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Blood Work' - that's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is keeping him alive. Then a newspaper report of his brush with death brings him an unwanted visitor. Graciela Rivers reveals to McCaleb that the anonymous donor of his heart was her murdered sister, and that the police investigation into the case is going nowhere. McCaleb feels he has no choice but to take on the investigation. Nothing about the seemingly random killing makes sense. McCaleb realises that someone is watching his every move - someone who has killed before and will kill again...

Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her. Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and as a new father. He gets a call, too, from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. This fact alone makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious. And Harry Bosch is heading straight into the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered...

V románe Kurfové tango Michael Connely vracia opäť do hry detektíva Harryho Boscha, ktorý hneď musí riešiť jednu z najzávažnejších vrážd v Hollywoode. V kufre auta sa našla mŕtvola filmového producenta a všetko naznačuje, že išlo o vybavovanie účtov, klasickú mafiánsku vraždu. Harry sa vyberie po stopách peňazí, ktoré ho privedú do Las Vegas. Jeho odhodlanie a výdrž však znamenajú, že si pri riešení prípadu narobí aj veľmi mocných nepriateľov. No a keby nestačilo, že je aj tak po kolená v problémoch, čaká naňho aj najväčší hazard zo všetkých - láska. Miešať prácu so zábavou by ho mohlo dostať na nesprávnu cestu - a predčasne do hrobu, aký vie pripraviť iba lasvegaské podsvetie.

Advokát Mickey Haller má za sebou ťažké obdobie rekonvalescencie po poslednom prípade, pri ktorom takmer prišiel o život, a chystá sa vrátiť do veľkej hry americkej justície. Kým sa stihne poriadne usadiť na zadnom sedadle svojho lincolna, zavraždia jeho slávneho kolegu a on chtiac-nechtiac zdedí nesmierne výnosný prípad. Dokáže presvedčiť Harryho Boscha o svojej nevine a ubrániť sa vrahovi, ktorý zjavne ide aj po nasledovníkovi mŕtveho právnika?

Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed race girl. The police department has changed, but one thing hasn't - Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a 'retread'. He watches from the sidelines like an injured bear, hoping Harry will make a mistake...

Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LOS ANGELES TIMES, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour - a PULITZER PRIZE. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar. Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming...

When a physicist is murdered in LA it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city. And when it's discovered that the victim turned over a quantity of a lethal chemical to his killer before he died, Harry knows he has more than just a single death to worry about. Alongside the forces of Homeland Security, Harry realises he must solve the murder or face unimaginable consequences.

Bohové viny Dobrý advokát musí především umět rozpoznat své vlastní viny. Mickey Haller se po krátkém přeběhnutí na stranu obžaloby vrací ke svému původnímu řemeslu: provozuje advokátní praxi ze zadního sedadla lincolnu a čeká na lukrativní případ. Dočká se brzy. Textová zpráva s kódovým označením pro vraždu je pro něj znamením, že se vrací zpátky na výsluní, kde se hraje o obrovskou mediální pozornost a tučné šeky. Tato kauza má však jeden háček: obětí zločinu je jeho bývalá klientka, prostitutka Gloria Daytonová. Mickey se domníval, že se mu ji podařilo přivést na správnou cestu. Zjevně se mýlil: Gloria se vrátila do Los Angeles i k dřívějšímu způsobu života. Nezachránil ji, naopak možná má na její smrti částečný podíl. Plný pochybností se ujímá obhajoby člověka, který byl z vraždy obviněn – o jeho nevině je ale Mickey stále silněji přesvědčen. Od samého začátku ví, že tento případ pro něj nebude lehký. Bude muset oživit temné duchy své minulosti, aby dokázal přesvědčit o své pravdě bohy viny – porotce, kteří mají rozhodnout nejen o osudu jeho klienta, ale zároveň i o něm samém.

Bohové viny Dobrý advokát musí především umět rozpoznat své vlastní viny. Mickey Haller se po krátkém přeběhnutí na stranu obžaloby vrací ke svému původnímu řemeslu: provozuje advokátní praxi ze zadního sedadla lincolnu a čeká na lukrativní případ. Dočká se brzy. Textová zpráva s kódovým označením pro vraždu je pro něj znamením, že se vrací zpátky na výsluní, kde se hraje o obrovskou mediální pozornost a tučné šeky. Tato kauza má však jeden háček: obětí zločinu je jeho bývalá klientka, prostitutka Gloria Daytonová. Mickey se domníval, že se mu ji podařilo přivést na správnou cestu. Zjevně se mýlil: Gloria se vrátila do Los Angeles i k dřívějšímu způsobu života. Nezachránil ji, naopak možná má na její smrti částečný podíl. Plný pochybností se ujímá obhajoby člověka, který byl z vraždy obviněn – o jeho nevině je ale Mickey stále silněji přesvědčen. Od samého začátku ví, že tento případ pro něj nebude lehký. Bude muset oživit temné duchy své minulosti, aby dokázal přesvědčit o své pravdě bohy viny – porotce, kteří mají rozhodnout nejen o osudu jeho klienta, ale zároveň i o něm samém.

Harry Bosch is alone, without backup - and this time the case is personal. From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer. Features in Amazon Prime's BOSCH TV series. The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary hold-up. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man. From the bestselling author of THE GODS OF GUILT. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car, a Lincoln, taking whatever cases the system throws in his path. He's been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But then the case starts to fall apart, neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem - and Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.

The 5th Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author. The murder of a Hollywood producer has all the signs of a Mafia hit, but something doesn't add up...BOSCH TV STARTS FEBRUARY 2015! Harry Bosch is back in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - a Mafia hit, the victim shot in his own vehicle - but the victim is movie producer Tony Aliso - and the Mafia weren't the only ones after him. Bosch finds himself up against the FBI - and back in the arms of a beautiful ex-felon. It's starting to look like Harry's first case back in Homicide is in danger of being his last...

When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell, the case should be watertight. Pell's DNA was found on the victim - but he was only eight years old at the time. This is not the only mystery Harry Bosch has to solve. A man jumped - or was pushed - from a window. The victim's father is Councilman Irving, who's been intent on destroying Harry's career for years. Now Irving wants Harry to head up the investigation. Harry uncovers traces of two of the city's deepest secrets: a killer operating for as many as three decades without being detected, and a conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department...

Harry Bosch meets an ex-FBI profiler in one of the most disturbing cases he has faced...From the bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER. BOSCH TV STARTS FEBRUARY 2015. Terry McCaleb's enforced quiet lifestyle on the island of Catalina is a far cry from the hectic excitement of his former role as an FBI profiler. However, when small-time criminal Edward Gunn is found dead, McCaleb becomes embroiled in a disturbing and complex case leading him to cross the path of Harry Bosch. This infamous detective has always teetered on the brink of darkness in order to get inside the head of the killer. Is it possible that he has stepped across that finely drawn line and embraced darkness?

Charizmatický Michael Connelly je ikonou amerického detektívneho románu. Popularitu si už dávno získal aj u slovenských čitateľov. Tí netrpezlivo očakávajú každú z jeho nových kníh. Napísal dvadsaťpäť románov a niektoré z nich boli sfilmované. V románe Bohovia viny advokát Mickey Haller opäť rozohrá smrteľne nebezpečnú partiu – poškuľuje po poste okresného prokurátora. Kariérny rozlet mu však skomplikuje jeho nový prípad. Haller obhajuje klienta, ktorý je obvinený z vraždy, a zároveň vyšetruje smrť prostitútky Glorie Daytonovej, svojej bývalej chránenkyne, ktorej pomáhal začať nový život. Postupne však zistí trpkú pravdu: niektorí zločinci sú chránení lepšie ako ktorýkoľvek z jeho klientov. Pre Mickeyho nadobúda pojem „bohovia viny“ celkom nový rozmer. Nie sú to iba porotcovia na súde, ale aj tí, ktorým v živote pomohol, no i tí, ktorým ublížil.

Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt.