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1) The fallen
Author
Language
English
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A good cop, Robbie Brownlaw was thrown from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel and miraculously survived. The traumatic incident left Robbie with a fast-track career in the San Diego P.D.'s Homicide division . . . and a rare neurological condition that enables him to see people's emotional words as colored shapes-green trapezoids of envy, red squares of deception . . .
Another good man lies dead in a blood-splattered Ford Explorer-an ex-cop-turned-ethics...
Author
Series
California century novels volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
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Description
In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey follows newspaper accounts of the stories Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin. She's admonishing them to vote the corrupt and tyrannical PRI out of power. Though Alvaro doubts her divinity, he harbors deep personal and political antipathy to the PRI, even before Lourdes Shuler comes asking him to unite her with her sister Lupe, whom...
Author
Series
California century novels volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (220 pages)
Language
English
Description
The Loud Adios is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German and Mexican Nazis.
Author
Series
California century novels volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (226 pages)
Language
English
Description
Set in the jazz world of the 1950s, the novel features Tom Hickey, the saxophone playing private eye. He tries to clear the name of an old girlfriend, charged with murder after a nightclub fire. The real arsonists reply by kidnapping his wife.
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail...
6) Arriésgate
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Series
Language
Español
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Description
A sus dieciocho anos, Harper habia crecido bajo la disciplina de su padre, marine de profesion. Decidida a vivir la vida a su manera y a experimentar cosas de las que solo habia oido hablar a los marines de la unidad de su padre, se marcho a estudiar a la Universidad de San Diego. Gracias a su nueva companera de habitacion, Harper conocio un mundo de diestas , chicos guapos, familia y emociones. Pero se encontro en una encrucijada al enamorarse con...
Author
Series
California century novels volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (291 pages)
Language
English
Description
While the rest of San Diego deals with the horrors and shortages of World War II, private investigator Tom Hickey is making his fortune moonlighting as half owner of Rudy?s Hacienda, a downtown nightclub. That is, until the club?s young jazz singer Cynthia Moon disappears and business drops precipitously. When Tom goes looking for Cynthia, he discovers her bizarre, tragic and dangerous family and a spiritualist cult led by her mother Venus. Can Hickey...
11) Finnegan's week
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) Large target
Author
Series
Josephine Fuller mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 258 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
13) Floaters
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
14) El acusado
Author
Publisher
Editorial Atla?ntida
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
15) Home is east
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her mother moves out, a ten-year-old Cambodian American girl and her old-fashioned father leave their home in Florida to begin a new life in San Diego, experiencing turmoil and change as they slowly adjust to their new circumstances.
16) Look behind you
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A serial killer is on the loose in San Diego, and he has a most unusual M.O.: With each kill, he leaves behind objects with unclear meanings. Most of the recent killings are centered near Kendra Michaels' home and office, so it comes as no great surprise when the FBI shows up at her door. The investigators soon make a startling discovery: the left-behind objects are actually souvenirs of other unsolved serial murder cases in various U.S. cities....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When a local mob boss calls in an old favor, Frank Machianno, the middle-aged owner of a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront, is forced to return to his old job as a hit man, and discovers that someone from his past wants him dead.
Author
Series
San Diego case files volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Brace yourself for a scorching new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose, where San Diego means sun, surf, sand...and serial killers. Sam Reeves is a kindhearted psychologist who treats court-ordered clients. After one of his earliest patients-a pathological liar-starts revealing plausible new details from a long-unsolved serial murder case, he's compelled to report anonymously to the SDPD tip line, though his attempts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"When fate and tacos bring Ram?n and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them. Ram?n Montez always achieves his goals. Whether that means collecting Ivy League degrees or growing his father's fast-food empire, nothing sets Ram?n off course. So when the sexy se?orita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs off...
20) Seoulmates
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out--the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then a fun senior year with their friends. But then Nate does what everyone else in Hannah's life seems to do--he leaves her, claiming they have nothing in common. He and all her friends are newly obsessed with K-pop and K-dramas, and Hannah is not. After years of trying to embrace the American part and shunning the Korean side of her Korean American identity...
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