Le poete

Le temps presse... Renée Ballard revient prendre la direction de l'unité des Affaires non résolues et demande à Harry Bosch, maintenant à la retraite, de l'aider à résoudre l'affaire de deux jeunes femmes tuées de la même façon à dix ans d'intervalle. Bosch ne saurait refuser : peut-être pourra-t-il en profiter également pour arrêter le psychopathe qui a abattu toute une famille dans le désert de Mojave et qui n'a jamais été retrouvé ? Par le maître du roman policier contemporain !

L'étoile du désert

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.

Ceux qui tombent (Cal-Lévy- R. Pépin)

Ceux qui tombent

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!

THE DROP

Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves.Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret. When he was young, he had a relationship with a Mexican girl, his great love. But soon after becoming pregnant, she disappeared. Did she have the baby? And if so, what happened to it?Desperate to know whether he has an heir, the dying magnate hires Bosch, the only person he can trust. With such a vast fortune at stake, Harry realizes that his mission could be risky not only for himself but for the one he's seeking. But as he begins to uncover the haunting story--and finds uncanny links to his own past--he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.At the same time, unable to leave cop work behind completely, he volunteers as an investigator for a tiny cash-strapped police department and finds himself tracking a serial rapist who is one of the most baffling and dangerous foes he has ever faced.

Sur un mauvais adieu

Suite à la demande de la veuve de Terry McCaleb (qui vient de mourir), l'ex-inspecteur du LAPD Harry Bosch accepte de remettre de l'ordre dans les papiers du disparu. Rendu inquiet par certaines révélations de l'ancien associé de McCaleb, Bosch sent qu'il faut aller y voir de plus près et comprend vite qu'il y a eu meurtre. Encore faut-il le prouver et retrouver un assassin qui, détail bizarre, a laissé des traces un peu trop manifestes de son passage. Chercherait-il à se faire attraper ? Trop simple. De fait, on dirait bien que l'inconnu connaissait parfaitement sa victime et a envie qu'on le trouve, mais au terme d'un périple de plus en plus dangereux.
Pendant ce temps-là, l'agent Rachel Walling (cf. le roman de Connelly, Le Poète) reçoit, elle, l'appel qu'elle redoutait depuis des années : le tueur le plus cruel et retors qu'il lui ait été jamais donné de vouloir capturer : le Poète...
Ainsi commence un des romans les plus violents, douloureux et risqués de Michael Connelly : mettre son héros fétiche et son assassin le plus impitoyable en conflit direct n'était pas chose facile et la réussite est fulgurante.

Los Angeles river

Missions « haute tension » pour Bosch : traquer un violeur en série et retrouver un héritier que certains refusent de voir apparaître dans le tableau. Glaçant et émouvant. À présent inspecteur de réserve au San Fernando Police Department, Harry Bosch est un jour 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… « Ce nouveau Bosch est une réussite : noir, complexe,plein de suspense et de tristesse. En deux mots :encore une enquête géniale de Michael Connelly. »The Washington Post

Sur un mauvais adieu (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #28)

At the end of a long, dark night Detectives   Renee   Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the very first time.         * * * * *        Detective Renee Ballard  is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.  The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective  Harry Bosch , working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents.  Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway who was brutally murdered. He crossed paths with her devastated mother while working a previous case, and Daisy's story has seized hold of him.     PRE-ORDER THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER CRIME THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER TODAY.      * * * * *      Critics agree, crime writing doesn't come better than Connelly:       'One of the world's greatest crime writers'   Daily Mail    'A master of the genre'  Stephen King   'Crime thriller writing of the highest order'   Guardian        'A superb natural storyteller'  Lee Child     'Harry Bosch: one of the finest minds in crime fiction'   Evening Standard    'America's greatest living crime writer'   Daily Express        'A crime writing genius'   Independent on Sunday

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