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Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Packaging!, 0, Harvill. Very Good. 22cm. Paperback. 1996. 89 pages. <br>Jaan Kaplinski is Estonia's outstanding poet, rever ed in the Baltic States and Scaandinavia and now acquiring a wide r international renown as poet, philosopher and politician. His p revious books of poetry have gained recognition in Britain and Th e Wandering Border was joint winner of the Poetry Society's Europ ean Poetry Translation Prize. In Through the Forest, Kaplinski pu rsues some of his favourite themes, reasserting the logical absur dities produced by borders and the human need for clear, sharp di visions. Once again he demonstrates that rare blend of simplicity and intellectual rigour that is one of his hallmarks. This is th e journal of a year which takes as its starting point the free-fl owing natural and domestic worlds. In it, Kaplinski attempts to w rite himself free of restrictions to thought and art, free of art , free of the encumbrances of his own self. Mixing poetry and pro se, this is an extraordinarily exhilarating work of art. ., Harvill, 1996, 3, Harrison House Inc. Fair. 5.5 x 0.51 x 8.5 inches. Paperback. 2012. 225 pages. Cover worn. Cover creased. Text tanned.<br>Do you know the real God? He s not the Big Guy in the Sky you may have been brought up to believe in - angry and ready to hit you with a ligh tning bolt every time you do wrong. He is the loving, joyful, and generous Father of all creation. No matter what you ve been taug ht or where you are in your Christian walk today, you can experie nce more of God's goodness, grace, mercy, and abundance! Best-sel ling author and evangelist, Jesse Duplantis, candidly shares his life experiences and the incredible revelation knowledge he has l earned about God s true nature in this fresh look at Scriptures. This book is a real and balanced scriptural teaching that will ha ve you learning and laughing at the same time! God has more for y ou than you ve ever imagined. Determine today to saturate yoursel f in His presence and experience exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask or think! Editorial Reviews About the Author Jesse Duplantis is a dynamic evangelist who has traveled througho ut the world since 1978 preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is the founder of Jesse Duplantis Ministries (JDM), which since i ts inception has been using every available voice to invade the e arth with God's love. JDM has its International Headquarters in D estrehan, Louisiana and additional offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. A favorite program for many seeking to know more a bout God, Jesse Duplantis' weekly television program has grown mi raculously over the years and currently reaches over 106 million households in the USA, with the potential to reach 2.9 billion pe ople worldwide. Jesse believes that TV is an incredible tool for the Lord Jesus Christ and he is seizing every opportunity availab le to use it to populate Heaven. His television broadcast is aire d in 391 countries and JDM satellite reaches every inch of planet earth. Jesse says, We are redefining the word broadcast to mean every way we can broadcast our weekly program throughout the eart h through TV, Internet, Social Media, and even more to come. In 1 997, he and his wife, the Reverend Cathy Duplantis, founded Coven ant Church, a local outreach of JDM on the International Headquar ters property in Destrehan, Louisiana, a suburb in the New Orlean s area. In recognition of his many years of effectively sharing G od's message of salvation through Jesus Christ to the world, Jess e Duplantis was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity degree from Oral Roberts University in 1999. Today, Jesse Duplantis is o ne of the most unique and beloved ministers of our generation. He not only shares his memorable mix of strong, biblical preaching and hilarious life lessons through His television program, but al so through evangelistic meetings in churches and convention cente rs, local church outreaches, books that have been translated in m any languages, magazines, the web, social media, and his many ins pirational audio/visual teaching resources. Jesse Duplantis is sp reading the Gospel of Jesus in a way that is reaching people and changing lives, one soul at a time. Known throughout the world fo r his joy and his exuberant, evangelistic spirit, Jesse Duplantis is often told that he is the only preacher my husband and kids w ill listen to! Why is that? It's not just because Jesse is funny, and it's not just because Jesse is real. People listen because J esse Duplantis is a true evangelist and revivalist. It's the anoi nting of Jesus Christ on the evangelist to reach the unreachable, and it's the anointing of Jesus Christ on the revivalist to reki ndle the fire in believers. People listen because they need the a nointing of Jesus and Jesus is the message that Jesse Duplantis p reaches. For more than thirty-four years now, Jesse Duplantis has had one vision, one goal and one mission: World Evangelism. It i s his mission to reach every soul of the 7 billion people that no w inhabit the earth, making sure that each one has an opportunity to know the real Jesus approachable, personable, compassionate, and full of joy the way that he knows Jesus. ., Harrison House Inc, 2012, 2, Harcourt Paperbacks. Good. 7.98 x 5.3 x 1.08 inches. Paperback. 2004. 396 pages. Ex-library. Cover worn<br>Carnegie Medal Winner, Unite d Kingdom Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner One of TIME Magazin e's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time  Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Wee kly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union. Sixte en-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glen more, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned bod y is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters coul d reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An Ameri can Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortle ssly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original. Includes a reader's guid e and an interview with the author. Editorial Reviews Review St arred Review This is a breathtaking tale, complex and often earth y ... Donnelly's characters ring true to life, and the meticulous ly detailed setting forms a vivid backdrop to this finely crafted story. --School Library Journal Starred Review ... (an) ambitio us, beautifully written coming-of-age story ... Many teens will c onnect with Mattie's fierce yearning for independence and for sto ries, like her own, that are frank, messy, complicated and inspir ing. --Booklist A Northern Light is a quintessential coming-of-a ge story ... exceptionally well told. Honest and unflinching in i ts portrayal of loss, poverty, racism, and pregnancy, it nonethel ess avoids melodrama and polemic. --Christian Science Monitor Ab out the Author JENNIFER DONNELLY is the author of a novel for adu lt readers, The Tea Rose, and a picture book, Humble Pie. For A N orthern Light, her first teen novel, she drew on stories she hear d from her grandmother while growing up in upstate New York. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permiss ion. All rights reserved. When summer comes to the North Woods, t ime slows down. And some days it stops altogether. The sky, gray and lowering for much of the year, becomes an ocean of blue, so v ast and brilliant you can't help but stop what you're doing-pinni ng wet sheets to the line maybe, or shucking a bushel of corn on the back steps-to stare up at it. Locusts whir in the birches, co axing you out of the sun and under the boughs, and the heat still s the air, heavy and sweet with the scent of balsam. As I stand here on the porch of the Glenmore, the finest hotel on all of Big Moose Lake, I tell myself that today-Thursday, July 12, 1906-is such a day. Time has stopped, and the beauty and calm of this per fect afternoon will never end. The guests up from New York, all i n their summer whites, will play croquet on the lawn forever. Old Mrs. Ellis will stay on the porch until the end of time, rapping her cane on the railing for more lemonade. The children of docto rs and lawyers from Utica, Rome, and Syracuse will always run thr ough the woods, laughing and shrieking, giddy from too much ice c ream. I believe these things. With all my heart. For I am good a t telling myself lies. Until Ada Bouchard comes out of the doorw ay and slips her hand into mine. And Mrs. Morrison, the manager's wife, walks right by us, pausing at the top of the steps. At any other time, she'd scorch our ears for standing idle; now she doe sn't seem to even know we're here. Her arms cross over her chest. Her eyes, gray and troubled, fasten on the dock. And the steamer tied alongside it. That's the Zilpha, ain't it, Mattie? Ada whi spers. They've been dragging the lake, ain't they? I squeeze her hand. I don't think so. I think they were just looking along the shoreline. Cook says they probably got lost, that couple. Couldn 't find their way back in the dark and spent the night under some pines, that's all. I'm scared, Mattie. Ain't you? I don't answ er her. I'm not scared, not exactly, but I can't explain how I fe el. Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every one in the We bster's International Dictionary of the English Language, but I s till have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right no w I want a word that describes the feeling you get-a cold, sick f eeling deep down inside-when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it . And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. An d that you will never again be quite the same person you were. I imagine it's the feeling Eve had as she bit into the apple. Or H amlet when he saw his father's ghost. Or Jesus as a boy, right af ter someone sat him down and told him his pa wasn't a carpenter a fter all. What is the word for that feeling? For knowledge and f ear and loss all mixed together? Frisdom? Dreadnaciousness? Malbo minance? Standing on that porch, under that flawless sky, with b ees buzzing lazily in the roses and a cardinal calling from the p ines so sweet and clear, I tell myself that Ada is a nervous litt le hen, always worrying when there's no cause. Nothing bad can ha ppen at the Glenmore, not on such a day as this. And then I see Cook running up from the dock, ashen and breathless, her skirts i n her hands, and I know that I am wrong. Mattie, open the parlor ! she shouts, heedless of the guests. Quick, girl! I barely hear her. My eyes are on Mr. Crabb, the Zilpha's engineer. He is comi ng up the path carrying a young woman in his arms. Her head lolls against him like a broken flower. Water drips from her skirt. O h, Mattie, look at her. Oh, jeezum, Mattie, look, Ada says, her h ands twisting in her apron. Sssh, Ada. She got soaked, that's al l. They got lost on the lake and...and the boat tipped and they s wam to shore and she...she must've fainted. Oh, dear Lord, Mrs. Morrison says, her hands coming up to her mouth. Mattie! Ada! Wh y are you standing there like a pair of jackasses? Cook wheezes, heaving her bulky body up the steps. Open the spare room, Mattie. The one off the parlor. Pull the shades and lay an old blanket o n the bed. Ada, go fix a pot of coffee and some sandwiches. There 's a ham and some chicken in the icebox. Shift yourselves! There are children in the parlor playing hide-and-seek. I chase them o ut and unlock the door to a small bedroom used by stage drivers o r boat captains when the weather's too bad to travel. I realize I 've forgotten the blanket and run back to the linen closet for it . I'm back in the room snapping it open over the bare ticking jus t as Mr. Crabb comes in. I've brought a pillow and a heavy quilt, too. She'll be chilled to the bone, having slept out all night i n wet clothing. Mr. Crabb lays her down on the bed. Cook stretch es her legs out and tucks the pillow under her head. The Morrison s come in. Mr. Sperry, the Glenmore's owner, is right behind them . He stares at her, goes pale, and walks out again. I'll fetch a hot water bottle and some tea and...and brandy, I say, looking a t Cook and then Mrs. Morrison and then a painting on the wall. An ywhere and everywhere but at the girl. Should I do that? Should I get the brandy? Hush, Mattie. It's too late for that, Cook says . I make myself look at her then. Her eyes are dull and empty. H er skin has gone the yellow of muscatel wine. There is an ugly ga sh on her forehead and her lips are bruised. Yesterday she'd sat by herself on the porch, fretting the hem of her skirt. I'd broug ht her a glass of lemonade, because it was hot outside and she lo oked peaked. I hadn't charged her for it. She looked like she did n't have much money. Behind me, Cook badgers Mr. Crabb. What abo ut the man she was with? Carl Grahm? No sign of him, he says. No t yet, leastways. We got the boat. They'd tipped it, all right. I n South Bay. I'll have to get hold of the family, Mrs. Morrison says. They're in Albany. No, that was only the man, Grahm, Cook says. The girl lived in South Otselic. I looked in the register. Mrs. Morrison nods. I'll ring the operator. See if she can conne ct me with a store there, or a hotel. Or someone who can get a me ssage to the family. What on earth will I say? Oh dear! Oh, her p oor, poor mother! She presses a handkerchief to her eyes and hurr ies from the room. She'll be making a second call before the day 's out, Cook says. Ask me, people who can't swim have no business on a lake. Too confident, that fellow, Mr. Morrison says. I ask ed him could he handle a skiff and he told me yes. Only a darn fo ol from the city could tip a boat on a calm day... He says more, but I don't hear him. It feels like there are iron bands around m y chest. I close my eyes and try to breathe deeply, but it only m akes things worse. Behind my eyes I see a packet of letters tied with a pale blue ribbon. Letters that are upstairs under my mattr ess. Letters that I promised to burn. I can see the address on th e top one: Chester Gillette, 171_2 Main Street, Cortland, New Yor k. Cook fusses me away from the body. Mattie, pull the shades li ke I told you to, she says. She folds Grace Brown's hands over he r chest and closes her eyes. There's coffee in the kitchen. And s andwiches, she tells the men. Will you eat something? We'll take something with us, Mrs. Hennessey, if that's all right, Mr. Morr ison says. We're going out again. Soon as Sperry gets the sheriff on the phone. He's calling Martin's, too. To tell 'em to keep an eye out. And Higby's and the other camps. Just in case Grahm mad e it to shore and got lost in the woods. His name's not Carl Gra hm. It's Chester. Chester Gillette. The words burst out of me bef ore I can stop them. How do you know that, Mattie? Cook asks. Th ey are all looking at me now-Cook, Mr. Morrison, and Mr. Crabb. I...I heard her call him that, I guess, I stammer, suddenly afrai d. Cook's eyes narrow. Did you see something, Mattie? Do you kno w something you should tell us? What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never tau ght me that? frac o tious My youngest sister, Beth, who is five , will surely grow up to be a riverman-standing upstream on the d am, calling out warnings to the men below that the logs are comin g down. She has the lungs for it. It was a spring morning. End o f March. Not quite four months ago, though it seems much longer. We were late for school and there were still chores to do before we left, but Beth didn't care. She just sat there ignoring the co rnmeal mush I'd made her, bellowing like some opera singer up fro m Utica to perform at one of the hotels. Only no opera singer eve r sang Hurry Up, Harry. Least not as far as I know. So it's hurr y up, Harry, and Tom or Dick or Joe, And you may take the pail, boys, and for the water go. In the middle of the splashing, the cook will dinner cry, And you'd ought to see them hurry up for f ear they'd lose their pie... Beth, hush now and eat your mush, I scolded, fumbling her hair into a braid. She didn't mind me, tho ugh, for she wasn't singing her song to me or to any of us. She w as singing to the motionless rocker near the stove and the batter ed fishing creel hanging by the shed door. She was singing to fil l all the empty places in our house, to chase away the silence. M ost mornings I didn't mind her noise, but that morning I had to t alk to Pa about something, something very important, and I was al l nerves. I wanted it peaceful for once. I wanted Pa to find ever ything in order and everyone behaving when he came in, so he woul d be peaceable himself and well-disposed to what I had to say. T here's blackstrap molasses, squaw buns as hard as rock, Tea that 's boiled in an old tin pail and smells just like your sock. The beans they are sour, and the porridge thick... ., Harcourt Paperbacks, 2004, 2.5, Publications International, January 2008. Spiral. Used - Good. Spiral bound in hardcover boards., Publications International, 2.5, HarperCollins. Good. 111 x 178mm. Paperback. 1995. 464 pages. Cover worn<br>The new international bestselling thrill er from the master of the genre explores the threat of organised crime in Russia. Craig Thomas is the author of the huge bestselle rs Firefox, Firefox Down, and Winter Hawk. Editorial Reviews Fr om Booklist Except to the white hats who track the black hat in t his post^-cold war spy story, the identity of the malevolent geni us is clear. He is ruthless ex-KGB officer Turgenev, who stifles inquiries into his lucrative scam--trading Russian nuclear techni cians for Iranian heroin--with gunfire and booby-trap bombs. The murderous action begins in the Siberian natural-gas town of Novyy Urengoy, where an American executive in Turgenev's front company is found dead. The same happens to another exec in America, but the assassins botch the job by mistakenly taking out the sister o f ex-CIA officer John Lock, who becomes enraged. Turned vengeful angel, Lock pursues Turgenev and eludes his agents; his luck hold s all the way to Novyy Urengoy, where in the meantime and indepen dently, an incorruptible Russian detective has been dodging bulle ts in his investigation of the first murder. Stronger as action t han as suspense, this should engage readers of the author's Playi ng with Cobras (1993). Gilbert Taylor --This text refers to the c assette edition. From the Publisher From the bestselling author of Playing with Cobras comes a mesmerizing thriller that races be tween Washington DC and the oil fields of Siberia, exposing a sch eme catastrophic to the burgeoning commercial relationship betwee n the U.S. and the new Russia. --This text refers to the cassette edition. From Publishers Weekly Combining Russian detectives, I ranian spies, Vietnamese drug smugglers and a grief-stricken Amer ican hero, Thomas (Firefox) comes up a winner with his 13th novel . With his usual clarity and energy, he sets two plot lines in mo tion in the opening scenes: in Russia, local police discover the corpse of an American employee of Grainger-Turgenev, a joint vent ure in Siberia; in America, Billy Grainger of Grainger Technologi es and his wife, Beth, are murdered in their home. Although the A merican deaths look like the work of robbers, Beth's grieving bro ther, ex-CIA agent John Lock, soon discovers that Grainger's prof its, and Billy's lifestyle, are due to a heroin-smuggling ring th at dates back to Billy's service as a CIA agent in Vietnam. Back in Russia, the local cops doggedly uncover evidence that Grainger -Turgenev is involved in a unique kind of drug-smuggling operatio n. As the Russian cops stir up enough waves to make themselves th e target of retaliation by the smugglers and their allies in the Russian intelligence services, Lock must survive long enough to j ourney to Siberia, join forces with the police and avenge the dea th of his sister. Readers may be way ahead of Lock in figuring ou t the identity of the chief villain, but this lapse is more than made up for by Thomas's skill in mixing the grittiness of a polic e procedural with the high-concept tension of a spy thriller, and by the novel's exciting final third, a brilliantly executed chas e sequence set in a Siberian blizzard. Copyright 1995 Reed Busin ess Information, Inc. --This text refers to the cassette edition. About the Author Craig Thomas is married and lives with his wif e and two tortoiseshell cats in Staffordshire. His interests incl ude cricket, gardening and music, especially classical music and jazz. He is also interested in philosophy and political theory (h is collection of essays, 'There to Here', is published by Fontana Press). --This text refers to the cassette edition. ., HarperCollins, 1995, 2.5, Orion Publishing. Good. 6.02 x 1.06 x 9.17 inches. Paperback. 2007. 400 pages. Cover worn<br>It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and l ate in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is sim ply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murder ed in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking t o expand its interests. And as Rebus's investigation gains ground , someone brutally assaults a local gangster with whom he has a l ong history. Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far? Editorial Reviews From Publi shers Weekly Insp. John Rebus has just 10 days to solve the appar ently motiveless murder of Alexander Todorov, an expatriate Russi an poet, before he reaches 60 and mandatory retirement in Edgar-w inner Rankin's rewarding 17th novel to feature the Edinburgh dete ctive (after The Naming of the Dead). When the dogged Rebus and D et. Sgt. Siobhan Clarke look into the crime, they find an array o f baffling conspiracies involving Russian businessmen, Scottish b ankers and local politicians pushing for an independent Scotland. A second murder, of a man who'd taped one of Todorov's poetry re adings, ensures the case gets extra resources, and Rebus's own in terest is whetted by the possible involvement of Edinburgh crime boss Big Ger Cafferty. Clever, insightful prose more than compens ates for the byzantine plot. There's an appropriately wistful ton e to this final entry in the series. Fans will miss Rebus and won der what on earth he'll do in retirement. (Sept.) Copyright ® Re ed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rig hts reserved. Review In the Rebus novels he's provided a portrai t of his chosen city that's as rich, detailed and loving as any t hat any crime writer working today has given us of any city in th e world. . . . This has been one of the best police procedural se ries ever written. (Washington Post Patrick Anderson) About the Author Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winne r of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fictio n and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotla nd, with his wife and their two sons. From Bookmarks Magazine Th is nostalgic farewell for the aging, rebellious, and popular Rebu s raised an all-consuming question for critics: is this really th e end to the beloved detective, or will he return? The cliffhange r ending, as well as the general belief that Rankin would never g ive up his adored character, suggests that Rebus could make a com eback. Exit Music does leave the door open for more Rebus stories as well as a series featuring Siobhan, who has become more of a presence in each novel, notes the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Eit her way, the novel, framed by the fight for an independent Scotla nd and another labyrinthine case, is a fitting end to Rebus's car eer. A few clichés are unavoidable for this prolific author, and a slow start bothered some critics. Still, most agree with the Ne w Yorker: Rankin's work is crime fiction at its most consuming, c erebral best. Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC From Audio File Detective Inspector John Rebus has 10 days until retirement when Russian poet Alexander Todorov is discovered beaten to death after a public reading. Rebus and his partner, Detective Siobhan Clarke, investigate. James Macpherson's Scots accents are varied and mellifluous. Rebus's burr is thick while Clark's accent is l ighter and more crisp. Macpherson rolls his rs and flattens his v owels as the speakers shift from polished, barely accented Edinbu rgh politicians and bankers to gruff Russian diplomats. Sharp-ton gued Rebus and strong-willed Clarke snap at each other while hunt ing down clues that unravel the poet's life. At the same time, th ey keep running into thick-accented underworld criminals bent on destroying Rebus's reputation before he retires. Macpherson's own mild Scots accent provides a soothing interlude from the thick b rogues that require attentive listening. M.K. ® AudioFile 2009, P ortland, Maine From Booklist *Starred Review* Twilight is the op erative word for UK crime fiction this fall. First, John Harvey b rings back the great Charlie Resnick (Cold in Hand), only to leav e the Nottingham inspector slouching toward retirement with a new tragedy to bear. And now Ian Rankin hands a gold watch to the ev er-curmudgeonly John Rebus. With only a few days until he's offic ially retired, Rebus isn't going gently into any good nights, tho ugh he's not above feeling a bit maudlin: Ciggies, booze, and a l ittle night music. What else did he have? Fortunately, he has one last meaty case--the murder of a dissident Russian poet, passing through Edinburgh on a speaking tour. There's much more to it th an that, of course, and soon enough Rebus smells a wholesale cove r-up involving a group of Russian businessmen being courted by th e city's power elite. Also in the mix is Rebus' longtime nemesis (and ironic alter ego), crime boss Big Ger Caverty, who faces his own kind of twilight. Rankin hits every note on the nose here, f rom the mixed emotions of Rebus' longtime partner Siobhan Clarke, eager for promotion yet reluctant to see her mentor edging towar d mortality, to Rebus' bullheaded insistence on going out the way he came in, mistrusting teamwork in all its guises, or, as Siobh an describes his career, decades of bets hedged, lines crossed, a nd rules broken. The joy of a Rebus novel has always been revelin g in those broken rules and crossed lines. What is the appeal of character-driven crime fiction, you ask? Watching Rebus do his jo b and stick it to every company man (or woman) who gets in his wa y. --Bill Ott ., Orion Publishing, 2007, 2.5, Grand Central Publishing. Good. 4.25 x 1.13 x 7.5 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 2012. 496 pages. Cover worn<br>In his fierce search for a new case, Det ective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DN A evidence -- and a political conspiracy that could destroy the L os Angeles Police Department. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder ma tches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old ki ller or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Cri me Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are cal led to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman I rvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chate au Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that H arry handle the investigation. Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspi racy that goes back into the dark history of the police departmen t. Editorial Reviews Review PRAISE FOR THE REVERSAL: Each of h is books is so much more than the sum of its parts....Connelly wr ites true-to-life fiction about true crime. What makes his crme s tories ring true is that they're never really over.?Janet Maslin, New York Times Thank God for Michael Connelly....Connelly retai ns his journalistic gifts; his eye for detail is spot on....Taken together, his 22 novels form an indispensible, compelling chroni cle of L.A.?Jonathan Shapiro, Los Angeles Times Mr. Connelly, a former journalist, is a master of mixing realistic details of pol ice work and courtroom procedure with the private feelings and pe rsonal lives of his protagonists, and of building suspense even a s he evokes the somber poetry inherent in battling the dark side. ?Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal Another of Connelly's brilliant Los Angeles crime novels.?Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain Dealer Co nnelly's prose is so smooth that it looks easy....The product of a master fully in command of his craft.?Robin Vidimos, Denver Pos t Connelly knows his way around a police investigation, and he k nows his way around a courtroom. This knowledge makes his stories believable while his writing skills make them come alive....An e xciting writer and one we love to read.?Jackie K. Cooper, Huffing ton Post About the Author Michael Connelly is the author of thir ty-eight previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers Desert Star, The Dark Hours, and The Law of Innocence. His books , which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series , and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty millio n copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who h as won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is t he executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: L egacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California a nd Florida. ., Grand Central Publishing, 2012, 2.5<

2012, ISBN: 9780446556699

Grand Central Publishing. Good. 4.25 x 1.13 x 7.5 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 2012. 496 pages. Cover worn<br>In his fierce search for a new case, Det ective Harry Bosch discovers… Mehr…

Grand Central Publishing. Good. 4.25 x 1.13 x 7.5 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 2012. 496 pages. Cover worn<br>In his fierce search for a new case, Det ective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DN A evidence -- and a political conspiracy that could destroy the L os Angeles Police Department. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder ma tches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old ki ller or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Cri me Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are cal led to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman I rvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chate au Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that H arry handle the investigation. Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspi racy that goes back into the dark history of the police departmen t. Editorial Reviews Review PRAISE FOR THE REVERSAL: Each of h is books is so much more than the sum of its parts....Connelly wr ites true-to-life fiction about true crime. What makes his crme s tories ring true is that they're never really over.?Janet Maslin, New York Times Thank God for Michael Connelly....Connelly retai ns his journalistic gifts; his eye for detail is spot on....Taken together, his 22 novels form an indispensible, compelling chroni cle of L.A.?Jonathan Shapiro, Los Angeles Times Mr. Connelly, a former journalist, is a master of mixing realistic details of pol ice work and courtroom procedure with the private feelings and pe rsonal lives of his protagonists, and of building suspense even a s he evokes the somber poetry inherent in battling the dark side. ?Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal Another of Connelly's brilliant Los Angeles crime novels.?Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain Dealer Co nnelly's prose is so smooth that it looks easy....The product of a master fully in command of his craft.?Robin Vidimos, Denver Pos t Connelly knows his way around a police investigation, and he k nows his way around a courtroom. This knowledge makes his stories believable while his writing skills make them come alive....An e xciting writer and one we love to read.?Jackie K. Cooper, Huffing ton Post About the Author Michael Connelly is the author of thir ty-eight previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers Desert Star, The Dark Hours, and The Law of Innocence. His books , which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series , and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty millio n copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who h as won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is t he executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: L egacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California a nd Florida. ., Grand Central Publishing, 2012, 2.5<

2012, ISBN: 0446556696

[EAN: 9780446556699], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Grand Central Publishing], 496 pages. Cover wornIn his fierce search for a new case, Det ective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780446556699], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Grand Central Publishing], 496 pages. Cover wornIn his fierce search for a new case, Det ective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DN A evidence -- and a political conspiracy that could destroy the L os Angeles Police Department. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder ma tches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old ki ller or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Cri me Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are cal led to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman I rvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chate au Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that H arry handle the investigation. Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspi racy that goes back into the dark history of the police departmen t. Editorial Reviews Review PRAISE FOR THE REVERSAL: Each of h is books is so much more than the sum of its parts.Connelly wr ites true-to-life fiction about true crime. What makes his crme s tories ring true is that they're never really over.?Janet Maslin, New York Times Thank God for Michael Connelly.Connelly retai ns his journalistic gifts; his eye for detail is spot on.Taken together, his 22 novels form an indispensible, compelling chroni cle of L.A.?Jonathan Shapiro, Los Angeles Times Mr. Connelly, a former journalist, is a master of mixing realistic details of pol ice work and courtroom procedure with the private feelings and pe rsonal lives of his protagonists, and of building suspense even a s he evokes the somber poetry inherent in battling the dark side. ?Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal Another of Connelly's brilliant Los Angeles crime novels.?Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain Dealer Co nnelly's prose is so smooth that it looks easy.The product of a master fully in command of his craft.?Robin Vidimos, Denver Pos t Connelly knows his way around a police investigation, and he k nows his way around a courtroom. This knowledge makes his stories believable while his writing skills make them come alive.An e xciting writer and one we love to read.?Jackie K. Cooper, Huffing ton Post About the Author Michael Connelly is the author of thir ty-eight previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers Desert Star, The Dark Hours, and The Law of Innocence. His books , which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series , and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty millio n copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who h as won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is t he executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: L egacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California a nd Florida., Books<

2012, ISBN: 9780446556699

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