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A UK published trilogy collection of The Poet, Blood Work, and Void Moon.
Measures Of Poison (USA, 2002) with George P. Pelecanos, James Crumley, Janwillem Van De Wetering, Jon A. Jackson, and Dennis McMillen (Editor)
An anthology of original stories written in 1930s-pulp style. Published by Dennis McMillan Publications. Includes a short story by Michael Connelly titled "Cahoots."
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (USA, 2002)
A collection of short stories edited by James Ellroy. Contains the short story "Two-Bagger," by Michael Connelly.
Three Great Novels (UK, 2001)
The UK published trilogy collection of The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, and Angels Flight.
The Harry Bosch Novels (USA, 2001)
The USA published trilogy collection of The Black Echo, The Black Ice, and The Concrete Blonde.
Murderers' Row: Original Baseball Mysteries (USA, 2001) with Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, K. C. Constantine, Elmore Leonard, John Lescroart, Laura Lippman, Mike Lupica, Michael Malone, Robert B. Parker, Thomas Perry, Henry Slesar, Troy Soos, and Otto Penzler,
ed.
A short story collection of baseball mysteries, includes "Two-Bagger" by Michael Connelly.
The Harry Bosch Mysteries (UK, 2000)
The UK published trilogy collection of The Black Echo, The Black Ice, and The Concrete Blonde.
The Black Echo (1992) --
Edgar Winner for Best First Mystery Novel.
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 Ice (1993)
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.
The Concrete Blonde (1994)
They called him the Dollmaker...
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
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 Last Coyote (1995)
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. Trunk Music (1997)
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
Angels Flight (1999)
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.
A Darkness More Than Night (2001)
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.City of Bones (2002)
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. Lost Light (2003)
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
The Narrows (2004)
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.
The Closers (2005)
After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns, to find the
department a different place from the one he left. A new Police Chief has
been brought over from New York to give the place a thorough clean up from
top to bottom. Working with his former partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is
assigned to the department's Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands
of cold cases that haunt the LAPD's files.
These detectives are the Closers—they put a shovel in the dirt and turn
over the past. By applying new techniques to old evidence they aim to
unearth some hidden killers and bring them to justice, for "a city that
forgets its murder victims is a city lost."
Harry and Kiz are given a politically sensitive case when a DNA match
connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of Rebecca Verloren, a
sixteen-year-old girl. Becky was of mixed race, and the case appears to
have a racial angle. This was LA before the riots and Rodney King; the
city was a powder keg waiting for a match. The detectives who worked the
case all those years ago seem to have done a decent job, but something
doesn't fit.
Meanwhile Harry's nemesis, Deputy Chief Irving, is watching him. In the
new "clean" LAPD Irving has been sidelined to a meaningless job. Compelled
by vengeance, he hopes that Harry will make a slip...
Echo Park (2006)
In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in
Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders
from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch
was assigned the case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up — dead or
alive — and it was a case Bosch couldn't crack.
Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a
call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is
willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to
avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of
Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and
to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with
death.
In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought
for thirteen 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 Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that
followed the killing of Marie Gesto.
The Overlook (2006)
In his first case since he left the LAPD's 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 on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam. Retracing his steps,
Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen
shortly before the doctor's 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 Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this
case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch's job to
prove them all wrong.
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.
Blood Work (1998) --
Grand Prix Award (France), and Anthony
Award and Macavity Award Winner for Best Novel.
Movie
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.
Chasing the Dime
(2002)
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.
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)
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.
Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers (2006)
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.
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