Connie Dial, Author . Permanent $28 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57962-184-1
Dial, a former LAPD Hollywood Division commanding officer, puts 27 years of experience and a lot of heart into her gritty, sporadically powerful debut. Sgt. Mike Turner, a principled cop working in Internal Affairs, thinks he's lost his fire...
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Connie Dial, Author . Permanent $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57962-200-8
LAPD internal affairs detective Mike Turner and a few colleagues risk lives and careers to follow the spirit, if not the letter, of the law in Dial's competent follow-up to Internal Affairs
(2009). Turner is an important cog in a squad that...
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Connie Dial. Permanent, $28 (296p) ISBN 978-1-57962-274-9
Dial’s detail-laden third procedural (after 2010’s The Broken Blue Line) features a new protagonist, Capt. Josie Corsino, the head of the LAPD’s Hollywood division. When 17-year-old movie actress Hillary Dennis, whose star was already on the descent,
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Connie Dial. Permanent, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57962-334-0
In Dial’s workmanlike second mystery featuring LAPD Capt. Josie Corsino (after 2012’s Fallen Angels), Corsino faces a potential powder keg in her department. While checking out a likely false alarm as a member of a burglary task force, Sgt. Kyle...
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Connie Dial. Permanent, $29 (296p) ISBN 978-1-57962-369-2
In Dial’s competent third Josie Corsino mystery (after 2013’s Dead Wrong), a transvestite murder victim found near a sleazy hotel, the Regency Arms, turns out to be Patrick/Patricia Kessler, chief of staff for L.A. city councilman Jeff Flowers. Next
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Connie Dial. Permanent, $29.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57962-402-6
Set in Los Angeles in 1971, Dial’s engrossing fourth Josie Corsino mystery (after 2014’s Unnatural Murder) charts the beginning of Josie’s career with the LAPD. Three years after graduating from the police academy, Josie has been working for two...
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Connie Dial. Permanent, $29 (280p) ISBN 978-1-57962-494-1
Former LAPD detective Nino Angelo, the hero of this absorbing if downbeat police procedural from LAPD veteran Dial (Set the Night on Fire), has struggled to develop a relationship with his 12-year-old son, Matt, since a gunshot wound forced him to...
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Connie Dial. Permanent, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57962-529-0
In Dial’s solid fifth Josie Corsino mystery (after 2016’s Set the Night on Fire), the LAPD captain has a lot on her plate at the Hollywood police station, including mentoring troubled Sgt. Dan “Mac” McSweeney, chasing rogue ex-cop Marvin Wright, and
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