Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.
Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing.
Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.
Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career.
He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.
Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poetmade his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack's.
In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved
Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry
Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may
have chilling consequences for national security. A
doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance
is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing
his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive
cesium was stolen shortly before the doctors death.
With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder
could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major
American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time,
not only against the culprits, but also against the
Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the
form of Harrys one-time lover Rachel Walling), who
are convinced that this case is too important for the
likes of the LAPD. It is Boschs job to prove all of
them wrong.
Detective Harry Bosch reopens one of his own unsolved
cases and comes face to face with a psychotic killer
he has been seeking for 13 years. Bosch's whole being
as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realize that
he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that
could have led them to the killer and would have stopped
the nine murders that followed.
NON-FICTION
Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering
the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles.
In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the
reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the
investigators, the victims, their families and friends—and,
of course, the killers—to tell the real stories
of murder and its aftermath.
Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration
to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn
from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based
on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of
his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known
characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn
from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner
detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer
the Poet.
Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, this
non-fiction collection contains an Introduction by Michael
Connelly and an Afterword by Michael Carlson.
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life
afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood
right in front of him. But what he should have been
on the watch for was evil.
Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the
back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses
of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers,
drug dealers — they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the
law is rarely about guilt or innocence — it's about negotiation and manipulation.
Sometimes it's even about justice.
A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar
chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in
years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And
as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case
of his career.
Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for
innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape
without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his
arsenal — this time to save his own life.
Detective Harry Bosch is out of retirement and back into the thick of things as he rejoins the LAPD in their Open-Unsolved Unit a.k.a. ‘Cold Case Squad’. His first assignment is a 17 year old murder of a racially mixed teenager. Modern-day DNA technology produces evidence leading to a possible suspect – a white supremacist named Roland Mackey. The more Harry digs into this dusty case, the more pain and resistance he encounters. Faced with unlikely suspects, departmental politics and corruption, Bosch remembers all too well why he retired in the first place.
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded
for years: the one that tells her the Poet has returned.
Years earlier she worked on the famous case tracking down
the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous
crimes. Rachel has never forgotten the killer who called
himself the Poet—and apparently he has not forgotten
her.
Harry Bosch gets a call, too. The former LAPD detective hears from an old friend
whose husband recently died. The death appeared natural, but this man's ties
to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep—and lead him into a terrifying
and unknown world.
So begins the most deeply compelling, frightening, and masterful novel Michael
Connelly has ever written. The Narrows places Harry Bosch in league with Rachel
Walling, at odds with the FBI, and squarely in the path of the most ruthless
and ingenious murderer in Los Angeles's history. What follows is a taut and tantalizing
mystery that has Harry Bosch racing from the hostile vistas of the Nevada desert
to the glittering Las Vegas Strip to the dark corners of Los Angeles.
Through it all, Bosch works at his newfound life as father to a young daughter,
balancing the deepest love he has ever felt with his own sense of mission and
his deep awareness of evil.
Fed up with the hypocrisy of the LAPD, Harry Bosch has resigned
and is forced to find a new way of life. But the life of
a retiree doesn't suit him. He has always devoted himself
to justice, and he is still drawn toward protecting—or
avenging—those whom the law has failed.
When he left the LAPD Bosch took a file with him— the case of a film production
assistant murdered four years earlier during a $2 million robbery on a movie
set. The LAPD—now operating under post 9/11 rules—think the stolen
money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original
murder victim are lost in the federal zeal, and when it seems the killer will
be set free to aid the feds' terrorist hunt, Bosch quickly finds himself in conflict
with both his old colleagues and the FBI. He cannot rest until he finds the killer—with
or without a badge.
Would you risk your life for a woman you'd never met?
Henry Pierce has a whole new life — new apartment, new telephone, new telephone
number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone
had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly,
and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's
world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a nighttime world of
escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through
a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman
he has never met.
Pierce's skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly's last days
with some precision. But every step into Lilly's past takes Pierce deeper into
a web of inescapable intricacy — and a decision that could cost him everything
he owns and holds dear.
On New Year's Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that
a dog has found a bone — a bone that the dog's owner,
a doctor, feels certain is a human bone.
Bosch investigates, and that chance discovery leads him to a shallow grave in
the Hollywood hills, evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier.
It's a cold case, but it stirs up Bosch's memories of his own childhood as an
orphan in the city. He can't let it go. Digging through police reports and hospital
records, tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a
family ripped apart by an absence — and a trail, ever more tenuous, into
a violent, terrifying world.
As the case takes Bosch deeper into the past, a rookie cop named Julia Brasher
brings him alive in the present in a way no one has in years. Bosch has been
warned about the trouble that comes with dating a rookie, but no warning could
withstand the heat between them — or prepare Bosch for the explosions when
the case takes a hard turn. A suspect bolts, a cop is shot, and suddenly Bosch's
cold case has all of L.A. in an uproar — and Bosch fighting to keep control
in a lawless and brutal showdown.
The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink
of an unimaginable decision — one that will leave readers hungrily awaiting
for the next Bosch novel.
Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed
all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged
with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her
death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting
officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought
the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy.
Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island
when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's
a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his
FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb
to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've
missed.
McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical
killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into
a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes — his murdered loner and Bosch's
movie director — begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation
after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving
almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening
killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines,
and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of
their lives.
The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde
Michael Connelly's most famous character, Detective Harry Bosch, has been thrilling readers for a decade. Now available in one omnibus edition are the three books that brought him to life. First introduced in The Black Echo, Bosch hunts the brutal murderer of a Vietnam buddy. Then, in The Black Ice, a narcotics officer's disappearance sends Bosch on a trail of murders leading from Hollywood Boulevard to Mexico's dusty back alleys. And in The Concrete Blonde, Bosch must hunt down the Dollmaker, a macabre serial killer, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, one of our most fascinating and well-loved sleuths.
Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from
her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left
the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now
she's thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshots.
Through everything — even her darkest moments — she
has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect
thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself.
When that secret is threatened, Cassie tosses her new life away like a bad hand
of cards and goes back in a sprint to her old line of work. Her trade was robbing
casino gamblers, and she was the very best. Now it's the only way she can make
enough money fast to maybe make everything right. Quickly she lines up a mark,
a man who has been winning steadily for a week at high-stakes baccarat. The job
goes smoothly until she opens his briefcase...
And discovers a world of trouble she never dreamed of. Her superstitious friend
who lined up the job says it's the bad-luck void moon having its malignant way.
Cassie knows it's worse. She's crossed paths again with her life's nemesis, the
man who destroyed everything six years before. He's Jack Karch, a private investigator
by day who does bloody work for casino owners by night. Walking back into his
sights is the worst thing that's ever happened to Cassie. Getting out alive will
take all her skill and luck and faith in that one good thing...
When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias
is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a cable
railway in downtown Los Angeles, there's not a detective
in the city who wants to touch the case. For Elias specialized
in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism, and corruption,
and every LAPD cop is a possible suspect in his killing.
Detective Harry Bosch is put in charge. Elias's murder occurred on the eve of
a major trial: on behalf of black client, Michael Harris, Elias was to bring
a civil case against the LAPD for violent interrogation tactics that had caused
his client the partial loss of his hearing. Harris had been acquitted of the
rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl, but many, including Bosch, believe
him guilty. Elias had let it be known that the trial would serve a dual purpose — to
target and bring down the guilty cops and to expose the real murderer of the
little girl. Post Rodney King, the 1992 riots, and the trial of O.J. Simpson,
the City of Angels is living on its nerves. To discover the truth Harry must
dig deep in his own backyard — except that it's a minefield of suspicion
and hate that could detonate in his face.
And as if he didn't have enough on his mind, his happiness with Eleanor Wish
looks to be short-lived. Five cards on the felt are pulling her back to a place
where Harry cannot follow, back to herself.
In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry
McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment
forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing
his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in
Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement,
when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's
death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating
in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's.
As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of
the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind
the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying
than anything he ever encountered before.
Blood Work won the Grand Prix, the highest honor for a mystery
novel in France. It also won the Anthony Award and Macavity
Award for Best Novel of 1998.
Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD
homicide detective Harry Bosch lands his first case: a Hollywood
producer found in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce, shot twice
in the head. It looks like "trunk music," a Mafia
hit.
The LAPD's organized crime unit is oddly uninterested, but Harry thinks they're
wrong. He follows the money trail from the producer's office to Las Vegas, where
he quickly finds evidence of Mafia involvement. But something about the case
doesn't add up, and Harry follows a string of odd clues — glitter in the
producer's cuffs, an over-the-counter medication in the Rolls' glove box — in
a different direction entirely.
Just when Harry thinks he's on firm ground, the bottom falls out. Blind sided
again and again, at odds with his superiors, and overwhelmed by a romance that
has cropped up in the middle of the case, Harry is as off balance as he's ever
been. When the picture finally comes into focus, Harry discovers a scheme many
magnitudes more deadly than he imagined—with himself now one of its targets.
Running on instincts and nerves, with a short fuse and everything to lose, Harry
must prove himself not just by breaking the case, but by surviving it.
Jack McEvoy specializes in death. As a crime reporter for
the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder.
But his professional bravado doesn't lessen the brutal shock
of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide.
Jack's brother was a homicide detective, and he had been depressed about a recent
murder case, a hideously grisly one, that he'd been unable to solve.
McEvoy decides that the best way to exorcise his grief is by writing a feature
on police suicides. But when he begins his research, he quickly arrives at a
stunning revelation. Following his leads, protecting his sources, muscling his
way inside a federal investigation, Jack grabs hold of what is clearly the story
of a lifetime. He also knows that in taking on the story, he's making himself
the most visible target for a murderer who has eluded the greatest investigators
alive.
Michael Connelly's fourth novel cuts to the very core of
Harry Bosch's character, as he is drawn to investigate a
thirty-year-old unsolved crime: the murder of his mother.
Harry's life is a mess. His house has been condemned because of earthquake damage.
His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And he's even had to turn
in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely
pending a psychiatric evaluation.
At first Bosch, resists the LAPD shrink, but finally he recognizes that something
is troubling him, a force that may have shaped his entire life. In 1961, when
Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever even accused
of the crime.
Harry opens up the decades-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into
a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled. His mother
was a prostitute, and even thirty years late the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable.
Someone powerful was able to keep the investigating officers away from key suspects.
Even as he confronts his own shame about his mother, Harry relentlessly follows
up the old evidence, seeking justice or at least understanding. Out of the broken
pieces of the case he discerns a trail that leads upward, toward prominent people
who lead public lives high in the Hollywood hills. And as he nears his answer,
Harry finds that ancient passions don't die. They cause new murders even today.
The serial killer who stalked Los Angeles and left a grisly calling card on the
faces of his female victims. With a single faultless shot, Detective Harry
Bosch thought he had ended the city's nightmare.
Now, the dead man's widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man — an
accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with
the Dollmaker's macabre signature.
Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much
alive, before he strikes again. It's a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry
from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go — the
darkness of his own heart.
With The Concrete Blonde, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has hit
a whole new level in his career, creating a breathtaking thriller that thrusts
you into a blistering courtroom battle — and a desperate search for a sadistic
killer.
The official report said suicide. But in a city where murder
is sport, Bosch isn't ready to blame the victim.
Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug
killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his head in several pieces
and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.
Years ago, Harry learned the first rule of the good cop: don't look for the facts,
but the glue that holds them together. Now, Harry's making some very dangerous
connections, starting with one dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders
that wind from Hollywood Boulevard's drug bazaar to the dusty back alleys south
of the border and into the center of a complex and lethal game — one in
which Harry is the next and likeliest victim.
After his richly acclaimed debut, Michael Connelly brings Bosch back in an achievement
even more stunning and suspenseful than its predecessor — a time-bomb of
a novel supercharged with tension and non-stop action that doesn't let up until
the final, explosive ending.
For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch — hero, maverick,
nighthawk — the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland
dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is
personal.
The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who
fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them
to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horrors of Nam. From
a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city
to the tortuous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once
again be tested to their limit.
Joining with an enigmatic female FBI agent, pitted against enemies within his
own department, Bosch must make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance,
as he tracks down a killer whose true face will shock him.
The Black Echo won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery
Novel awarded by the Mystery Writers of America.
