defence attorney Mickey Haller, the clock is always running.With two ex-wifes, four Lincoln cars that he uses as offices, and dozens of guilty clients, he cant afford to miss a trick. When he gets picked up by a Beverly Hills rich boy arrested for assault, Mickey sees a franchise case: a nice, long, expensive trial with maximum billable hours-until it hurtles him into the last place he wants to be. Suddenly hustling, cynical Mickey Haller is confronted with pure evil and someone who may be truly innocent. Now, for a lawyer who has always gone for the easy score, getting justice means taking the deadliest risk of all.

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn''t crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough. Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch.

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn''t crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough. Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch.

They''re called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence''s side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But when his case starts to fall apart and neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it''s easy to wind up as prey.

Bosch and Rider have to open up an unsolved unit, being told that Roulet has confessed to 9 murders. Their assignment is to dig up the investigative files and confirm that Roulet is indeed the culprit. They need Roulet to lead them to the murder scene in Echo Park. But things go terribly wrong. He escapes and then starts planning his next kill. In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the young woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn''t crack. ; Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA''s office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits'' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought - and hated - for thirteen years. ; Bosch''s whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn''t crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough. Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch.

Mickey Haller ist wieder zurück in seinem alten Job als Strafverteidiger und vertritt vor Gericht insolvente Hausbesitzer. Seine Klientin Lisa aber hat noch weit größere Sorgen als nur ihre Hypothek. Sie ist des Mordes angeklagt, weil sie den Chef ihrer Bank erschlagen haben soll. Für Mickey deutet alles darauf hin, dass in Wirklichkeit jemand anderes hinter Gitter gehört. Als er überfallen und zusammengeschlagen wird, begreift Mickey, dass seine unbekannten Gegenspieler wenig Skrupel kennen. Doch wie kann er die erdrückenden Beweise gegen Lisa entkräften? Und was, wenn Lisas Unschuldsmiene trügen sollte?

Vuelve Jack McEvoy el protagonista de El poeta, la novela más laureada de Michael Connelly. "Incluso los más fieles seguidores de Harry Bosch deberán admitir que esta novela, aun sin tener a Bosch de protagonista, es una de las mejores de Michael Connelly". Booklist

In a case that spans two decades, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but the case was handed to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch realises that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue

La vida de Harry Bosh es un desastre. Su novia le ha abandonado, su casa se halla en un estado ruinoso tras haber sufrido los efectos de un terremoto, y él está bebiendo demasiado. Bosch se resiste a ver al medico asignado por la policia de Los Angeles, pero finalmente acaba reconociendo que un hecho tragico del pasado continua interfiriendo en su presente.En 1961, cuando tenia once años, su madre, una prostituta, fue brutalmente asesinada. El caso fue repentinamente cerrado y nadie fue inculpado por el crimen. Bosch decide reabrirlo buscando, si no justicia, al menos respuestas que apaciguen la inquietud que le ha embargado durante años.

Jack McEvoy tiene los días contados como periodista de sucesos; sus momentos de gloria languidecen y su nombre se baraja en las listas de recortes previstos por Los Angeles Times. Sin embargo, guarda todavia un ultimo cartucho: la redaccion de la que pretende que sea la cronica criminal mas impactante de su carrera.Para ese proposito, elige a Alonzo Winslow, un drogadicto de dieciseis años encarcelado tras confesar la autoria del asesinato de una joven hallada estrangulada en el maletero de un coche. Jack quiere escribir acerca de la negligencia y la injusticia social que convirtieron a Winslow en un asesino. Al adentrarse en la historia, descubre que la confesion del chico es falsa y sospecha que es inocente. Tras vincular el asesinato del maletero de Los Angeles con otro acontecido en Las Vegas, McEvoy se ve ante el reportaje mas espectacular de su carrera desde que el Poeta se cruzara con el años atras. Una vieja amiga del pasado se une a la investigacion; se trata de la agente del FBI, Rachel Walling. Juntos le pisaran los talones a un psicopata que lleva demasiado tiempo actuando a la sombra del radar del FBI y la policia.