The Black Marble

**Two LAPD cops stumble into trouble during a search for a kidnapped dog in this “superb”** New York Times **bestseller from the author of** Hollywood Station **(** St. Louis Post-Dispatch **).** Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the *Los Angeles Times* called “terrifying and romantic,” the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. *Cosmopolitan* called it “fast, colorful and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.”