<div>A &ldquo;darkly comic, gritty look at life on the streets&rdquo; from the former LAPD detective and multiple New York Times bestseller (Publishers Weekly). In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world&rsquo;s busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed, as their love develops among the myriad cops and criminals who occupy the harbor. Suspense and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor, with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide. Their paths will cross with many colorful characters introduced in Wambaugh&rsquo;s acclaimed bestselling Hollywood Station series: the surfer cops known as &ldquo;Flotsam and Jetsam&rdquo;, aspiring actor &ldquo;Hollywood Nate&rdquo; Weiss, young Britney Small, along with new members of the midwatch. Humor, love, suspense and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor, with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide.</div>

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Harbor Nocturne

<div>A New York Times&ndash;bestselling police thriller by the author of Harbor Nocturne: Two LAPD detectives look into the murder of a Hollywood studio boss. It&rsquo;s the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking. Hilarious at times, heartbreaking at others, this book was likened by theNew York Daily News to a &ldquo;one-two combination that leaves the reader reeling.&rdquo; </div>

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The Glitter Dome

<div>A toxic spill causes a lethal chain reaction for a San Diego cop in this &ldquo;very funny&rdquo; New York Times bestseller by the author of The Choirboys (Kirkus Reviews). Fin Finnegan, a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor heading straight for a midlife meltdown, is assigned a routine truck theft that turns into a toxic chemical spill, setting off a bizarre chain reaction of death and murder on both sides of the Mexican border. Fin is forced to team up with Nell Salter, a sexy female investigator, as well as an equally fetching US Navy investigator who wants to learn all that Fin can teach her&mdash;and that&rsquo;s saying a lot. The New York Times Book Review called it &ldquo;a frolic, a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book.&rdquo; And Entertainment Weekly said, &ldquo;superbly crafted and paced, deliciously funny, but fundamentally, as always, deadly serious.&rdquo;</div>

Finnegan's Week

<div>Two LAPD cops stumble into trouble during a search for a kidnapped dog in this &ldquo;superb&rdquo; New York Times bestseller from the author of Hollywood Station (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the Los Angeles Times called &ldquo;terrifying and romantic,&rdquo; the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. Cosmopolitan called it &ldquo;fast, colorful and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.&rdquo;</div>

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The Black Marble

<div>The hunt forthe most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century&mdash;in this Edgar Award&ndash;winning true crime story that&rsquo;s &ldquo;stranger than fiction&rdquo; (The New York Times). From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the &ldquo;Pillow Pyro,&rdquo; led by one ambitious firefighter. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized law enforcement. However, after being rejected by both the LAPD and LAFD, he settled for a position with the Glendale Fire Department. There, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a fire captain and one of Southern California&rsquo;s best-known and most respected arson investigators. But Orr led another, unseen life, one that included womanizing and an insatiable thirst for recognition. While Orr busted a slew of petty arsonists, there was one serial criminal he could not track down. Nothing was safe from the so-called Pillow Pyro&rsquo;s obsession. Homes, retail stores, and fields of dry brush all went up in flames. His handiwork led to millions of dollars worth of property damage and the deaths of four innocent bystanders. But after years of evading the police, he made a mistake&mdash;one that would turn Orr&rsquo;s life upside down. The Washington Post raves, &ldquo;When [Joseph Wambaugh] talks about the culture of cops versus the culture of firemen, we get no speculation, only hard-earned details.&rdquo; Based on meticulous research, interviews, case records, and thousands of pages of court transcripts, Fire Lover is Wambaugh at his best.</div>

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Harbor Nocturne

The Glitter Dome

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The Black Marble

Fire Lover

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