Kittling: Books

  First Line: There are some things you need to know before I start telling you this incredible, improbable, but absolutely true story . Str...

  First Line: The family gathered in the visitor lot: Jorge Ochoa's mother and brother and me .   After getting a wrongfully convicted m...

  First Line: Bosch was in cell 3 of the old San Fernando jail, looking through files from one of the Esme Tavares boxes, when a heads-up te...

  First Line: The drum solo had gone on so long that it seemed to be taking place in geological time, and there was no indication that it wa...

  First Line: It was supposed to rain for real and that would have put a damper on the annual rain of lead .   New Year's Eve finds René...

  First Line: The Arctic air had brought bitter cold to the Colorado prairie .   LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his K-9 partner Sirius li...

  First Line: Turns out vaudeville doesn't prepare you for Hollywood .   Jessie Beckett has a new name, and she's working hard to ma...

First Line: Rose was always there, even while I was being born .   For twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her family, the happy, prosperous world t...

  First Line: They charged from the cover of the elephant grass toward the LZ, five of them swarming the slick on both sides, one among them...

  First Line: She had to do it .   Grayson Sykes's very first assignment as a fully fledged private investigator is the missing persons ...

First Line: "Do you know what Abraham Lincoln said after a six-day drunk?" Jimenez said . Isaiah Quintabe-- IQ for short-- is...

First Line: Bosch arrived late and had to park on a cemetery lane far from the gravesite . Jack Thompson was Harry's mentor when Ha...

First Line: Angie's growling awakened her . LAPD Detective Michael Gideon's K-9 partner Sirius rescues a lost dog from a pack o...

First Line: Wrong Pauley made sure no one was around before he started down the alleyway toward his burrow . Even by the LAPD's sta...

First Line: If destiny arrives at times by chance and at other times by choice, for me it came through some of each . This memoir of re...

First Line: A young blond woman ran along a quiet Bel-Air street at dusk . With the right combination of intelligence, looks, and skill...

First Line: Even before I pressed down hard on the gas, Sirius was aware that something was up . Los Angeles police officer Michael Gid...

First Line: The patrol officers had left the front door open . Detective Renée Ballard's partner is on bereavement leave, and since...

First Line: By way of a prelude, a few words about the dark . If Junior Bender and his girlfriend Ronnie weren't so desperate for c...

First Line: Evan's twelve-year-old body is stiff in the cushy passenger seat of the black sedan as he is driven in silence . If you...