| International Standard Book Number |
9780316607308
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316607304
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| Personal Name |
Connelly, Michael, 1956- author.
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| Title Statement |
Ironwood [large type] : a Catalina novel / Michael Connelly.
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| Edition Statement |
Large print edition.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
375 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Detective Stilwell series; book 2.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated--by twenty-two miles of ocean--from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven. Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky, a remote airstrip in the mountains. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. While Stilwell chases the fleeing pickup man into the mountainside brush, shots are fired on the runway and the plane flies off. An internal inquiry follows, putting Stilwell on the bench until he is cleared of responsibility for the disastrous operation. But he is determined to find out who brought deadly violence to his island, and begins his own secret investigation into the drug deal gone wrong. While under orders to remain in the sheriff's substation, he finds in the lost and found a valuable backpack that was never claimed. He traces it to a woman who disappeared while hiking on the island four years ago. But then why was the pack only turned in two months back? Now thoroughly intrigued, he follows the mystery all the way to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit and Detective Renée Ballard. Stilwell and Ballard work the case from both sides of the channel, and soon realize they are on the trail of a criminal who revels in taunting the authorities. Meanwhile, frustrated at being shut out of an investigation on his own island, Stilwell risks his already shaky standing in the department to pursue a case whose reach is wider than he ever imagined.
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| Target Audience Note |
A Libraria.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Police California Los Angeles Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Islands Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Narcotics Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Detectives Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction).
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| Series Added Entry-Personal Name |
Connelly, Michael, 1956- Detective Stilwell series ; 2.
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