Michael Connelly

The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"—doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites,...

Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge — but a murderous Las Vegas crime ring might prove to be more than he bargained for.
It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit. But the LAPD's organized crime unit is curiously uninterested, and when Harry...

Cal Moore, del departamento de Narcóticos, investigaba sobre una nueva droga de diseño -el "hielo negro"- cuando fue encontrado en un motel con un tiro en la cabeza y una nota en el bolsillo. Para Harry Bosch lo importante no son los hechos aislados, si no el hilo que los mantiene unidos. Y sus averiguaciones sobre el sospechoso suicidio de Moore parecen trazar una línea recta entre los traficantes que merodean por Hollywood Boulevard y los

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Taking us from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, from Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post-Civil War frontier, these riveting stories trace the perils and occasional triumphs of lawmen and -women who put themselves in harm's way to face down the bad guys. Some of them even walk the edge of becoming bad guys themselves. In T. Jefferson Parker's "Skinhead Central," an ex-cop and his wife find unexpected menace in the idyllic...

Harry Bosch participa como testigo en un juicio en el que se acusa a un director de cine del asesinato de una actriz. Mientras tanto, el ya retirado agente del FBI, Terry McCaleb, investiga un homicidio complejo. Su primer examen del escenario del crimen le lleva en pos de un asesino metódico con un gusto por los rituales y la venganza: junto al cadáver de la víctima han sido halladas la figura de una lechuza y un extraño mensaje en latín.

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Jack McEvoy ist Polizeireporter bei den Rocky Moun­ tain News in Denver. Als er vom Tod seines Zwillingsbruders Sean, Detective bei der Mordkommission, erfährt, gerät sein Leben vollkommen aus dem Gleichgewicht. Die Polizei geht von Selbstmord aus: Jacks Bruder soll sich in seinem Auto erschossen haben. Einen Abschiedsbrief habe er auch hinterlassen, auf der Windschutzscheibe: Out of space. Out of time. Ein Zitat von Edgar Allan Poe. Jack glaubt...

An Neujahr gräbt ein Hund in den Hollywood Hills einen Knochen aus. Der Besitzer des Hundes, ein Arzt, identifiziert den Knochen als Teil eines menschlichen Skeletts und alarmiert die Polizei. Bosch geht der Sache nach und entdeckt nicht weit vom Fundort weitere Skelettteile. Ein Forensiker des LAPD stellt fest, dass es sich um die Knochen eines etwa zehnjährigen Jungen handelt, seit über zwanzig Jahren tot - und dass der Junge schwer misshandelt...

In the mid-1970s, the city of Boston entered a period of upheaval on both its historic cobblestone streets and its legendary parquet basketball court. The Boston Celtics' long dominance of the NBA came to an abrupt end, and the city's image as a hub of social justice was shaken to its core. When the federal courts declared, in 1974, that the city was in violation of school desegregation rulings and would need to institute a busing program, Boston...

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the 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, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving the Late Show to rebuild...

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...