Michael Connelly

Following his resurrection walk and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty. Representing the victim's family, Mickey's case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and...

The Waiting by Michael Connelly follows Rene Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit as they find a DNA link to a serial killer known as the Pillowcase Rapist. However, when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. At the same time, Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a...

The Lincoln Lawyer grapples with a haunting case in a gripping thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text "Call me ASAP - 187", and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Suddenly, Mickey's not just trying to get his client off a murder charge, but there is a more personal connection: the victim...

Detective Stilwell of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department has been exiled. Once he manned a mainland homicide desk; now internal politics have relegated him to a low-key post, policing rustic Catalina Island. He's beginning to think he could get used to it. It's all business as usual in his new territory, following up drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts, until Stilwell...

He's back . . . Private investigator Harry Bosch confronts a villain who's long been in hiding – a fiend known as The Poet. Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has...

Daisy Clayton's killer was never caught. In over ten years, there has been no breakthrough in her murder case. Detective Renee Ballard has faced everything the LAPD's notorious dusk-till-dawn graveyard shift has thrown at her. But, until tonight, she'd never met Harry Bosch—an ex-homicide detective consumed by the case. Soon, she too will become obsessed with the murder of Daisy...

May 1992, and after four LAPD officers are acquitted following the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives, homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With...

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in a modern thriller from No. 1 bestseller Michael Connelly - author of The Lincoln Lawyer and Angels Flight. In 1993, Homicide Detective Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found—dead or alive—and the case has haunted Bosch ever since. Thirteen years later, Bosch is back...

Young LAPD detective Renée Ballard has been relegated to the Late Show after filing a sexual harassment complaint against her supervisor. Working in a twilight world of tragedy and violence, Ballard never gets closure, each morning forced to turn her cases over to the day shift detectives. But one night she's called out to a brutal assault and then to...

Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2024 Mickey Haller, the tenacious defence attorney, finds himself taking on a seemingly impossible case. His new client, a woman serving time for the murder of her husband, a sheriff's deputy, might just be innocent after all. Despite having spent the last five years behind bars, she staunchly proclaims...

Superb crime writing from a master - Stephen Loosley, The Australian In The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly introduces us to Mickey Haller, a defence attorney who operates from the back of his Lincoln Town Car, travelling between courthouses in Los Angeles. Haller is known for defending a broad spectrum of clients, some of whom are just scraping by while others...

Amidst midnight chaos, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard shelters from the traditional New Year's Eve rain of lead as crowds of revellers shoot their guns into the air. Minutes later, she's at the scene of a local mechanic's death, but that fatal bullet didn't fall from the sky. And Ballard is still on the hunt for the Midnight Men, fiendish serial...

May 1992, and after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives, homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With...

When a body is found in a hotel room, reporters are soon all over the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics detective, apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating Los Angeles from the Mexican cartel. The LAPD are quick to declare...

A year ago, LAPD detective Rene Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny and endless red tape, but then took back her badge after being offered her dream job: building a new cold case unit. She makes Bosch an offer—if he works as a volunteer investigator for her, he can pick up the cold case that has haunted...

Michael Connelly is a powerhouse, an unstoppable force in crime fiction. The Waiting is proof he is at the top of his game."MICK HERRON, #1 bestselling author of SLOW HORSES IN COLD CASES, IT'S NOT THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU. IT'S THE WAITING. LAPD Detective Renée Ballard gets a DNA hit in a case that has gone unsolved for twenty...

Crime reporter Jack McEvoy thought he was familiar with death, but when he's notified of his brother's suicide, he is blindsided. Devastated, McEvoy decides to write a feature on police suicides, only to discover a sinister pattern of literary references across reports from various jurisdictions. Jack realises he may have unearthed a deviously hidden killer and made himself the next...

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor, John Jack Thompson, who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now John Jack is dead, and Harry inherits a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before—the unsolved...

When defence attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, the body of a client is discovered in the trunk of his Lincoln. Charged with murder and unable to make the exorbitant $5 million bail, Haller knows he's been framed and elects to defend himself. But that isn't so easy from a cell in the Twin Towers Jail in downtown...

In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but even criminals are having to make cut-backs. So for defence lawyer Mickey Haller, most of his new business is not about keeping people out of jail; it's about keeping a roof over their heads as the foreclosure business is booming. Lisa Trammel has been a client...

Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP—Deferred Retirement Option Plan—and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long. First, a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder, which points the finger...

The Waiting features Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit as they discover a DNA link to a serial killer known as the Pillowcase Rapist. However, when Ballard and her team close in on their suspect, they confront a perplexing web of secrets and legal obstacles. Simultaneously, Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a theft she can't report without giving...

LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. One Sunday he gets a call-out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive, Hollywood. At first sight, it looks like a routine drug overdose, but the one new puncture wound amid the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch unconvinced. To make matters...

Would you risk your life for a woman you've never met? A thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror. From the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, new number. When he checks his machine, he discovers messages for a woman named Lilly, and she...

When a body is found in a hotel room, reporters are soon all over the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics detective, apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating Los Angeles from the Mexican cartel. The LAPD are quick to declare...

Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2024 Defence attorney Mickey Haller has agreed to represent a woman who is in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy, and Haller enlists his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Even after five years in prison, his new client maintains her innocence. Reviewing the case,...

A lawyer is found murdered on the eve of a landmark trial at the foot of Angels Flight in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The superb sixth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. Bosch TV starts February 2015. Angels Flight sees Harry Bosch finding himself yet again in charge of a case that no one...

A brilliant, high-tension thriller set in the glittery, surreal worlds of Las Vegas casinos, from the bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer. A young woman finds herself caught up in a heist which may cost her the one thing she values more than her life... Ex-con Cassie Black planned to see out her parole quietly—but things rarely go to plan....

A Darkness More Than Night follows Harry Bosch as he becomes engulfed in a high-profile case captivating celebrity-obsessed Los Angeles. A movie director is accused of murdering an actress during an intimate encounter, then disguising the crime as a suicide. Bosch, both the arresting officer and the leading witness, is thrust into the centre of a trial attracting a frenzied...

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...

If the truth doesn't get him ... the lies will. Two Kinds of Truth sees Harry Bosch volunteering on cold cases for a small police department outside LA. When a rare double murder shakes the town, the local detectives look to Bosch. Their investigation will expose a sinister network hiding in plain sight, leaving a trail of broken lives in...

'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked. 'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might never have existed.' Harry Bosch is LA's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he only has himself to answer to. Soon he is hired by Whitney Vance, an ageing reclusive billionaire who...

The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly follows Jack McEvoy at what seems to be the end of his career as a crime reporter. Facing cuts, he has only 30 days left on the job. His final task? Training his young replacement. However, Jack has different plans. He intends to leave with a bang by crafting a story worthy of journalism’s highest...

Death is my beat . . . Jack McEvoy specialises in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his experience 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...

When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the henhouse. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup,...

When a physicist is murdered in Los Angeles on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam, a site with a stunning view over the city, it seems the killer has no fear of publicity. And when it's discovered that the victim turned over a quantity of a lethal chemical to his killer before he died, Harry knows he has more than...

Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he has not forgotten Rachel. He has a special present for her. The Narrows follows Harry Bosch as he adjusts to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and a...

Young LAPD detective Renée Ballard has been relegated to the Late Show after filing a sexual harassment complaint against her supervisor. Working in a twilight world of tragedy and violence, Ballard never gets closure, each morning forced to turn her cases over to the day shift detectives. But one night she's called out to a brutal assault and then to...

Harry's life is a mess: his house has been condemned, his girlfriend has left him, he's drinking too much, and he's had to turn in his badge after attacking his commanding officer. The reinstatement of his badge is subject to psychiatric testing, and at first, Bosch is resistant. Then he realises there's one issue underlying all the others: the brutal...

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Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired his half-brother, the maverick Defence Attorney Mickey Haller, to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn't the way he wanted to go, Bosch has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits. Until Mickey asks him to help...

The Closers (Harry Bosch Book 11) sees Harry back in action, assigned to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. Together, these detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed-race girl. The police department has...

Not many murder victims die a decade after the crime, so when Orlando Merced dies ten years after being shot, Bosch catches a case with a fresh body and virtually no evidence. Partnered with rookie detective Lucia Soto, Bosch begins to see political dimensions to the case—a case where, despite the seemingly impossible odds, failure to find the killer is...

Nine Dragons follows Harry Bosch as he is assigned to a homicide call in South Los Angeles. The case takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot and killed behind the counter in an apparent robbery. Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. However,...

Fed up with the hypocrisy of the LAPD, Harry Bosch has resigned and is forced to find a new way of life. But retirement doesn't suit him. He has always devoted himself to justice and 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...

Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, he realises he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. Jack investigates against the warnings of the police and his own editor, walking a thin line between investigation and obsession, and makes...

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...

Season One of the ten-part television series BOSCH, starring Titus Welliver as Detective Harry Bosch, is based on three Harry Bosch thrillers: The Concrete Blonde, City of Bones and Echo Park. In 1993, Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found—dead or alive—and the case has haunted Bosch ever since....

Season One of the ten-part television series BOSCH, starring Titus Welliver as Detective Harry Bosch, is based on three Harry Bosch thrillers: The Concrete Blonde, City of Bones, and Echo Park. When the bones of a boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories from his past. Unearthing...

Blood Work — that's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is keeping him alive. Then a newspaper report of his brush with death brings him an unwanted visitor. Graciela Rivers reveals to McCaleb that the anonymous donor of his heart was her...

Ex-FBI profiler Terry McCaleb called his old job of hunting down serial killers blood work. Nowadays the only blood work he cares about is for his heart transplant. Eight weeks ago he was dead; now someone else’s heart keeps him alive. Then Terry is informed that the anonymous donor of his heart was a murder victim and remains the focus...

Terry McCaleb, one of the most effective serial-killer investigators in the history of the FBI, hunts down his heart donor's killer. An unputdownable story from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. Blood Work - that's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago, he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is...

Harry Bosch meets an ex-FBI profiler in one of the most disturbing cases he has faced... From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer. BOSCH TV starts February 2015. Terry McCaleb's enforced quiet lifestyle on the island of Catalina is a far cry from the hectic excitement of his former role as an FBI profiler. However, when small-time criminal Edward...

An execution on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam entangles Bosch with FBI Agent Rachel Walling and Homeland Security. The brilliant thirteenth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. When a physicist is murdered in LA, it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on the Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning...

Harry Bosch is back in Homicide after disciplinary leave. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of 'trunk music'—a Mafia hit, the victim shot in his own vehicle—but the LAPD's Organized Crime Unit is curiously uninterested. When Harry starts to...

HOW DO YOU FIND A KILLER WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU? 'AS EXCITING AS ANYTHING CONNELLY HAS WRITTEN' THE TIMES * Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he's never been accused of being one himself. Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his...

Harry Bosch works cold cases, helping out the under-funded San Fernando police department. When a double murder at a local pharmacy is called in, Bosch is the most seasoned detective on the scene. But with experience, come the ghosts of long-forgotten crimes. A death row inmate claims Bosch framed him, and that new DNA evidence proves it. The LAPD investigators...

Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated - by twenty-two miles of ocean - from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven. Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane...

FaceOff is an exhilarating anthology that brings together an unprecedented collection of stories from the world's most celebrated thriller writers. Curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW), this unique compilation pairs beloved characters from different series, weaving fresh narratives that are both imaginative and electrifying. Each story crafts a gripping encounter, allowing readers to revel in the collision of worlds...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller enlists the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband. Inspiration for the #1 TV show on Netflix, The Lincoln Lawyer series.​ Defence attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of...

Suspended from his job with the LAPD, Harry Bosch must face the darkest parts of his past to track down his mother's killer... even if it costs him his life. 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. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's even...

In the depths of the Nevada desert, FBI agent Rachel Walling and former LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must confront The Poet, a terrifying serial killer who leads them down a dark and twisted path. FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl. Following his "resurrection walk" and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl. Following his "resurrection walk" and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company...

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...

A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year "A masterpiece" — LAPD detective Renée Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year's Eve (Publishers Weekly). There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's...

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch's "white whale"—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralisation, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she...

Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author. "One of the finest legal thrillers of the last decade" --Associated Press On the night he celebrates a big win, defence attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in...

The bestselling legal thriller—and upcoming Netflix series—features charismatic defence attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy. However, as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car,...

Longtime defence attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry...

When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church—the Dollmaker—the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers. But four years later, Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse, Bosch has just received a note eerily...

An incredible writer - Richard Osman A superb natural storyteller - Lee Child When Harry Bosch was eleven years old, his mother was murdered and he became a ward of the state, housed in MacLaren Children's Center, a notorious facility where abuse was rampant. Decades after its closure, a massive class action lawsuit has resulted in a multibillion-dollar settlement for...

Things are finally looking up for the Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, he is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent dies, Haller unexpectedly inherits all Vincent's clients, putting his stalled career back on track at a stroke. Now he's defending a high-profile and potentially lucrative murder case with a trial that promises...

LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call-out: a body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland Drive in Hollywood, and it looks like a routine drug overdose. But one new puncture wound amid the scars of old tracks leaves Bosch with questions. Worse, Harry Bosch recognises the victim. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam, running...

Defence lawyer Mickey Haller works out of his Lincoln Town Car, travelling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind: bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence; it's about negotiation and manipulation. When a Beverly Hills playboy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Mickey...

Detective Stilwell of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department has been exiled. Once he manned a mainland homicide desk; now internal politics have relegated him to a low-key post, policing rustic Catalina Island. He's beginning to think he could get used to it. It's all business as usual in his new territory, following up drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts, until Stilwell...

There's chaos in Hollywood on New Year's Eve. At the end of the countdown, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard seeks shelter from the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air. Minutes later, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle...

The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail of a cop killer whose victims are selected all too carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes...