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Petra Connor Series

This series follows the gripping investigations of a police detective in the vibrant metropolis of Los Angeles. Each installment plunges her into the shadowy underbelly of Hollywood, where she confronts dangerous criminals and intricate plots. Follow her relentless pursuit of justice within the gritty landscape of the entertainment industry.

Billy Straight
Twisted

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  1. 1

    Billy Straight

    • 585 pages
    • 21 hours of reading
    3.9(6512)Add rating

    Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She'd divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy - Billy Straight. He knows he has vital evidence, but he is too scared of being returned to his former existence to come forward. As Billy battles with his conscience, Petra and Stu have plenty of other leads to follow and a dual narrative of stunning complexity and suspense develops until they eventually combine into a single crescendo of tension. Jonathan Kellerman has produced a thriller which is genuinely unputdownable.

    Billy Straight
  2. 2

    Twisted

    • 576 pages
    • 21 hours of reading
    3.9(7285)Add rating

    TWISTED is the second Petra Connor novel and a superb example of Jonathan Kellerman's mastery of the psychological thriller Detective Petra Connor is struggling with a baffling drive-past murder when Isaac Gomez, a young research prodigy, tells her he's found something she might want to see. His theory that there's a connection between six unsolved murders committed in the LAPD area over the past six years, all at around midnight on June 28, seems fanciful at first - but soon the links become clearer. Something evil has managed to conceal itself between the dry pages of the files: a series of killings so meticulously constructed that the mind behind them would have remained invisible without Isaac's sharp probing. And June 28 is just a month away - will Petra be able to stop the murderer from striking again?

    Twisted