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Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime. The interview
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document
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I'm not speaking to hear myself talk, Mr. Cronyn. I told you to be quiet. One more interruption and I will have you silenced.
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Big evil. There was no doubt that the same callous malignancy moved through the blood of the shooter here.
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this goes forward it's going to get
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Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
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He didn't understand why he always saw people typing feverishly on their phones. He was sure it was some sort of warning, a sign of the decline
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it
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You're brilliant! Where is she?
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The paying jobs were few and she was often taken advantage of by the leeches who were part of the entertainment industry. But she persevered.
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can give you whatever science
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furnished. In one corner was a baby grand piano that caught my eye.
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humans will sink to the lowest depths if the right opportunity presents itself.
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can't put the gun in
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which is an entry
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In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then it would put the lie to everything else. It would cast him adrift.
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the morning before. Bosch thought
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He knew that in his internal universe, there was a mission etched in a secret language, like drawings on the wall of an ancient cave, that gave him his direction and meaning. It could not be altered and it would always be there to guide him to the right path.
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Okay, well a following sea is the one you have to watch out for. It's the one that comes up behind a vessel. You don't see it coming.
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Michael Connelly |
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Funny, Dad, but my generation is visual. We don't tell people what other people are doing. We show what we're doing. We put up photos.
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Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire.
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Michael Connelly |
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Florida? I'd never been there and all my life I've liked orange juice.
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reached out and yanked on it. The string
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a tunnel entrance.
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At the bottom of the hill, after Boston College, the route passes St. Ignatius Church on the right. It was here that textile worker Doroteo Flores of Guatemala was running down the hill in 1952 when he looked to the church for support. He had hoped that a win at the world's greatest race might help him to find employment or notoriety and allow him to make a better life for himself and his family. With a prayer in his heart, the Roman Cathol..
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me.
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watching the two detectives from the next room.
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Well, if this thing finally hits the radar, you can expect to see him. He wrote a bestselling book on the first go-round. I guarantee he'll be back for the sequel." Rachel thought about the book she had been reading on the plane and that was now in her bag. She wasn't sure whether it was the subject or the author that had drawn her"
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Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically-- any way you want to look at it-- everybody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.
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keep your quid pro quota shit. I only tol' you about Story because he's dead. You can put me back in
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The coyote howled once more. Bosch thought he could hear a dog answering somewhere in the distance. "Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes." "Yes,"
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speaker and shout. 'Mary,
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And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.
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Looks like it,' Winston said.
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I've seen long careers and careers cut short. The difference is in how you handle the darkness.
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sidewalls and a military cut. Long hair provided cover. Bosch had done it himself twice during his time in-country, returning to L.A. to spend five days
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If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.
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so, he wondered,
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His eyes strayed past us to the television. On the program they were now selling a glove with small rubber bristles on the palm for grooming pets. "I know what else you could use that for," Adkins said. He made a masturbation motion with his hand and winked and smiled at Thompson. "That's what they're really selling that for, you know." --
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.
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She'll change. It's like winning the lottery, man. Found money, more than she'll ever need." "And I guess that's the point. More than she'll ever need. You ever read those stories about people who win the lottery and how it ruins their lives? They can't adjust, they meet people with their hands out wherever they go. She's an artist. Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down becaus..
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Along the way he thought about what he'd said to Lourdes about cop blood. It was something he truly believed. He knew that in his internal universe, there was a mission etched in a secret language, like drawings on the wall of an ancient cave, that gave him his direction and meaning. It could not be altered and it would always be there to guide him to the right path.
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Oxnard was the biggest city in Ventura County. Its unattractive name was that of a sugar beet farmer who built a processing plant in the settlement in the late nineteenth century. The city totally surrounded Port Hueneme, where there was a small U.S. Navy base.
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That number could be divided in a variety of ways, putting the missing point of the triangle in a myriad of possible positions on the map. What
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