Edited by David Baldacci, read by multiple narrators. S&S Audio, , 10 CDs, 11 hrs., unabridged, $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-7004-3
This anthology, in which members of the International Thriller Writers society double up on 11 short mysteries featuring their famous protagonists in tandem, is both gimmicky and intriguing—and surprisingly testosterone-soaked. All but two of the...
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Michael Connelly, Author Little Brown and Company $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-15361-4
Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide desk to the lowly...
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Michael Connelly, Little, Brown, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-06948-9
In Connelly's engaging second thriller to team defense attorney Mickey Haller and LAPD detective Harry Bosch (after The Brass Verdict), new DNA evidence leads to the release of Jason Jessup, who was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Melissa Landy...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-15391-1
The copy on the galley of Connelly's slick new thriller doesn't mention Hitchcock, but most reviews probably will, with the novel's many surprises and "wrong man" plot line. Even the opening echoes Hitch's North by Northwest,
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Michael Connelly, Author Little Brown and Company $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-15382-9
LAPD detective Hieronymous ``Harry'' Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When...
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Michael Connelly, Author Little Brown and Company $30 (392p) ISBN 978-0-316-15383-6
In this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly's LAPD detective Hieronymous ``Harry'' Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-winning The Black Echo , is up against the law as well as his superiors. The widow of...
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Michael Connelly, Author Little Brown and Company $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-15390-4
In his fourth outing, LAPD Homicide Detective Harry Bosch (The Concrete Blonde, et al.) confronts deep family, police and political secrets as he probes an unsolved murder of decades earlier. Smart, tough, laconic and, under all that, compassionate,
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Michael Connelly, Author St. Martin's Press $7.99 (418p) ISBN 978-0-312-95048-4
Connelly transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel, featuring Hieronymus (aka Harry) Bosch, a former hero cop exiled to the small-time Beverly Hills force. In July, Little, Brown will...
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Michael Connelly, Author St. Martin's Press $7.99 (390p) ISBN 978-0-312-95500-7
Connelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, combines courtroom drama and police procedural in this thriller about a serial killer thought dead. (July)
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Michael Connelly, Author St. Martin's Press $7.99 (406p) ISBN 978-0-312-95845-9
The latest installment of the Harry Bosch series has the LAPD homicide detective reopening the 30-year-old unsolved murder of his mother. (July)
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Michael Connelly, Author St. Martin's Press $7.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-312-95281-5
In this surehanded sequel to The Black Echo , LAPD detective Hieronymous ``Harry'' Bosch stalks drug traffickers in L.A. and Mexico. (July)
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Michael Connelly, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-15398-0
In a departure from his crime novels featuring LAPD's Harry Bosch, Connelly (The Last Coyote) sets Denver journalist Jack McEvoy on an intricate case where age-old evils come to flower within Internet technology. Jack's twin brother, Sean, a Denver...
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Michael Connelly, Author Little Brown and Company $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-15244-0
From the opening bars, when the body of Tony Aliso is pulled from the trunk of his Rolls Royce Silver Cloud on Mulholland Drive, to the final grace note on a Hawaiian beach, Connelly has crafted a jazzy, funky, roller coaster of a book. The return...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $27.99 (419p) ISBN 978-0-316-16630-0
Bestseller Connelly comments on the plight of print journalism in a nail-biting thriller featuring reporter Jack McEvoy, last seen in 2004's The Narrows
. When Jack is laid off from the L.A. Times
with 14 days' notice to tie up loose ends, he...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-73495-0
Bestseller Connelly's compelling 12th Harry Bosch novel (after 2005's The Closers
) offers some new wrinkles on a familiar theme—the aging detective haunted by the one who got away. In Bosch's case, the elusive quarry is the man...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-316-15377-5
The many fans of perennially bestselling mystery author Connelly will certainly lap up this collection of his articles written during his former life as a crime journalist in Florida and California. In three sections, "The Cops," "The...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $21.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-01895-1
Bestseller Connelly's dazzling 13th Harry Bosch novel (after 2006's Echo Park
) reunites Bosch with his former flame, FBI agent Rachel Walling. Bosch must break in a new partner, rookie Iggy Ferras, when they're called to look into the...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $26.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-316-73493-6
Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes, but he's no slickster trolling for loopholes in the ethics laws. He'
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-73494-3
LAPD detective Harry Bosch, hero of last year's The Narrows
and other Connelly thrillers, is back on the force after a two-year retirement. Assigned to the Open Unsolved (cold cases) unit and teamed with former partner Kiz Rider, Harry's...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-15530-4
There's a gravitas to the mystery/thrillers of Michael Connelly, a bedrock commitment to the value of human life and the need for law enforcement pros to defend that value, that sets his work apart and above that of many of his contemporaries....
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $26.99 (422p) ISBN 978-0-316-16629-4
Bestseller Connelly delivers one of his most intricate plots to date in his 20th book, a beautifully executed crime thriller. When L.A. lawyer Mickey Haller, last seen in The Lincoln Lawyer
(2005), inherits the practice and caseload of a fellow...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-15460-4
Award-winning former crime reporter Connelly (The Black Echo; City of Bones) hits all the right notes with this latest in his Edgar-winning mystery series featuring sax-playing L.A. detective Harry Bosch. Even though this marks the ninth outing for...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-15405-5
Harry Bosch is at the top of his form—which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch's...
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Michael Connelly, Author . Little, Brown $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-16631-7
Bestseller Connelly nimbly balances Harry Bosch's personal and professional lives, both of which take a substantial beating, in his 14th novel to feature the LAPD homicide detective. Bosch, last seen with his recently discovered half-brother,...
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Michael Connelly, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-15399-7
Connelly follows up Trunk Music with a tautly paced, seductively involving thriller about a murder that is less random than it seems. Ex-FBI agent Terry McCaleb is recuperating from a heart transplant when beautiful Graciela Rivers walks up to his...
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Michael Connelly, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $24.5 (393p) ISBN 978-0-316-15219-8
Hollywood homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch (Trunk Music, 1996, etc.) is up to his very stiff neck in politics, police corruption and racial tension. The echo of the Rodney King case is almost deafening when Howard Elias, an African...
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Michael Connelly, read by Titus Welliver. Hachette Audio, 10.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-61969-428-6
Welliver, who portrays protagonist Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch in the Amazon Prime TV adaptation of Connelly’s series, clearly has no problem embodying the tough, almost obsessively dedicated Southern California crime fighter. But the actor’s previous
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Michael Connelly, Author, Len Cariou, Read by , read by Len Cariou. Hachette Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-589-6
No matter how much critics and readers love him, Connelly's Harry Bosch is definitely a downer. To catch the spirit of the popular series without sending listeners leaping out of their windows requires an unusually talented reader, who can take...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Len Cariou, Read by , read by Len Cariou. Hachette Audio $49.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-743-9
The murder of an elderly Chinese owner of a liquor store thrusts Bosch into the unfamiliar world of Chinese immigrants, Asian gangs, and the ruthless triad crime syndicate. Bosch works the case with his usual tenacity; threats warning him to drop...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Len Cariou, Read by , read by Len Cariou. Time Warner AudioBooks $36.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-488-3
At the fade of Connelly's City of Bones, his hero, Harry Bosch, said goodbye to the Los Angeles Police Department he'd served loyally but unhappily for nine phenomenally successful novels, raising the question: what now? This new work...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Len Cariou, Read by , read by Len Cariou. Hachette Audio $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-000-3
Reviewers were somewhat abrupt about perennial bestseller Connelly’s 13th Harry Bosch novel: “a quick read, almost half the length of Connelly’s previous novels,” said one; “a tasty hors d’oeuvre” quipped...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Len Cariou, Read by , read by Len Cariou. Time Warner AudioBooks $46.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-020-4
Connelly's bruised but unbeaten crime buster, Harry Bosch, is back in harness at the Los Angeles Police Department after a two-book retirement (Lost Light
, The Narrows
) during which he sought justice as a private eye. Luckily, reader Cariou...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Len Cariou, Read by , read by Len Cariou. Time Warner AudioBooks $46.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-635-1
Those who are familiar with the audio adaptations of Connelly's books will be delighted to see that Cariou lends his talents to Connelly's latest mystery, which is a sequel to The Poet
(1996). At the center of this engrossing thriller is...
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Michael Connelly, read by Len Cariou. Hachette Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $39.98 ISBN 978-1-60024-723-1
In Connelly’s latest, Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch has to deal with two puzzling cases. The first involves DNA evidence from a 20-year-old unsolved rape and murder that matches up with a convict who would have been just eight years old...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Len Cariou, Read by, Nancy McKeon, Read by , read by Len Cariou, Nancy McKeon, Carl Franklin. Hachette Audio $31.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-220-8
Connelly's fondly remembered memoir of his pre-novel writing years as a crime reporter splits reading duties among three performers: Broadway veteran Cariou, acclaimed director Franklin (Devil in a Blue Dress
) and familiar audiobook voice...
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Michael Connelly, read by Adam Grupper. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11 hrs., $17.98 ISBN 978-1-60941-786-4
Attorney Mickey Haller, who's making his fourth appearance in Connelly's April novel, The Fifth Witness, got his start in this 2005 legal thriller, the audio version of which is being reprised to tie in with the Lionsgate film adaptation. Its return
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Michael Connelly, Author, Adam Grupper, Read by , read by Adam Grupper. TimeWarner Audio $46.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-088-4
Connelly's first legal thriller has gotten virtually universal raves for its courage, plotting and humor—and those qualities also make the audio version a triumph. Grupper vividly brings to life Connelly's large cast of characters:...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Peter Giles, Read by , read by Peter Giles. Hachette Audio $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-401-8
Arguably this country's best crime yarn spinner, Connelly has not only concocted an extremely clever plot for the second novel featuring Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, he has included his longtime series hero Harry Bosch as a supporting player...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Peter Giles, Read by , read by Peter Giles. Hachette $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-574-9
Connelly hits it out of the park with one of the best thrillers of the year. Seasoned reporter Jack McEvoy has just been laid off from his job at the Los Angeles Times
and—to add insult to injury—is assigned to train his replacement, a...
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Michael Connelly, Author, Jonathan Davis, Read by , read by Jonathan Davis. Time Warner AudioBooks $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-450-0
Former journalist and Edgar Award winner Connelly (City of Bones) skillfully unfolds a story of obsessive curiosity and taut psychological suspense ideally suited to audio translation. A burgeoning technologies company, broken engagement and new...
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Michael Connelly, Author, L. J. Ganser, Read by Hachette Audio $24.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-739-2
Cassie Black, a resourceful ex-con, plans to burgle the Las Vegas casino's high roller suite where, five years before, a previous attempt resulted in her arrest and the death of her lover. It's an intriguing premise, and L.J. Ganser...
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Michael Connelly, read by Peter Giles, Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $39.98 ISBN 978-1-60024-725-5
Connelly's new thriller features two of his series heroes—the wily defense attorney Mickey Haller and his half-brother, LAPD detective Harry Bosch. This time Haller is working the other side of the courtroom, as a special independent prosecutor...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-06943-4
Bestseller Connelly’s excellent 18th Harry Bosch novel (after 2011’s The Drop) opens in 1992, a few days after the acquittal of the cops who beat up Rodney King incited an eruption of violence in Los Angeles (“Flames from a thousand fires reflected...
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Michael Connelly, read by Peter Giles. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $24.98 ISBN 978-1-61969-982-3
Connelly’s novel follows series hero Harry Bosch’s investigation into the murder of an African-American defense attorney who made a career of courtroom victories at the expense of the Los Angeles Police Department. This installment in the series is...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-06951-9
Edgar-winner Connelly's fifth novel featuring Mickey Haller (aka "the Lincoln Lawyer"), the L.A. defense attorney who uses a Lincoln town car as a mobile office, opens with a brilliantly staged bit of legal maneuvering, but the real action begins in
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Michael Connolly. Little, Brown, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-22594-6
Bestseller Connolly’s canny detective, Harry Bosch, remains a compelling lead, but even longtime fans may feel that his creator gives him a few too many fortuitous breaks in his 21st outing (after 2015’s The Crossing). Bosch’s long career with the...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-22598-4
The title of this excellent series launch from bestseller Connelly (The Wrong Side of Goodbye and 20 other Harry Bosch novels) refers to the midnight shift at LAPD’s Hollywood Division. Det. Renée Ballard has landed there in retribution for filing...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-22590-8
Bestseller Connelly’s fast-paced 22nd Harry Bosch novel (after 2016’s The Wrong Side of Goodbye) puts the aging L.A. detective, now a volunteer with the San Fernando PD, squarely in the middle of two cases. The execution of two local pharmacists—fath
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $29 (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-48480-0
LAPD Det. Renée Ballard, first seen in 2017’s The Late Show, makes a welcome return in this outstanding, complex police procedural. Relegated to the night shift at the Hollywood Station following a sexual harassment suit against her former...
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Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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Michael Connelly, read by Peter J. Fernandez. Hachette Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $25 ISBN 978-1-4789-0107-5
First published in 2002, this novel featuring Connelly’s popular protagonist Harry Bosch remains one of the author’s better entries, a perfectly plotted, richly detailed account of the homicide detective’s nonstop search for the perpetrator of a 28-y
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-22593-9
An autopsy opens Edgar-winner Connelly’s superb 19th Harry Bosch mystery (after 2012’s The Black Box). Orlando Merced, a mariachi musician, was transformed into a symbol for urban violence by an opportunistic mayoral candidate when he was wounded a...
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Michael Connelly, read by Titus Welliver. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $40 ISBN 978161969-426-2
In this latest entry in Connelly’s long-running Harry Bosch series, the driven detective, with only a year left before retirement, is assigned a new partner—a rookie named Lucia Soto—whose dedication to the job convinces Harry to become her mentor....
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-53942-5
Edgar-winner Connelly’s entertaining if subpar third thriller featuring L.A. reporter Jack McEvoy (after 2009’s The Scarecrow) finds McEvoy, once a bestselling true crime author, working for FairWarning, an online news site that focuses on consumer...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-22588-5
In bestseller Connelly’s masterly 20th Harry Bosch novel (after 2014’s The Burning Room), former gang member Da’Quan Foster, a client of Bosch’s half-brother, DA Mickey Haller, awaits trial for a rape and murder. The case appears to be a slam dunk...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-56379-6
At the start of Connelly’s unputdownable sixth crime thriller costarring Renée Ballard (after Desert Star), the LAPD detective’s badge and gun are stolen from her car while she’s surfing. In the process of getting them back, she uncovers evidence...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316563-76-5
Bestseller Connelly’s paint-by-numbers seventh legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after 2020’s The Law of Innocence) again teams the L.A. defense attorney with his half-brother, ex-LAPD officer Harry Bosch, who holds down his own Connelly...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-48565-4
In bestseller Connelly’s thrilling fifth outing for Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch (after 2021’s The Dark Hours), Ballard invites the retired Bosch to volunteer for the LAPD’s newly revived Open-Unsolved Unit, which she’s running, enticing him with...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-48564-7
In bestseller Connelly’s stellar fourth novel featuring LAPD Det. Renée Ballard (after 2019’s The Night Fire), Ballard leads the way on two separate cases: the shooting death of Javier Raffa, a former gang member, and the search for a pair of serial
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Michael Connelly. Brown, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-48562-3
L.A. defense attorney Mickey Haller takes on the hardest case of his career in bestseller Connelly’s superlative sixth Lincoln Lawyer novel (following 2015’s The Crossing). After the body of a career con artist is found in the trunk of Haller’s...
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-48561-6
The sins of the past cast a long shadow in bestseller Connelly’s superlative second novel featuring detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch together (after 2018’s Dark Sacred Night). After the funeral of former LAPD Det. John Jack Thompson, the man’
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