THE FIRST HARRY BOSCH NOVEL
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD
FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

THE BLACK ECHO

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mullholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic.  This one is personal... because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war.  Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam.  From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.  Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.

"Recalls no one so much as Raymond Chandler... ambitious, skillful, moving, intricate, and clever."
- Los Angeles Times

"Connelly is one of those masters... who can keep driving the story in runaway locomotive style."
- USA Today

THE BLACK ICE

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 a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.  Working the case, L.A.P.D. detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together.  Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border.  Now this battle-scarred veteran will findhimself in the center of a complex and deadly game - one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.

"MICHAEL CONNELLY IS ONE OF TODAY'S TOP CRIME NOVELISTS." -Associated Press

"TERRIFIC." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

"OUTLANDISHLY REALISTIC AND DARKLY ENTERTAINING." -Houson Chronicle

THE CONCRETE BLONDE

They call him the Dollmaker, a serial killer who stalks Los Angeles and leaves a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims.  When a suspect is shot by Detective Harry Bosch, everyone believes the city's nightmare is over.  But then the dead man's widow sues Harry and the L.A.P.D. for killing the wrong man - an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new corpse is found with the Dollmaker's macabre signature.  Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a ruthless death-dealer before he strikes again.  Careening through a blood-tracked quest, Harry will go from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go - the darkness of his own heart...

"MASTERFULLY ENTERTAINING."
- Houston Chronicle

"OUTSTANDING... CAN'T BE PUT DOWN."
- Kansas City Star

THE LAST COYOTE

Harry Bosch's life is on the edge.  His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him.  He's drinking too much.  After attacking his commanding officer, he's been forced to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective's badge.  Now, suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation, he is obsessed with investigating an unsolved crime from 1961: the brutal slaying of a prostitute who happened to be his own mother.  Even after three decades, Harry's questions generate heat among L.A.'s top politicos.  And as the shocking truth starts to emerge, the fallen cop gets closer to an enemy who is very powerful, cunning... and deadly.

TOUGH, TAUT WRITING."
- New York Times Book Review

"AMBITIOUS, SKILLFUL, AND MOVING."
Los Angeles Times

TRUNK MUSIC

Tony Aliso finally has a hit.  Stuffed into the truck of his Rolls on a ragged stretch og Mulholland Drive, the B-movie producer took two bullets to the head - the kind of job wiseguys call "Trunk Music."  L.A.P.D. Detective Harry Bosch, hungry for action after an involuntary layoff, catches the case and is soon painstakingly unraveling Aliso's life, times, and ties... from his Mob deals to his beautiful wife to a stripper in Vegas to the disgraced FBI agent who just happens to be Harry's ex-girlfriend.  How somewhere between L.A. and Las Vegas is the one answer Harry needs.  But so are enemies on both sides of the law, the woman he till loves, and the secret that can break your heart - or get you killed.

ANGELS FLIGHT

An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf.  But the case is so explosive - and the dead man's enemies inside the LAPD are so numerious - that it falls to Harry to solve it.  Now the streets are superheating.  Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling.  And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive.  The question is, did any have the guts?

"A FLIGHT WELL WORTH TAKING."
- People

"A STUNNER, SUPERBLY PACED
- Esquire

"CONNELLY IS, QUITE SIMPLY, THE BEST OF THE BEST."
- Philadelphia Inquirer

"CONNELLY RAISES THE BAR OF EXCELLENCE... ONE OF AMERICA'S FINEST WRITERS.  DON'T MISS HIM.
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

A DARKNESS MORE
THAN NIGHT

It was a case some cops could live with: the torture killing of a man who spread horrors of his own.  Yet one investigator believes the unknown assailant will strike again, and she persuades former criminal profiler Terry McCaleb to leave his quiet life to help her out.  In a horrific morass of crime scene details, McCaleb deciphers a message and finds a suspect: a Los Angeles detective named Harry Bosch who has spent too many years looking at too much darkness.  But while Bosch may have had a good reason to murder a man in a West Hollywood apartment, he has an even better one for staying alive - and for finding a suspect of his own.

"POWERFUL."  -Wall Street Journal

"SURPRISING AND SUSPENSEFUL."  -People

"[A] GREAT THRILLER."
-Denver Rocky Mountain News

CITY OF BONES

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier.  It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan.  He can't let it go.  As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present.  No official warning can break them apart or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns.  Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of an unimaginable decision.

"SUREFOOTED... INVIGORATING... A CAREFULLY WROUGHT MAZE... CONNELLY'S DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE STORYTELLING HAS GREAT URGENCY."
-New York Times

"THE BEST AMERICAN CRIME SERIES NOW IN PROGRESS... CONNELLY'S UNDERSTANDING OF HOW COPS WORK AND THINK REMAINS UNSURPASSED."
-Washington Post Book World

"SIZZLES WITH ENERGY"
-Chicago Tribune

LOST LIGHT

The vision has haunted him for four years - a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication.  Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set.  Both files were never closed.  Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella.  Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own.  And even in the face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he's ever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.

"MICHAEL CONNELLY IS THE MOST TALENTED OF CRIME WRITERS." - The New Yorker

"MICHAEL CONNELLY'S HARRY BOSCH NOVELS ARE THE MOST IMPRESSIVE BODY OF WORK BY ANY WRITER OF CRIME THRILLERS NOW ACTIVE."
- Washington Post

"THE BOOK AGAINST WHICH EVERY OTHER TITLE IN THE SERIES - AND THOSE YET TO COME - WILL BE MEASURED." - Chicago Sun-Times

"TERRIFIC." - San Francisco Chronicle

THE NARROWS

FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has resurfaced.  She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes and apparently he has not forgotten her.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too from the widow of an old friend.  Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep.  Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel.  Now the two are at odds with the FBI... and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...

"SCARIFYING IN A BIG WAY - THOMAS HARRIS
KIND OF SCARY."  - Stephen King

"RIVETING, SUSPENSEFUL."
- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"CONNELLY IS A MASTER... AND THIS NOVEL IS
YET ANOTHER OF HIS MASTERPIECES."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"SHOCKING... A WILD, HEART-STOPPING RIDE."
- Entertainment Weekly

THE CLOSERS

He walked away from the job three years ago.  But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit.  His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime.  With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal.  But something bigger and darker beckons, and Harry must battle to fit all the pieces together.  Shaking cages and rattling ghosts, he will push the rules to the limit - and expose the kind of truth that shatters lives, ends careers, and keeps the dead whispering in the night...

"LEAVE IT TO MICHAEL CONNELLY TO REINVENT
THE POLICE PROCEDURAL...  HE ARTFULLY
RECLAIMS THE GENRE."
- New York Times Book Review

"CONNELLY COMES AS CLOSE AS ANYONE TO BEING
TODAY'S DOSTOYEVSKY OF CRIME LITERATURE, AND
THIS IS ONE OF HIS FINEST NOVELS TO DATE."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

ECHO PARK

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket.  Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found.  Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney.  A man accused of Iwo heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto.  Taking the confession of the man he has sought - and hated - for thirteen years is bad enough.  Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch.

"TERRIFIC... FAST-MOVING... SUPERBLY PLOTTED... CONNELLY GETS EVERYTHING RIGHT."
- New York Times Book Review

"CONNELLY IS, QUITE SIMPLY, THE BEST OF THE BEST."
- Philadelphia Inquirer

"A SUSPENSEFUL, FAST-PACED BOSCH PAGE-TURNER."
- Associated Press

"DELIVERS ALL THE PUNCH OF A COMPELLING, SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER."
- People

THE OVERLOOK

Near Mulholland Drive, Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot twice in the back of the head.  It's the case LAPD detective Harry Bosch has been waiting for, his first since being recruited to the Homicide Special Squad.  When he discovers that Kent had access to dangerous radioactive substances, what begins as a routine investigation becomes something darker, more deadly, and frighteningly urgent.  Bosch is soon in conflict with not only his superiors but the FBI, which thinks the case is too important for just a cop.  Complicating his job even more is the presence of Agent Rachel Walling, his onetime lover.  Now guarding one slim advantage, Bosch relentlessly follows his own instincts, hoping they are still sharp enough to find the truth and a killer who can annihilate an entire city.

"CONNELLY'S MY MAN!"
- Janet Evanovich, People

"DAllLING... BRILLIANT."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"[BOSCH IS] ONE OF THE MOST COMPELLING HEROES OF MODERN CRIME FICTION."
- Associated Press

"CONNELLY IS, QUITE SIMPLY, THE BEST OF THE BEST."
- Philadelphia Inquirer

9
DRAGONS

For many years Detective Harry Bosch has known Fortune Liquors, a small store in tough south L.A.  A matchbook he once picked up there had a motto - Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself - that guided him through some of his darkest days.  Now the store's owner has been murdered.  With the help of another detective, Bosch uncovers a link between the death and a lethal, far-reaching crime ring.  And instantly his world explodes.  His own daughter, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him.  With the stakes so high and so personal, the desperate Bosch must travel to a place known as Nine Dragons and risk everything to reclaim what belongs to him.

"One of the best in this series... works as a gripping police procedural, an intense character study, and an international thriller."
- Miami Herald

"Coiled tight with suspense...  Connelly remains a master."
- Los Angeles Times

THE DROP

Given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, Detective Harry Bosch wants cases more fiercely than ever - and in one morning he gets two.  DNA from a 1989 murder matches that of a twenty-nine-year-old convicted rapist.  Was he an eight-year-old killer, or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab?

When a city councilman's son jumps - or is dropped - from a window at the Chateau Marmont, Bosch is called to a death scene fraught with internal politics.  Bosch's old nemesis, the coulcilman demands that Bosch handle the investigation.

Now relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch make two chilling discoveries: a sadistic killer has been operating unknown in the city for more than two decades - and a political conspiracy threatens to reveal the dark history of the police department itself.

"A GREAT STORY OF MANY PIECES THAT COALESCE INTO PAGE-TURNING LITERATURE."
- Boston Globe

"CONNELLY WRITES COPS BETTER THAN ANYONE IN THE BUSINESS."
New York Post

THE BLACK BOX

Harry Bosch first encountered journalist Anneke Jespersen in a dark alleyway.  She'd been shot, execution-style, on the night Los Angeles burned in riots and the police protected no one.  His investigation was reassigned and the murder was never solved.  Now, twenty years later, Bosch comes across shocking evidence - a gun used in recent crimes is the same one that killed Anneke Jespersen.  With this sliver of a lead, Bosch must pry open the case that he has never been able to forget.

The investigation will stretch from the roughest neighborhoods of Los Angeles to distant battlegrounds where Jespersen once covered bloody conflicts.  What really brought her to Los Angeles?  And in a new age, will Bosch find the "black box," the one piece of evidence that pulls the case together - and makes justice possible at last?

"I decided several years ago that this is the finest crime series written by an American, and nothing in the new book changes my mind."
-Washington Post

"Continues [Connelly's] streak of telling stellar crime stories... one of the top detectives in crime fiction."
-Chicago Sun-Times

"[Bosch is] one of the most popular and eduring figures in American crime fiction."
- Chicago Tribune

THE BURNING ROOM

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime.  So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent.

Now Bosch and his new partner, Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving a murder that turns out to be highly charged and politically sensitive.  Beginning with the bullet that has been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old evidence, and these soon reveal that the shooting was anything but random.  When their work starts to threaten careers and lives, Bosch and Soto must decide whether it's worth risking everything to find the truth, or if it's safer to let some secrets stay buried.

THE CROSSING

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help.  A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man.  The murder rap seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it's a setup.

Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case.  The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: If Haller's client didn't do it, then who did?  With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging.  Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

Thrilling, fast-paced, and impossible to put down, THE CROSSING shows without a shadow of a doubt that Connelly is "a master of building suspense" (Wall Street Journal).

"Ingeniously constructed and ambitious in scope."
- Washington Post

"Another great character study mixed with a truly baffling puzzle."
- Associated Press

From audible.com:

Unstoppable detective Harry Bosch returns in a new thriller from New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly.

Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from 30 years with the LAPD speak for themselves.

Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire has less than six months to live and a lifetime of regrets. He hires Bosch to find out whether he has an heir. Using all of his cold-case skills, Bosch pieces together a 65-year-old mystery and finds out that the case is not as simple - or as cold - as he thought.

Swift, unpredictable, and thrilling, The Wrong Side of Goodbye proves once again that "Connelly is still very much in his prime" (Washington Post).

THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF TRUTH.  TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY.
BUT ONLY ONE BOSCH.

TWO KINDS OF TRUTH

Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered.  The clues lead into the dangerous world of prescription drug abuse.  To get to the people at the top, Bosch must go undercover in the shadowy world of organized crime.

Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it.  If this conviction is overturned, every case Bosch ever worked on will be called into question.  As usual, he must fend for himself as he tries to clear his name and keep a clever killer in prison.

The two cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way, Bosch discovers there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.

"Connelly writes cops better than anyone in the business."
- New York Post

When Detective Renée Ballard returns to Hollywood Station to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets, she's shocked that it's retired detective Harry Bosch working a cold case.  Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself.

The murder was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway whose body was left in a dumpster like trash.  Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened, and to finally bring a killer to justice.  The two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.

DARK SACRED NIGHT for the first time brings together two powerhouse detectives in a riveting story that unfolds with furious momentum.  And it shows once more why "there's no doubt Connelly is a master of crime fiction" (Associated Press).

"Connelly writes cops better than anyone in the business."
- NEW YORK POST

SOME CRIMES
LIGHT A FIRE THAT NEVER
GOES OUT...

A JUDGE MURDERED IN A CITY PARK
Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, defends the man accused.

A HOMELESS PERSON BURNED ALIVE
Detective Renée Ballard catches the case on the LAPD's notorious graveyard shift.

AN UNSOLVED HOMICIDE FROM A LIFETIME AGO
Harry Bosch is left a missing case file by his mentor who passed away.  Why did he keep the case all these years?  To find the truth - or bury it?

IN L.A. CRIME NEVER SLEEPS
But in Ballard, Bosch, and Haller: the fire always burns.  Will it light the way - or leave their lives in ashes?

"RELENTLESS ON THEIR OWN, BALLARD'S AND BOSCH'S
COMBINED SKILLS... COULD BE COMBUSTIBLE."
- Los Angeles Times

There's chaos in Hollywood on New Year's Eve.  Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air.  When reports start to roll in of shattered windshields and other damage, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.

It doesn't take long for Ballard to determine that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky.  Ballard's investigation leads her to look into another unsolved murder - a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch.

Ballard and Bosch team up once again to find out where the old and new cases intersect.  All the while, they must look over their shoulders.  The killer who has stayed undetected for so long knows they are coming after him.

"THOROUGHLY ENGROSSING... OFFERS PLENTY OF
SHOCKING SCENES AND CLEVER SURPRISES."
- Wall Street Journal

"FEW WRITERS CAN CAPTURE THE GRITTY STREETS OF LA -
AND TIE INNER WORKINGS OF THE LAPD - LIKE CONNELLY."
- Entertainment Weekly