Joseph Wambaugh

LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Ramstead are unaware that seemingly harmless socialite Margot Aziz's divorce from a nefarious nightclub owner is part of a murderous ruse in which both Nate and Ramstead are being set up.

"Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool as an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly becomes an obsession. For the savage...

There is saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast, rather than the best, in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling actor turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo, a smooth talking player in dreadlocks and a crazy eyed, tattooed biker....

San Diego police detective Finbar Brendan Finnegan and two female investigators--an environmental crimes cop from the District Attorney's Office and a U.S. Navy investigator--try to make sense of a conspiracy involving deadly toxic waste and a theft of U.S. Navy goods.

In Newport Beach, on the Gold Coast of California's Orange County, a forty-year-old ex-cop becomes the target of an unknown assailant after he meets a beautiful divorcee.

Los Angeles homicide detective Mario Villalobos' investigation of a seemingly routine murder leads him to a famous university where the struggle for recognition, funds, and the Nobel prize may have high costs.