Series: HARRY BOSCH

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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 organised crime unit is oddly uninterested, but Harry thinks they’re wrong. He follows the money trail...

An activist attorney is killed in a cute little LA 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 numerous—that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unravelling. And the hunt for a killer...