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Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty
Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorGotham Central, Book Four: Corrigan
Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker · 221 pages
Powers: Definitive Collection, Vol. 1
Brian Michael Bendis · 456 pages
Gotham Central, Vol. 2: Half a Life
Greg Rucka · 168 pages
Misterioso
Arne Dahl · 339 pages
Stockholm, milieu des années 1990. Trois gros bonnets de la finance sont retrouvés assassinés. "L'équipe A" du commissaire Hultin, unité spéciale composée de six policiers, mène l'enquête. Pour sa troisième victime, le meurtrier a laissé des indices : une balle fichée dans le mur et une cassette de jazz contenant un enregistrement très rare de Thelonius Monk, Misterioso.
Chew: The Omnivore Edition, Vol. 1
John Layman · 264 pages
Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective - as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit and why. He's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the pl
Powers, Vol. 1: Who Killed Retro Girl?
Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming · 200 pages
Reveals the origin of many Powers characters, focusing on Detective Christian Walker, and further expands the backgrounds of other characters who were previously undeveloped. Includes the textual script with artist sketches, a black-and-white sketchbook, and a color gallery.
2nd Chance
James Patterson, Andrew Gross · 390 pages
A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. T
Top 10, Vol. 1
Alan Moore · 208 pages
Batman: The Long Halloween
Jeph Loeb · 369 pages
Unaware of being watched, Batman pursues villains including Killer Croc and Poison Ivy, and discovers that Poison Ivy's latest plan will require that he ally himself with Catwoman in order to defeat his old friend Superman.
Death Comes for the Fat Man
Reginald Hill · 416 pages
There was no sign of life. But not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen. Everybody knew that. Therein lay half his power. Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Caught in the blast of a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalz
The Fifth Elephant
Terry Pratchett · 460 pages
Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, rub
The Cold Cold Ground
Adrian McKinty · 320 pages
Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Tsugumi Ohba · 200 pages
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legen
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo · 240 pages
Miami Blues
Charles Willeford · 208 pages
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would wan
Relic
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 468 pages
As taken from the author website (www.prestonchild.com): Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite o
Fell, Feral City
Warren Ellis
Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hi
Nailbiter, Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood
Joshua Williamson · 144 pages
"Where do serial killers come from?" and why has Buckaroo, Oregon given birth to sixteen of the most vile serial killers in the world? NSA Agent Nicholas Finch needs to solve that mystery in order to save his friend, and he'll have to team up with the infamous Edward "Nailbiter" Warren to do it.
Eight Black Horses
Ed McBain, Mark T. Sullivan · 270 pages
This compelling story of death and retribution skillfully combines the day-to-day action of a pricinct station house with the tense drama of the search for the Deaf Man, a particularly abhorrent villain.
The Man With a Load of Mischief
Martha Grimes · 296 pages
Inspector Richard Jury mysteries #1 The quaint, many-hued cottages lining Long Piddleton's High Street were capped with new snow and glittering in the morning sunshine. Pretty enough to be a Christmas card, the hamlet was, instead, the scene of two singularly gruesome murders. Martha Grimes's delightfully British novel of detection introduces Inspector Richard Jury, an affable, pragmatic inves