Cold Hit by Stephen J. Cannell

Publisher: "Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr", 2005
ISBN: 0312347308
ID: S00010051

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Price in US $ 101.25

Summary: Startling connections between a ten-year-old cold case and a string of brutal killings lead Detective Shane Scully to a sinister government conspiracy in this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning TV Creator/Producer Stephen J. CannellShane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of the Fingertip Killera serial murderer preying on homeless Vietnam veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back of the head. Once theyre dead, he cuts off their fingertips and tosses their bodies in the river.Into this explosive mix comes another killing that Shane believes doesnt fit the pattern. Scully suspects an elaborate copy-cat murder. A bullet pulled from the last victims skull produces what police call a cold hitan unexpected ballistics match linking one unsolved case to anotherand the previous victim was an LA Police officer, killed ten years earlier.After FBI agents throw him off the Fingertip Killer case, Scully teams up with his wife and boss, Alexa. Outside the law and deep undercover, they fight to see justice done for the slain officer, and, possibly, to unravel a murderous plot with criminal connections high up in the U.S. government.

Vertical Coffin: A Shane Scully Novel by Stephen J. Cannell

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2004
ISBN: 9780312304256
ID: P000500112

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Summary: A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased agency, assigns Shane Scully to investigate. mHe is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Shane pursues his investigation in a direction that neither his chief nor his wife agrees with, and succeeds in putting himself, his loved ones, and his career in terrible jeopardy before he finally discovers the shocking and deadly truth.