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Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of writing fictionFor ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer’s Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer’s block and experimenti...

Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of writing fictionFor ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer’s Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer’s block and experimenti...

Joseph Wambaugh returns to glamorous Palm Springs and its ever-mysterious desert to give readers a suspense novel rich in astonishing plot twists, fascinating characters, and the penetrating humor for which he is famous. Three mismatched people--one of whom is a police officer--become involved in the trail of an elusive and dangerous fugitive on a secret mission.

No one portrays crime and cops with the outrageous humor and vibrant color of Joseph Wambaugh. Now, in a timely new novel, the bestselling author sends an unforgettable trio on a mission to make sense of a seemingly irrational conspiracy involving deadly toxic waste and a theft of U.S. Navy goods. A master of the skewering one-liner, and at that awkward age between mid-life crisis and catastrophe, San Diego police detective Finbar Brendan Finn...

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In this sequel to the international bestseller HOLLYWOOD STATION Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tightly plotted and darkly funny ride through Los Angeles's epicenter with a cast of flawed cops and eccentric lowlifes they won't soon forget. A masterly novel from master of modern crime writing.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLSER • "This is vintage Wambaugh, a rollicking and ribald tale, laced with black humor."-The San Diego Union-TribuneHarbor cops Fortney and Leeds have a good time patrolling San Diego's Mission Bay, scopingout body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who've run aground, and haulingin the occasional floater.But now their days are anything but typical, for theAmerica's Cup regattas have come to town ...

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Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD detective, multiple New York Times best-seller, and MWA Grand Master, is known as "the father of the modern police novel" and now, in Harbor Nocturne, he has produced one of the outstanding books of the year. Some LAPD characters from the acclaimed Hollywood Station series are here: the surfer cops known as "Flotsam and Jetsam, " aspiring actor "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, and young Britney Small, along with new mem...