Ben H Winters
Author
Series
Last policeman trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Formats
Description
When the Earth is doomed by an imminent asteroid collision, homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about.
3) Golden State
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A veteran of the Speculative Service in an alternate-world California where the law and truth are valued above all else uses his rare authority to question the facts when truth enforcement is manipulated for corrupt purposes.
Author
Series
Last policeman trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Set three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures of Hank Palace. The Concord Police Department is now operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, and Hank is outof a job-until he's hired by a business tycoon to help find the man's estranged son. It isn't long before Hank's missing-person case turns into a murder investigation.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk?still in practice but a shell of his former self?is hired to defend Wesley Keener?s father when he is charged with murder...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
327 pages : map ; 25 cm
Description
"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young Black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known...
Author
Series
Last policeman trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
With just days left before an asteroid collides with Earth, Detective Hank Palace has one last case to solve, locating his missing sister, Nico, but his search leads to a series of shocking revelations.
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Description
Ms. Finkleman is just our boring old music teacher. Or is she? It all starts with a Special Project in Mr. Melville's Social Studies class: Solve a mystery in your own life. For seventh grader Bethesda Fielding, one mystery is too tempting to ignore: Ms. Finkleman. Bethesda is convinced that her mousy Music Fundamentals teacher is hiding a secret life, and she's determined to find out what it is. But no one is prepared for what she learns. Ms. Finkleman...
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Talent Springs Eternal takes place in and around LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, where alumni and friends are planning the twentieth reunion of the class of 1984. The "spirits" of Michael Peters (class of 1966) and Carmen Diaz (class of 1984) appear and observe what is happening at the school, which is in the middle of casting their senior production of West Side Story. After the celebration, "time flies,"...