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1) Hangman
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English
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus face a familiar sociopath in this electrifying new tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that his involvement will bring her sociopathic husband, Chris Donatti, back into his life. But then Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears, leaving their 14-year-old son Gabe behind....
3) Heartbeat
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English
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The story of two people as they struggle to cope with life. Bill Thigpen, producer of the number-one daytime drama bumps into married and pregnant Adrian Townsend. They discover what they both need, fall in love with, can't live without, is each other
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, excellent in a role with somewhat limited parameters) finds her 9-year-old son, Walter, missing when she returns home from work one day. She files a report with the Los Angeles Police Department, an outfit that was wildly unpopular at the time (in his regular radio broadcast, a crusading pastor played by John Malkovich decries the force as "violent and corrupt," adding that "our protectors are our brutalizers")....
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
1940s Los Angeles - a time of big bands, big cars and a mob that ruled the waterfront. when a Chinese businessman is pulled from the river wearing a pair of cement boots, cop Frank Doakey tekes the case. Doakey's investigation takes him to the Peking Empress Club, a glamourous bordello in the heart of Chinatown, where the girls are disappearing one by one. The murders are clearly linked and only one man has witnessed the crimes - but the mob has...
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English
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus must solve a crime that will have repercussions for their own lives, in this new crime drama. As a lieutenant in the LAPD, homicide detective Peter Decker doesn't get many calls at 3 a.m. unless a case is nasty, sensationalor both. Someone has broken into the exclusive Coyote Ranch compound of billionaire developer Guy Kaffey and viciously gunned him down, along with his wife and four employees. A well-known figure...
7) 24: Season 6
Publisher
20th Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Starting twenty months after last seasonś finale Jack Bauer is suddenly returned to the U. S. in exchange for terrorist Hamri Al-Assad. But when he learns that his captor is actually the person causing the terrorist attacks, Bauer must convince the president and the CTU that the man they are trying to kill is the only one who can stop the violence.
8) 24: season 4
Publisher
20th Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The season kicks off with a deadly terrorist strike resulting in the kidnapping of his new boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Heller. It doesn't take the super-agent long to discover the kidnapping of his boss is part of a much larger plan, master-minded by Habib Marvan.
9) 24: Season 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It's been 3 years since CTU agent, Jack Bauer thwarted a terrorist attempt to plunge the United States into war. Now he's back in L.A. after working undercover for six months bringing down drug lord Ramon Salazar.
10) 24: Season 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after the murder of his wife, Jack Bauer is estranged from his daughter, Kim, and no longer works for the CIA's Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit. But a phone call from the president sends a reluctant Jack back to CTU. There he's told of a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in L.A.
11) Flipping Out
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A copś wife has been murdered. As LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs investigate, a second copś wife is killed. Both women were part of an ingenious real estate scheme run by bestselling murder mystery author Nora Bannister: she buys a house in L.A. dirt cheap, and while her partners turn it into a showplace, Nora murders someone there in her next book.
12) 24: Season 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Starting with a bang and never letting up, an intricate executive-level conspiracy to control Central Asia's oil supply. The day-long ordeal begins with a devastating political assassination connected to a disgraced former CTU agent and a radical group of Russian separatists threatening to release lethal nerve gas in Los Angeles to protest a U.S./Russian treaty about to be signed by President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin.
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Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 11
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
As the subtitle suggests, Joe Pike, the intriguing, enigmatic partner of L.A. PI Elvis Cole, takes center stage in this intense thriller from bestseller Crais (The Two Minute Rule). To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a "wrong place wrong time" encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control. The enemy is shadowy, violent and relentlessb́ut...
15) Sizzle: A novel
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English
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Accidentally leaving her camera running while filming a documentary in the hills of Los Angeles, Lyra Prescott inadvertently records a shocking crime and finds herself targeted by the killer, a situation for which attractive FBI agent Ben Kincaid is dispatched to protect her.
16) Gully
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Powerful and unflinchingly honest, it is the explosive and timely story of three boyhood friends, Calvin, Nicky, and Jesse, surviving an upbringing in LA's roughest neighborhoods. Steeped in violence but united by friendship, together they find their escape in one out-of-control night of partying. But when the rampage stops, retribution begins
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
A comic thriller. When Leroy "Chinese" Gorgon breaks into a professor's lab, he's after some phamaceutical cocaine. Instead he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into choas.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine. He awakens one morning to find his fiancée dead in bed alongside him, not long after she participated in an iDoc beta test. Then several of his patients die after undergoing imaging procedures....
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in 1967, Mosley's brilliant 10th Easy Rawlins thriller finds the middle-aged Easy still fighting some of the same battles he fought in his first outing, as an angry young WWII vet trying to make his home in postwar Los Angeles. His family has grown from none to many over the years, and now Easy is dealing with the loss of the love of his life, Bonnie, and his decision to make her leave him. Despite Easy's vulnerability and anguish, he's a staunch...