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Jonathan Kellerman presents a criminal investigation into an old Cold Case and stroll under the sun of Los Angeles in Serpentine. – Rebecca, give micheel moatti's holywood

“The fire passed in green. Consequently, the four vehicles preceding Galoway continued on their way to Coldwater Canyon Drive, to Studio City, while our man took a tight turn to the right to get involved in Mulholland Drive. However, The decor changed instantly. Similarly, the sudden luxurious residences replaced by stretches of dry bushes and hill flanks folded by drought and punctuated here and there of a few bicoque on stilts. Therefore, When I arrived at the. Similarly, I wondered by what mystery the houses perched on sticks on a steep land remained standing. Moreover, Then I had seen them resist storms and earthquakes. However, In South California, optimism is local fossil fuel ”. Consequently,

Thirty-six years ago. the rebecca, give micheel moatti’s holywood calcined body of Dottie Swoboda, twenty-four, had been found at the bottom of a precipice, a bullet in the head, in the carcass of the Cadillac Eldorado which she led, not far from the crossroads between Mudholland Drive and Laurel Canyon Boulevard, on the territory of Hollywood. His daughter Ellie Baker was then three years old. Today billionaire. after having made a fortune in sports clothes and sold her box, Ellie, who spins straight towards the forties, would like to clarify this death full of mystery.

The case is entrusted to Lieutenant Milo Surgis. of the LAPD, flanked by his lifelong accomplice, the brilliant children’s psychologist Alex Delaware. But thirty-six years later, the file turns out to be miserably empty. No witness to the murder. which took place in the middle of the night, on a portion of the deserted road. No apparent mobile. And a burnt body to the rebecca, give micheel moatti’s holywood ears, which leaves no trace of the aggression.

At the time, several detectives followed one another to investigate this murder. Everyone broke their teeth. Milo. Alex will have to improvise, and pull the slightest thread from an enigma which promises to be tough to elude. At the wheel of a carnated car generously supplied by the LAPD (an Impala Chevrolet “Chou color of Brussels”). our two detectives begin a long investigation rich in false tracks, and spectacular and dizzying twists and turns, around the Cité des Anges.

At the Top Ten of the Californian thriller, two heads have been over dawn since time or almost. Michael Connelly, stationed in West Hollywood thanks to a Harry Bosch still on the breach. And Jonathan Kellerman, of which Serpentine is the thirty-sixth part of the investigations of his stainless shock duo. Both are the champions all categories of a tortuous and sophisticated thriller. rebecca, give micheel moatti’s holywood Both are huge books of books worldwide. Additionally, Both finally put their playgrounds in majesty, of which they know all the corners: Los Angeles.

In addition to the criminal intrigue. built with a master’s hand by an off-competition specialist, Serpentine is a furious walk under the sun of a long urban trip, in a car with two motivated detectives, but beautifully ugly back. In short, an ideal thriller for summer.

Philippe Blanchet

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