The house in Silverlake was dark, its windows as empty as a dead man’s eyes. It was an old California Craftsman with a full front porch and two dormer windows set on the long slope of the roof. But no...
The best and fastest way to break a conspiracy was to identify the weakeast link in the chain and find a way to exploit it. When one link was broken, the chain would come loose.
The air they drove through was clear and crisp. They kept the windows up and their expectations down. The call was a suicide run. They
The John Handy Quintet was on the stereo and the song was Naima, Handy’s 1967 ode to John Coltrane.
That number could be divided in a variety of ways, putting the missing point of the triangle in a myriad of possible positions on the map. What
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Someone’s coming. Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf cart making its way up the steep and winding road to the
She was pretty pissed off, in fact, that she was under arrest and not going to be able to get her next fix in jail. You don’t sound like you have a lot of sympathy. I do to an extent. I’ve dealt with...
She had played the part in an episode of a television show called Bosch, which Ballard knew was based on the exploits of a now-retired LAPD detective who had formerly worked at RHD and the Hollywood d...
She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or
She came to the Cleopatra and her attention was immediately drawn to the side-by-side Tigris and Euphrates Towers. Her
Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.
Oxnard was the biggest city in Ventura County. Its unattractive name was that of a sugar beet farmer who built a processing plant in the settlement in the late nineteenth century. The city totally sur...
Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.
On my way out of rent-a-car row I saw a sign with an arrow pointing the way to Paradise Road. I thought that everybody needed a sign like that. I wished that it was that easy.
Nothing came up on the pubic comb, because you don’t have a lot down there to comb. Bottom
No, maybe you should start. I have my meeting at
Neither spoke, neither made a sound except for the deep exhalation of breath. First he felt her hips shudder, and soon after he desperately reached up and pulled her down into an embrace as his own bo...
Mossler was one of the SID’s latent-print men.
McCaleb classified these cops as avenging angels. It had been his experience that these cop/angels were the best investigators he ever worked with. He also came to believe that they traveled closest t...