Michael Connelly

The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel

Michael Connelly

• 2006 Macavity-Novel winner
• 2006 Shamus-Novel winner
• 2006 Anthony-Novel nominee
• 2006 Edgar–Novel nominee
• 2006 Steel Dagger shortlist
• 2005 LATimes–Mystery finalist
• Score: 44.56

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 pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend the clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It’s no wonder that he is despised by cops, prosecutors, and even some of his own clients. From bikers to con artists to drunk drivers and drug dealers, they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. But when a…

City of Bones

Michael Connelly

• 2003 Anthony-Novel winner
• 2003 Barry-Novel winner
• 2003 Edgar–Novel nominee
• 2003 Macavity-Novel nominee
• 2002 Dagger shortlist
• Score: 38.53

When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn’t deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child’s identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten.

At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom for Bosch-until a stunningly blown mission leaves Bosch in more trouble that ever before in his turbulent…

Blood Work

Michael Connelly

• 1999 Anthony-Novel winner
• 1999 Macavity-Novel winner
• 1999 Barry-Novel nominee
• 1999 Edgar–Novel nominee
• Score: 32.49

Blood Work—that’s what Terrell McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Until a heart condition forced him to take early retirement, he headed all investigations of serial murders in the Los Angeles area. Now he is recovering from a heart transplant operation and leads a quiet life. But McCaleb’s calm seas turn rough when a story in the L.A. Times brings him face-to-face with Graciela Rivers, a darkly intriguing woman who hooks him with the story of her sister’s unsolved murder. Against doctor’s orders and his own better judgement, McCaleb agrees to…

Trunk Music: A Harry Bosch Novel

Michael Connelly

• 1998 Barry-Novel winner
• 1998 Macavity-Novel nominee
• 1997 Hammett nominee
• Score: 22.48

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…

The Poet

Michael Connelly

• 1997 Anthony-Novel winner
• 1996 Hammett nominee
• Score: 16.47

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.…

The Black Echo: A Harry Bosch Novel

Michael Connelly

• 1993 Edgar-1st Novel winner
• 1993 Hammett nominee
• Score: 16.43

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 horror 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…

The Last Coyote: A Harry Bosch Novel

Michael Connelly

• 1996 Anthony-Novel nominee
• 1995 Hammett nominee
• Score: 12.46

Harry Bosch’s life is a mess. His new 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 twelve, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever even accused of the crime. Harry opens up the…

Echo Park: A Harry Bosch Novel

Michael Connelly

• 2006 LATimes–Mystery winner
• Score: 10.56

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 two 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.

A Darkness More Than Night

Michael Connelly

• 2002 Barry-Novel nominee
• Score: 6.52

Terrence McCaleb is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile that McCaleb develops is someone he has known and worked with in the past: Detective Harry Bosch.

A Darkness More Than Night is a fresh and lightning-paced…

Angels Flight: Detective Harry Bosch Mystery

Michael Connelly

• 2000 Barry-Novel nominee
• Score: 6.5

The man most hated by the LAPD—a black lawyer who has made his name by bringing lawsuits alleging racism and brutality by police officers—has been found murdered on the eve of a high-profile trial. The list of suspects included half the police force. And Harry Bosch is the detective chosen to head the investigation.

The political dangers of the case are huge. If it’s not investigation fairly, the public outcry could make the Rodney King riots look tame. But a full investigation will take Bosch into the ugliest corners of law enforcement.

To make matters…