Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas's rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props--a pair of pantyhose.
Author
Series
Ash Levine mysteries volume 1
Formats
Description
Detective Ash Levine dives in headfirst to investigate a ex-cop's murder in a case that propels him into the shadow lands of Southern California, from the seamy escort services of Hollywood, to the high-end art dealers in the Hollywood Hills, to the gangs of South Central. He hopes to get a chance to also find out whose responsible for the death of Latisha Patton, his witness that was murdered.
3) Skies of Ash
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 2
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, investigate a tragic house fire that claimed the lives of a woman and her two children and become convinced that the grieving husband and father is the main suspect.
4) Free fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fianc?, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble?the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they...
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is surprised to find herself in the apartment building she grew up in. Chanita was interested in photography and, much like Lou, a black girl destined...
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"After a long Labor Day weekend, seventy-three-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first blush, his death seems unremarkable; heatwave combined with food poisoning from a holiday barbecue. But something in the way Washington died doesn't make sense. LAPD Homicide Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called to investigate the death and learns that the only family Washington had was the 6,000-member congregation of Blessed...
Author
Series
Description
Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns everything over to the day shift. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.But one night she catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in...
8) Lost hills
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 1
Formats
Description
"Now Eve, with a lot to learn and resented by her colleagues, has to justify her new badge. Her chance comes when she and her burned-out, soon-to-retire partner are called to the blood-splattered home of a missing single mother and her two kids. The horrific carnage screams multiple murder-but there are no corpses."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Description
There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title