Joseph Wambaugh, Little, Brown, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-12950-3
The LAPD's Hollywood Station deals with some of the strangest lawbreakers anywhere, as shown in MWA Grand Master Wambaugh's amusing fourth novel to feature Hollywood Nate Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the series' colorful...
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Joseph Wambaugh. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2610-8
MWA Grand Master Wambaugh ventures into L.A.’s San Pedro district in his highly entertaining fifth novel to feature his Hollywood Station crew (after 2010’s Hollywood Hills). Surfer cops “Flotsam and Jetsam” get their first “intelligence-gathering...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (348p) ISBN 978-0-688-12801-2
Wambaugh ( Fugitive Nights ) is at the top of his form here and probably destined for another visit to the bestseller lists. His cop characters are marvelous as usual, deftly characterized in dialogue, attitude (much of it political this time, as...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-688-09408-9
In this comic and deeply moving story, Wambaugh holds the reader a willing hostage to events in the bibulous, rowdy, daring life of Winston (Winnie) Farlowe. When an injury ends his police career in California's Orange County, Winnie works at odd...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06889-9
The bizarre, seven-year-long case of an Upper Merion, Pa., high school teacher, Susan Reinert, found murdered in 1979, and her two missing children receives masterful treatment from police novelist Wambaugh, who is now building a reputation as a...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author Bantam Books $7.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-56440-2
A San Diego police detective trails a stolen truck full of toxic chemicals; BOMC alternate in cloth. (Aug.)
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author Bantam $7.5 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-28281-8
Wambaugh's latest triumphant venture into true crime turns to Leicestershire, England, and the slayings of two teenagers, killings that were eventually solved through scientist Alec Jeffreys's discovery of genetic fingerprinting. ``As Wambaugh's...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author William Morrow & Company $4.98 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-08617-6
In this latest venture into true crime, Wambaugh ( The Onion Field ; Echoes in the Darkness ) triumphs again. Here he turns to Leicestershire, England, and the slayings of two teenagers, Lynda Mann in 1983, and Dawn Ashworth three years later,...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author Bantam $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-57595-8
Wrote PW, ""the police work is, as always, authentic"" in this thriller involving the America's Cup regatta. (Apr.)
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author . Morrow $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-009527-7
Returning to print after a six-year hiatus, former LAPD detective sergeant and bestselling author Wambaugh (The Onion Field, etc.) focuses on firefighters rather than his usual police beat. It's a surprising switch, but Wambaugh's regular...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author Little, Brown $26.99 (343p) ISBN 978-0-316-02528-7
Gallows humor and the grim realities of street police work coexist uneasily in this less than stellar follow-up to Hollywood Station (2006) from MWA Grand Master Wambaugh. Nathan Weiss, known as Hollywood Nate for his acting ambitions, and his...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-10351-9
A plot to sabotage New Zealand's entry in the America's Cup regatta forms the premise for Wambaugh's latest police thriller, a slow-moving affair that nonetheless features the author's usual rough-and-tumble prose as well as an intriguing...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $22 (336p) ISBN 978-0-688-11128-1
Wambaugh's latest, following The Golden Orange , promises more entertainment than it delivers. The plot centers around PI Breda spok Burrows, a former LAPD detective, and three cops: hard-drinking Lynn Cutter, waiting for approval of his disability...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author , read by Christian Rummel. Hachette Audio $39.98 (
, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $39.98 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-60024-774-3
, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $39.98 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-60024-774-3
For the final and arguably best entry in his Hollywood trilogy (after Hollywood Station
and Hollywood Crows
), Wambaugh takes listeners on “a cops-eye ride along the boulevard of broken dreams” through all manner of police...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author . Little, Brown $26.99 (344p) ISBN 978-0-316-04518-6
Full of glimpses into the workings of low-level tech crime, bestseller Wambaugh's entertaining third “Hollywood station” novel (after Hollywood Crows
) provides lots of laughs and gasps along with a few tender sighs. Trouble ensues...
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Joseph Wambaugh, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (340p) ISBN 978-0-316-06614-3
Wambaugh's outstanding new novel, his first in a decade, is not only a return to form but a return to his LAPD roots. Times have sure changed since the 1970s, the setting for some of Wambaugh's best earlier works such as The New Centurions ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, read by Christian Rummel. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-974-8
Wambaugh once again delves into the life of his quirky LAPD officer, "Hollywood Nate," and the surfer dudes, officers Flotsam and Jetsam. It would be enough to merely follow these cops on their patrol as they encounter all the odd, comic, and at...
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