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*THE FIRST EVER BOSCH & BALLARD THRILLER: THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* At the end of a long, dark night Detectives Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the very first time. * * * * * Detective Renee Ballard works the graveyard shift and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old files.The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, hunting for leads in an unsolved case that has got under his skin. Ballard escorts him out but - curious to know what he was searching for - soon becomes obsessed by the murder of Daisy Clayton. Was she the first victim of a serial killer who still stalks the streets? For Bosch, the case is more than personal: it may be all he has left. But in a city where crime never sleeps, even detectives have a dark side...

Dnes už kultovní detektiv Harry Bosch se představil čtenářům v roce 1992 a brzy se přiřadil k řadě nejslavnějších postav americké tvrdé školy, jakými jsou například Phil Marlowe nebo Steve Carella. Černá ozvěna, jejíž reedici ve zcela novém překladu připravujeme k vydání, je Boschovým prvním případem. Mrtvý muž nalezený u odpadní výpustě Mulhollandské přehrady je pro Harryho mnohem více než jen další položka do statistiky obětí trestných činů. S Billym Meadowsem sloužil ve vietnamské válce; tunelové krysy se jim říkalo. Společně prošli peklem. A teď jako by se měla historie opakovat. Tedy alespoň pro Harryho. Pátrání ho zavede do změti temných tunelů pod městem, kde v něm ožijí všechny dávné válečné hrůzy. Jedině tam ale může rozplést síť organizovaných zločinců a překupníků drog, jimž nahoře napomáhají zkorumpovaní státní úředníci.

Detective Renée Ballard has faced everything the LAPD's notorious dusk-till-dawn graveyard shift has thrown at her. But, until tonight, she'd never met Harry Bosch - an ex-homicide detective consumed by this case. Soon, she too will become obsessed by the murder of Daisy Clayton. Because Ballard and Bosch both know: every murder tells a story. And Daisy's case file reads like the first chapter in an untold tragedy that is still being written - one that could end with Ballard herself, if she cannot bring the truth to light...

Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked, in the new legal thriller from the bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and THE BLACK ECHO, Michael Connelly. In the LA Police's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually non-existent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random in this gripping police procedural.

LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret that was meant to be snuffed out? 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, J.J. 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 murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?

Renée Ballard szó szerint a hollywoodi éjszakában dolgozik. A Los Angeles-i rendőrség éjszakai műszakjának tagjaként többnyire ő ér először a legbrutálisabb bűncselekmények helyszíneire - hogy aztán az összes u?gyet átadja a dicsőséget végu?l learató nappalos kollégáknak. Ehálátlan beosztás nem más, mint bu?ntetés, miután a fiatal nyomozónő néhány évvel ezelőtt szexuális zaklatásért tett panaszt az egyik felettese ellen, és ígéretes karrierje ezzel derékba tört. Egyéjjel azonban, miután először egy parkolóban agyonvert prostituálthoz, majd egy éjszakai klubban lezajló mészárlás ártatlan áldozatához hívják, elege lesz, és társa kérése és a felsőbb utasítások ellenére önhatalmúlag folytatja a nyomozást. Ballard ekkor még nem tudja, hogy kutakodása milyen mélyre viszi majd városa fekete szívébe, a rendőrségi titkokba és a saját múltjába. Michael Connelly, napjaink egyik legjobb krimiszerzője, Harry Bosch megalkotója újabb remekbe szabott történettel és felejthetetlen karakterrel tér vissza!

A JUDGE MURDERED IN A CITY PARK Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, defends the man accused. A HOMELESS PERSON BURNED ALIVE Detective Renee Ballard catches the case on the LAPD's notorious graveyard shift. AN UNSOLVED HOMICIDE FROM A LIFETIME AGO Harry Bosch is left a missing case file by his mentor who passed away. He was the man who taught Bosch that everybody counts, or nobody counts. Why did he keep the case all these years? To find the truth - or bury it? IN L.A. CRIME NEVER SLEEPS But in Ballard, Bosch and Haller: the fire always burns. Will it light the way - or leave their lives in ashes?

Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he's never been accused of being one himself. Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he's a suspect in her murder. Maybe it's because he doesn't like being accused of a crime he didn't commit. Or maybe it's because the method of her murder is so chilling that he can't get it out of his head. But as he uses his journalistic skills to open doors closed to the police, Jack walks a thin line between suspect and detective - between investigation and obsession - on the trail of a killer who knows his victims better than they know themselves... Riveting, original and terrifying - this masterpiece from Michael Connelly is the best thriller you will read this summer.

Harry Bosch nemusel ani chvíľu premýšľať, či pozná zavraždeného predavača MOTTO LIQUORS a či jeho príbuzným môže naisto sľúbiť, že jeho vraha privedie za každú cenu pred spravodlivosť. To ešte netušil, aká vysoká tá cena bude... Už na samom začiatku vyšetrovania sa mu podarí zásad-ný prelom, keď zistí, že zavraždeného vydierala čínska mafia známa pod názvom Triáda. Hneď nato sa však vyšetrovanie viac-menej končí, pretože Bosch dostane anonymnú výstrahu a zároveň neznámi páchatelia v Číne unesú j eho dospievajúcu dcéru, takže namiesto pátrania v Los Angeles musí letieť do Hongkongu, aby tam bojoval na vlastnú päsť, unikal pred políciou, opäť zažil spolu-prácu so svojou životnou láskou bývalou agentkou FBI ale najmä zachránil svoje jediné dieťa.

Crime reporter Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line. With cuts being made, he´s got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his young replacement. But Jack has other plans. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win jo

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 holdup. 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.

They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested, Mickey 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 representing a client who is actually innocent. But when his case starts to fall apart, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.

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...

THE LINCOLN LAWYER: Operating out of the back of a Lincoln car, and with two ex-wives and dozens of guilty clients, defence attorney Mickey Haller can't afford to miss a trick. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying - and seemingly innocent - client in years. But then the case starts to fall apart, and the suspect isn't quite who he seems - and Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey. THE BRASS VERDICT: When another lawyer, Jerry Vincent, dies, Mickey Haller inherits all his clients - putting his stalled career back on track. The only problem is the detective handling the case - Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him. THE REVERSAL: When Mickey Haller is invited to prosecute a case, he knows something strange is going on. To switch sides would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like Mickey's been set up...

Michael Connelly je majstrom v udržaní dynamiky príbehu a nečakaného rozuzlenia. Za svoju novinársku tvorbu bol navrhnutý na Pulitzerovu cenu a za knihu Básnik smrti dostal Anthonyho cenu za najlepší román v roku 1997. Novinár Jack McEvoy je špecialista na smrť. Na stránkach Rocky Mountain News píše o zločinoch. Je presvedčený o tom, že pri práci sa už stretol s každým druhom násilia. Jeho profesionálny prístup rozbije šokujúca samovražda brata, detektíva z oddelenia vrážd. Jack vie, že brat pracoval na prípade, ktorý sa mu nepodarilo vyriešiť. Usiluje sa upokojiť tým, že píše článok o samovraždách policajtov. Už prvé riadky ho však ponoria do prípadu, v ktorom sa čochvíľa sám stane terčom šialeného vraha.

V roku 1993 zmizla cestou zo supermarketu Marie Gestová. Na prípade jej zmiznutia pracoval detektív Harry Bosch, no nedokázal ho vyriešiť. Mladá žena sa nikdy nenašla. Bosch má spis Gestovej znova na stole, keď mu nečakane zavolajú z prokuratúry. Muž obvinený z dvoch ohavných zločinov je ochotný priznať sa k niekoľkým ďalším vrátane zmiznutia Marie Gestovej. Harry musí prijať priznanie muža, ktorého hľadal a nenávidel trinásť rokov. Keď sa dozvie, že v roku 1993 s partnerom prehliadli stopu, čo ich mohla priviesť k vrahovi, a zachrániť tak život deviatim ľuďom, jeho istota v role policajného detektíva sa začína rúcať.