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Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in Britis...

Leona Brueger is the still-foxy widow of Sammy Brueger, who left her his fortune and mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Bored, she is dating a B-list movie director and looking to get a little excitement in her newfround freedom. When an esteemed (but broke) art dealer named Nigel Wickland sees the valuable paintings hung on Leona's mansion's walls, he hatches a plan to create replicas and resell the originals at a killing profit. The only proble...

Bestseller Wambaugh's entertaining third Hollywood Station novel (after Hollywood Crows) provides lots of laughs and gasps from all of your favorite characters. There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast -- rather than the best -- in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking ...

Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they're haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch ? shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice.?Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap ? each has his horror story, his bad dream, his nightshriek. He is afraid of his friends ? he is afraid of himself.? ? New York TimesJoseph WambaughHe's the hard-hitting, bestselling writer who conveys the passionate imm...

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the "femme fatale" is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn't th...

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First edition: November 2010"--T.p. verso.

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Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn?t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath."A distinguished 'factual novel.'A fascinating acco...

Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they're haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch ? shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice.?Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap ? each has his horror story, his bad dream, his nightshriek. He is afraid of his friends ? he is afraid of himself.? ? New York TimesJoseph WambaughHe's the hard-hitting, bestselling writer who conveys the passionate imm...

The third novel in Wambaugh's series set in LAPD's Hollywood station. One of the best books of the year.--Stephen King.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Raucous cops, outlaw bikers, and suntanned celebrities collide in a steamy landscape swirling with natural beauty and unnatural death. Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert t...

California's Gold Coast is the home of boat parades, middle-aged women in bikinis, and Winnie Farlowe, a 40-year-old ex-cop with a strong interest in drinking. But when a beautiful and spirited three-time divorce e introduces him to her world of clubs and mansions--and the mystery of her father's death--he soon finds himself running for his life.

A grim look at the ugly underbelly of life as a Hollywood copyIt's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking.

He is a damned good cop-a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner-twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.Praise for The Black Marble "[Joseph] Wambaugh sidesteps all the clichés."-Baltimore Sun "Superb . . . his best book!"-St. Louis Post-Dispatch"First-rate . . . fast, colorful, and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly ...

On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line." Her two children had vanished. The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years. Now, master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh reconstructs the case from its roots, recounting the details, drama, players and pawns in this bizarre crime that shocked th...