Joseph Wambaugh

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1971
  • Latest Book:
    April 2012
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Hollywood Station

1 - Hollywood Station (Dec-2006)
2 - Hollywood Crows (May-2008)
3 - Hollywood Moon (Dec-2009)
4 - Hollywood Hills (Nov-2010)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • New Centurions

    Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind...

  • The Blue Knight

    Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he "pulls the pin" and walks away from it forever. But on the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind ...

  • The Onion Field

  • The Choirboys

    “Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap -- each has his horror story, his bad dream, his nightshriek. He is afraid of his friends -- he is afraid of himself.” -- New York TimesPartners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re...

  • The Black Marble

    He is a damned good cop -- a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner -- twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.

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  • The Delta Star

    L.A. Wambaugh-style. A world of cops on the rocks with a twist of murder. A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from the roof of a sleazy hotel. But what’s a Caltech phone number doing in her trick book? And how does that connect t...

  • The Glitter Dome

    A grim look at the ugly underbelly of life as a Hollywood copy

    It’s the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD ...

  • Lines and Shadows

    The true story only Joseph Wambaugh could tell. A band of California cops set loose in no-man’s-land to come home heroes. Or come home dead. Not since Joseph Wambaugh’s bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascin...

  • The Secrets of Harry Bright

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Raucous cops, outlaw bikers, and suntanned celebrities collide in a steamy landscape swirling with natural beauty and unnatural death.   Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack W...



  • Echoes in the Darkness

    On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line."  Her two children had vanished.  The Main Line Murder Case burst upo...

  • The Golden Orange

    THE WEST-COAST PLAYGROUNDS OF THE FILTHY RICH... WHERE PASSIONS BLOW AS HOT--AND AS DEADLY--AS THE SANTA ANA WINDS When forty-year-old cop Winnie Farlowe lost his shield, he lost the only protection he had. Ever since, he's been fighting a bad bac...

  • Fugitive Nights

    AN OASIS OF GLAMOUR AND GLITTER... A DESERT OF MENACE AND MYSTERY... A WORLD OF WILD-HEARTS AND FUGITIVE NIGHTS For some, it's the pleasure capital of the world. For others, it's a city of last chances, a paradise on the edge of the desert. For soon...

  • Finnegan's Week

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When a pair of lowlife thieves cross the border into Tijuana, three tenacious cops cross the line.

    Fin Finnegan is a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor who’s passing midlife crisis and head...

  • Floaters

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLSER • “This is vintage Wambaugh, a rollicking and ribald tale, laced with black humor.” -- The San Diego Union-TribuneHarbor cops Fortney and Leeds have a good time patrolling San Diego’s Mission Bay, scopingout bo...

  • Hollywood Station

    Hollywood Station - 1

    A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Joseph Wambaugh invented the modern police procedural thriller. Now in his long-awaited return to the LAPD, he deploys his bone-deep understanding of cops' lives--and a lethal sense of humor--in a stunning new ...

  • Hollywood Crows

    Hollywood Station - 2

    When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middl...

  • Hollywood Moon

    Hollywood Station - 3

    There's a saying at Hollywood Station that the full moon brings out the beast -- rather than the best -- in the local citizens. One moonlit night, veteran officers Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss get a call about a prowler who's been brutally ...

  • Hollywood Hills

    Hollywood Station - 4

    The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran Hollywood Nate Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame....

  • The Blooding

    Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough.  Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.  Three years later the killer strike...



  • Harbor Nocturne

    In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a yo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joseph Wambaugh has published 20 books.

Joseph Wambaugh does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Harbor Nocturne, was published in April 2012.

The first book by Joseph Wambaugh, New Centurions, was published in February 1971.

Yes. Joseph Wambaugh has 1 series.
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