Top 10 Los Gatos Library Mystery Books

1. Nine Dragons, Michael Connelly

From the streets of L.A. to the shimmering skyline of Hong Kong, Harry Bosch must find his missing daughter.

2. The Brass Verdict, Michael Connelly

Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in Michael Connelly's biggest novel ever.

3. Port Mortuary, Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's 18th Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. 

4. The Border Lords, T. Jefferson Parker

ATF agent Sean Ozburn is deep undercover supporting the sicarios of the Baja Cartel when he suddenly goes completely dark, his only communications being the haunting digital videos he sends to his desperately worried wife, Seliah.

5. City of Bones, Michael Connelly

On New Year's Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone—a bone that the dog's owner, a doctor, feels certain is a human bone.   
Bosch investigates, and that chance discovery leads him to a shallow grave in the 

6. When the Thrill is Gone, Walter Mosley

The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard, even for the detective designated as “a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe” (The Boston Globe) and “the perfect heir to Easy Rawlins” (Toronto Globe and Mail). 

7. Night Vision, Randy Wayne White

A lot is going on in Red Citrus trailer park, known locally as Little Guadalajara and inhabited principally by illegal laborers. The park manager and his kinky girlfriend as bodybuilder narcissists with some pretty unsavory sidelines. 

8. Dead Like You, Peter James

The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year’s Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims’ shoes are taken by the offender . . .

9. Fadeaway Girl, Martha Grimes

Emma Graham, amateur sleuth and cub reporter for the weekly Conservative newspaper, has has survived an attempt on her life and solved one crime in Spirit Lake.

10. Mr. Monk on the Road, Lee Goldberg

In the midst of a financial crisis, the SFPD fires Adrian Monk as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings for a while. Then Natalie learns that Monk invested his money some time ago with Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investments, who's just been arrested on charges of orchestrating a massive $100 million fraud. All of Sebes' clients-including Monk-are completely wiped out.