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"Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. It's a frustrating assignment for a once up-and-coming detective, but it's no accident. She's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with. First, a prostitute...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The road back to glory of a policewoman who became a prostitute. She is Lieutenant Lorraine Page of California, disgraced for killing a fleeing teenager while drunk, an act which cost her job. Abandoned by her family, she has lived on the street as a hooker. A murder, the victim of which was a friend, reawakens old instincts and as she hunts for the killer, she is transformed. By the author of Bella Mafia.
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Publisher
Little Brown
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. 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 cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...
4) City of fire
Author
Series
Lena Gamble thrillers volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Ren�ee Ballard catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, Ballard works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.
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Renee Ballard novels volume 2
Bosch and Ballard volume 1
A Ballard and Bosch novel
Harry Bosch Universe volume 31
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Bosch and Ballard volume 1
A Ballard and Bosch novel
Harry Bosch Universe volume 31
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English
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Detective Renee Ballard is working the night beat--known in LAPD slang as "the late show"--and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.
Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has...
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Charlotte Justice novels volume 3
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English
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During the Los Angeles campaign to replace longtime incumbent mayor Tom Bradley, the stakes are high for Detective Charlotte Justice, of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. When she's called to Koreatown to investigate the shocking murder of Vicki Park, special markets strategist for an upstart campaign, all of her skills-and fears-come to the fore. Park, a Korean, is found bludgeoned and bound, her body dumped in an alley. But who was the...
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In the near future, the world has become home to certain people with amazing genetic structures, giving them powers that make them frighteningly superior to normal humans. Not a typical comic book superhero novel, John Ridley introduces a brave new world of heroes and villains, and shows that there's no such thing as a good guy or a bad guy.
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Renee Ballard novels volume 3
Renée Ballard volume 3
Ren�ee Ballard volume 3
Reně Ballard volume 3
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Renée Ballard volume 3
Ren�ee Ballard volume 3
Reně Ballard volume 3
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English
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Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
10) Street dreams
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Rescuing a newborn that has been abandoned in a dumpster, LAPD officer Cindy Decker, the wife of detective Peter Decker, begins a search through inner-city Hollywood in search of the baby's mother and uncovers a dangerous drug ring.
11) Twisted: a novel
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Petra Connor novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When a brutal murder is scheduled for June 28th, detective Petra Connor must find the serial killer who, so far, has evaded the police.
12) Movieland
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Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case ... which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve came to Lost Hills"--
13) Twisted
Author
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
When a brutal murder is scheduled for June 28th, detective Petra Connor must find the serial killer who, so far, has evaded the police.
17) Destroyer
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Erin Bell was, as a young cop, placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, Bell must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.