Lee Goldberg
1) Lost hills
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A video of Deputy Eve Ronin's off-duty arrest of an abusive movie star goes viral, turning her into a popular hero at a time when the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is plagued by scandal. The sheriff, desperate for more positive press, makes Eve the youngest female homicide detective in the department's history. Eve ... and her burned-out, soon-to-retire partner are called to the blood-splattered home of a missing single mother and her two...
2) Gated prey
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles County Sheriff's detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, are running a 24-7 sting in a guard-gated enclave of palatial homes in Calabasas. Their luxury McMansion is a honey trap, set to lure in the violent home invaders terrorizing the community. The trap works, leaving three intruders dead, a body count that nearly includes Eve and Duncan. Eve's bosses are eager to declare the case closed, but there are too...
3) Bone canyon
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a horrific story to tell. Eve tirelessly digs into the past,...
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 11
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Determined to show his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, the outside world, Adrian Monk drugs him with sleeping pills and hits the road in a motor home only to become enmeshed in a murder investigation along the highway.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles' history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of...
6) Movieland
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case ... which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve came to Lost Hills"--
7) Dream town
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 5
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what's real and what's imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty's surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly...
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 1
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunagely, his assistant, Natalie and her daughter let him stay with them, but their home is not up to Monk's standards of cleanliness. While he attempts to put things in order, the death of a dog at the firehouse on the same night as a fatal house fire has lead Monk into a puzzling mystery.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Adrian Monk copes with the conflict between two different female assistants--his former aide, Sharona, who returns after her ne'er-do-well husband is arrested for murder, and his new assistant, Natalie--and finds himself up against a clever killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Captain Leland Stottlemeyer relies on Adrian Monk to solve his most baffling cases, but when the captain is faced with budget cuts, Monk?s fees are one of the expenses he trims. Monk is too compulsive to stop investigating; he resorts to calling in tips under assumed names, infuriating the captain.
But when Stottlemeyer is arrested for murder, he turns to the only detective who can prove his innocence. That is, if Monk can overcome some potentially...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Some people think Hawaii is paradise, but Monk knows that danger, like dirt, lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a fatal blow from a coconut. The police say it fell from a tree, but Monk suspects otherwise. His assistant Natalie isn't exactly thrilled about Monk's latest investigation. It was bad enough Monk followed her on vacation, and now it looks like the vacation is over. Smooth-talking TV psychic Dylan Swift is...
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 15
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that a recent string of accidental deaths and suicides are actually murders, Adrian Monk begins to doubt his detective skills when his chief suspect is killed, a situation that is complicated by his arch nemesis Dale the Whale's escape from prison.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 9
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the California town of Trouble, which is famous for an unsolved train robbery in 1962, Adrian Monk and his assistant, Natalie, investigate the murder of the town museum's watchman.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 7
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On a side trip to France, detective Adrian Monk takes a tour through the Parisian sewers, where he encounters catacombs filled with ancient human remains, including one much more recent skull bearing evidence of murder.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 10
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After he is defrauded of his savings by investment executive Bob Sebes, who is subsequently arrested, and the key witness in the trial ends up dead, Adrian Monk must fight his initial urge to blame Sebes for the murder and is soon on a case fraught with too many questions.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 12
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With help from Monk's agoraphobic brother, his loyal assistant Natalie tackles her own investigation while Adrian Monk tracks a second-hand couch that seems tied to a series of murders. Following a bloody trail, Natalie and Monk soon end up face-to-face with the most ruthless killer they've ever encountered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian Mystery
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
No one likes to come home to a mess--least of all Monk and Natalie. But when they return from an extended stay in New Jersey, Natalie discovers that somebody has been sleeping in her bed. But this Goldilocks isn't asleep. She's dead. And stuffed under the mattress, investigators find marked money from a Federal sting operation. Now Natalie's life is a real mess, and she needs Monk to help clean it up.
Meanwhile, Monk's brother Ambrose is desperate...
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 13
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After a string of arrests cripples the local government, the acting mayor of Summit, New Jersey, who is also the chief of police, turns to Adrian Monk to investigate a series of robberies.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.