| MICHAEL CONNELLY'S BOOKSHELF | |
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The Poet | Blood Work | Void Moon | Chasing The Dime | |||
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Harry Bosch Series |
The Black Echo | The Black Ice | The Concrete Blonde | The Last Coyote | Trunk Music | Angels Flight | A Darkness More Than Night |
| Harry Bosch Series No.1 | Harry Bosch Series No.2 | Harry Bosch Series No.3 | Harry Bosch Series No.4 | Harry Bosch Series No.5 | Harry Bosch Series No.6 | Harry Bosch Series No.7 | |
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The Harry Bosch Novels:
Black Echo / Black Ice / Concrete Blonde |
City Of Bones |
The Harry Bosch Novels
Volume 2: The Last Coyote / Trunk Music / Angels Flight |
Lost Light | The Narrows | Two Great Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice | The Closers | |
| Harry Bosch Series Omnibus | Harry Bosch Series No.8 | Harry Bosch Series Omnibus | Harry Bosch Series No.9 | Harry Bosch Series No.10 | Harry Bosch Series Omnibus | Harry Bosch Series No.11 | |
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| Books written by Michael Connelly |
| The Black Echo (First published 1992) | |
 This was the first novel
written by Michael Connelly and featured Harry Bosch. For Los Angeles PD 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 their limit. Joining with an enigmatic and seductive female FBI agent, pitted against enemies inside 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. (Source: Publisher) ______ "One of those books you read with your knuckles —just hanging on until it's over…good and thrilling." — New York Times Book Review"Connelly…transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel." — Publisher's Weekly "Don't miss this one. ..a really wonderful, readable book, and I'm hoping he's working fast on a follow-up." — The Atlanta Journal and Constitution "It is a wonderfully written tale that not only deals with putting old nightmares to rest but also with an outsider struggling to be allowed to succeed within a bureaucratic maze." — The Orlando Sentinel |
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Awards and Publication Information |
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The Black Echo won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel
awarded by the Mystery Writers of America.
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| The Black Ice (First published 1993) | |
 This was the
second novel
written by Michael Connelly and featured Harry Bosch.
In this fast-paced sequel to
The Black Echo, LAPD
detective Harry Bosch continues to investigate the drug-trafficking
underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. 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.(Source: Publisher) ______
"Connelly knows crime, cops and criminals…Plan ahead before you read this
buzz-saw of a novel…Once you start, you will finish." — Booklist
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This was the
third novel
written by Michael Connelly and featured Harry Bosch.They
called him The Dollmaker...
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.
(Source: Publisher)
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. (Source: Publisher)