02384cam a2200421 i 4500 2334139419 TxAuBib 20250611120000.0 241205s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316589567 031658956X (OCoLC)1518845686 TxAuBib rda Connelly, Michael, author. Nightshade / by Michael Connelly. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. 437 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Catalina ; 1 "Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been exiled to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor -- a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, Stilwell doggedly works both cases. Though hampered by an old beef with an ex-colleague determined to thwart him at every turn, he is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as 'Nightshade.' Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city"-- Provided by publisher. 20250611. Detectives Fiction. Police California Los Angeles Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Poaching Fiction. Islands Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Corruption Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Thrillers . lcgft Fiction. lcgft Catalina ; 1. TXKPL