New York: Crown, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as the first Cuban-American thriller, this is a story of witchcraft, crime and law, set in the Hispanic communities of Los Angeles. Charlie Morrell, himself Cuban, is a court-appointed investigator assigned to take on the case of two marielitos, followers of the santeria cult, who are accused of a vicious killing. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, 308 pp. ISBN: 0-517-58509X.

New York: Crown, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as the first Cuban-American thriller, this is a story of witchcraft, crime and law, set in the Hispanic communities of Los Angeles. Charlie Morrell, himself Cuban, is a court-appointed investigator assigned to take on the case of two marielitos, followers of the santeria cult, who are accused of a vicious killing. SIGNED on the half title page, 308 pp. ISBN: 0-517-58509X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories, set mostly in Southern California. 112 pp

Unity, Maine: Five Star, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Smokey Brandon, ex-stripper and current forensic specialist with the Orange County Sheriff's department. INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- a great mystery sister!" and dated in the year of publication. Promotional bookmark laid in. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-786228970.

New York: Morrow, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Smokey Brandon, ex-stripper and current forensic specialist with the Orange County Sheriff's department. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-688-108245.

New York: Morrow, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The author's first mystery, introducing Smokey Brandon, ex-stripper and current forensic specialist with the Orange County Sheriff's department. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-688-108245.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second thriller featuring Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran, fresh out of prison, who is on his way to Los Angeles for a fresh start. The first book in this series won the Nero Award. SIGNED on the title page. 436 pp. ISBN: 978-1538719671.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008). First edition - The author's first novel, written in verse, about an ancient race of lycanthropes who have survived to the present day and are growing in strength. Caught in the middle is Anthony, a kindhearted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a werewolf, 312 pp.

New York: Ace Books, (1984). SIGNED - INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1985. Novel by this African American science fiction writer - a dystopian view of the near future, where Los Angeles has become a war-zone. 310 pp. Cover art by Barclay Shaw. ISBN: 0-812-510348.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Boldly SIGNED on the title page. First novel by an LAPD anti-gang police officer who still worked in the 77th Division when this was published - a brutal, ferocious, and grittily cinematic crime novel featuring young police officer Ben Halloran and his partner who find themselves caught in a web of violent corruption involving the Crip gang and the Mexican mafia. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-594489262.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Dystopian novel set in 2047 in an America where the microscopic machines of nanotechnology have built a clean, prosperous America. But those who resist the mandatory "therapy" suffer discrimination and poverty. When the mutilated corpses of eight young students are found in the luxury apartment of a noted poet, he becomes the "subject of investigation by an ambitious policewoman, a renegade psychologist, and the murderer's closest friend. Twenty-first century Los Angeles provides the surrealistic setting for a remarkable exploration of human guilt and fears. . . Bear's blending of high-tech gloss with penetrating insights into human nature results in a complex and challenging speculative vision." (Library Journal) 364 pp. ISBN: 0-446514004.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Dystopian novel set in 2047 in an America where the microscopic machines of nanotechnology have built a clean, prosperous America. But those who resist the mandatory "therapy" suffer discrimination and poverty. When the mutilated corpses of eight young students are found in the luxury apartment of a noted poet, he becomes the "subject of investigation by an ambitious policewoman, a renegade psychologist, and the murderer's closest friend. Twenty-first century Los Angeles provides the surrealistic setting for a remarkable exploration of human guilt and fears. . . Bear's blending of high-tech gloss with penetrating insights into human nature results in a complex and challenging speculative vision." (Library Journal) 364 pp. ISBN: 0-446514004.

New York: Center Street / Hachette, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring former L.A. trial lawyer Ty Buchanan who is trying to put the disastrous period of his life behing him, when his fiance was killed, and he was brought up on murder charges. "He's living in a trailer on the grounds of a monastery, easing back into professional life, when a case involving a woman and her young daughter, who are being tossed out of their apartment by an unscrupulous building owner, draws him back into the dangerous world he thought hed left behind. Then the woman is found dead, and now Ty must protect the little girl while trying to find out whos behind her mothers murder." 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1599956855.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this veteran LAPD cop. "Calico" Jack Walker is getting ready to retire, but first he has accepted a challenge: the Citadel Run - a race to Las Vegas and back against anothe patrol car, all in an 8 hour tour - and so he sets off with his partner, a rookie (and a woman and Japanese American, but just as stubborn as Calico.) SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-31293047X.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in the world of international soccer. The loss of his eye ruined British goalkeeper Ian Chapel's chances of ever playing world-class soccer again and so he turned to investigative work, When he is asked to investigate the murder of the goalie for the Los Angeles Ravens, his two worlds come together. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312931557.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second thriller by this author, a Los Angeles Police Department veteran himself. Retired LAPD cop Calico Jack Walker and his former partner (and current girlfriend) Tina Tamiko find themselves caught up in the drug wars. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the month of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-312931581.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A young girl in Los Angeles seems to have it all -but the fires burning around the city bring to her the awareness that she is a vampire. SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp. ISBN: 9780061547850.

New York: Crown, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "evokes the original 'crime of the century' [the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building on Oct 1, 1910] and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself - a seminal episode in America's history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith." Cast of characters, photographs, notes on sources. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-307346943.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004). SIGNED first edition - Includes both the newest Shane Scully thriller, but also the first novel in the series, "The Tin Collectors." Vertical coffin is the name that the SWAT team uses for doorways, since they are most vulnerable at that point. SIGNED on the title page. 324 and 389 pp. ISBN: 0-312-331908.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel about a nice, quiet girl who winds up in the middle of the punk-rock scene in Los Angeles, when she is sent to spend a couple of weeks with her father, a recovering addict and drummer. Castellucci was a rock musician herself in Canada and Los Angeles - where she recorded under the name Cecil Seaskull. SIGNED on title page. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0763630669.

Boston: Little Brown, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - First novel, a legal thriller, by the former Los Angeles deputy district attorney who was the lead on the O. J. Simpson trial. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Oct 2010.

Boston: Little Brown, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel, a legal thriller, by the former Los Angeles deputy district attorney who was the lead on the O. J. Simpson trial. 356 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller set in Los Angeles, featuring Ted Lowe, who is investigating the murder of a thirteen year old girl, and finding layer after layer of corruption. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-671028278.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring LAPD Detective Renee Ballard, who works the night shift, and Harry Bosch. retired but willing to be her backup, as they try to solve two series of crimes - one that of a brazen methodical killer who struck again on New Year's Eve and the other the vicious attacks of a pair of serial rapists known as the Midnight Men. A detailed police procedural. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-0316485647.

Boston: Little Brown, (2008.). First edition - A follow-up to 'The Lincoln Lawyer' this focuses on defense attorney Mickey Haller, but on this case he is working with (sort of, anyhow) Harry Bosch. Bound in page from Connelly explaining the genesis of this novel. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony Award. 403 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Harry Bosch novel, set in Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony Award. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154059.