los angeles (ca)

Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living on hard work, companionship, and dreams in the pink house by the sea until a foreboding ship arrives and all start having strange visions of destruction and violence, and then, trancelike, they head for the ship and their new battles, with Pen using Virgil's epic Aeneid as her guide.

Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to trackk down his late partner's killer.

In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "block box," the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together.

After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long list of curanderas - Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

Having left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a doctor whose death is linked to the theft of a dangerous radioactive substance that may be part of a terrorist plot.

With her neighborhood in decline following the Watts riots and the devastation of Reaganomics and her family divided by secrets, violence, and identity crises, Camille Broussard hopes to use her love of family and of cooking to bring everyone back together by opening a restaurant and enlisting her family to help get the enterprise on its feet.

When a serial bomber kidnaps a young girl and plans to unleash his incendiary powers on live TV, he ignites white-hot rage--and a mother's revenge.