Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked, in the new legal thriller from the bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and THE BLACK ECHO, Michael Connelly. In the LA Police's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually non-existent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random in this gripping police procedural.

Harry Bosch Series

The Burning Room

Harry Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch. This time his job is to nail the killer of hot shot black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris, a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not only to reveal the real killer but to target and bring down the racist cops who beat up his client during a violent interrogation. Now it's all down to Bosch - and he's got to take a long, hard look at some of his colleagues in a police department that is rife with suspicion and hatred. Read by Peter Giles (p) 2013 Hachette Audio

Angels Flight

A major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey. There is no client as scary as an innocent man. From the bestselling author of THE GODS OF GUILT and BRASS VERDICT comes the first in the Mickey Haller legal thrillers. Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car, a Lincoln, taking whatever cases the system throws in his path. He's been a defence lawyer for a long time, and he knows just how to work the legal systems. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But then the case starts to fall apart, neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem - and Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.

Mickey Haller Series

The Lincoln Lawyer

In SUICIDE RUN, the apparent suicide of a beautiful young starlet turns out to be much more sinister than it seems. In CIELO AZUL, Bosch is haunted by a long-ago closed case - the murder of a teenage girl who was never identified. As her killer sits on death row, Bosch tries one last time to get the answers he has sought for years. In ONE DOLLAR JACKPOT, Bosch works the murder of a professional poker player whose skills have made her more than one enemy. Whether investigating a cold case or fresh blood, Bosch relentlessly pursues his quarry, always on the lookout for the "tell". In this first collection of Harry Bosch stories, Michael Connelly once again demonstrates that he is 'the greatest living American crime writer' (MIRROR). Read by Len Cariou (p) 2011 Hachette Audio

Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories

The brand new Harry Bosch thriller. Crime fiction doesn't get any better than this... * * * * * Harry Bosch works cold cases, helping out the under-funded San Fernando police department. When a double murder at a local pharmacy is called in, Bosch is the most seasoned detective on the scene. But with experience, come the ghosts of long-forgotten crimes. A death row inmate claims Bosch framed him, and that new DNA evidence proves it. The LAPD investigators say the case is watertight, leaving Bosch out in the wilderness to clear his name and keep a sadistic killer behind bars. There's only one person he can trust to help prove his innocence: Micky Haller. As both cases tangle around him, Bosch learns there are two kinds of truth: the kind that won't die and the kind that kills. * * * * * 'One of the world's greatest crime writers' Daily Mail 'Harry Bosch: one of the finest minds in crime fiction' Evening Standard 'Crime thriller writing of the highest order' Guardian 'A master of the genre' Stephen King 'Harry Bosch: one of the most iconic protagonists in crime fiction' Irish Times 'A crime writing genius' Independent on Sunday 'Michael Connelly's detective Harry Bosch has been in 19 novels of exceptional quality' The Times 'America's greatest living crime writer' Daily Express

Two Kinds of Truth

Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA's darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly. Read by Titus Welliver, star of BOSCH. 'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again. 'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.' Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared. Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment. Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth. (p) 2016 Hachette Audio

The Wrong Side of Goodbye

When a physicist is murdered in LA it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The Mulholland overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city. 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 just a single death to worry about. Alongside the forces of Homeland Security, Harry realises he must solve the murder or face unimaginable consequences. Read by Len Cariou (p) 2007 Hachette Audio

The Overlook

Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defense Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn't the way he wanted to go, Harry has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits. Until Mickey asks him to help on one of his cases, and suddenly Harry is back where he belongs, right in the centre of a particularly puzzling murder mystery. The difference is, this time Harry is working for the defense, aiming to prevent the accused, Da'Quan Foster, from being convicted. And not only does the prosecution seem to have a cast-iron case, but having crossed over to 'the dark side' as his former colleagues would put it, Harry is in danger of betraying the very principles he's lived by his whole career. Read by the star of BOSCH, Titus Welliver (p) 2015 Hachette Audio

The Crossing

CRIME NEVER SLEEPS. 'CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST MYSTERY/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR * * * * * Detective Renée Ballard works 'The Late Show', the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD. It's thankless work for a once-promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime. Some nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet. Two shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects. Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn't know - yet - is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past... The Late Show will keep you up all night: it's time to meet Detective Renée Ballard. * * * * * 'The new novel from America's greatest living crime writer is a gripping thrill ride that will entrance you and keep you reading until the small hours' Daily Express 'It has been more than ten years since Connelly, one of the world's greatest crime writers, last launched a major new character. Superb storytelling - this cements Connelly's place at the very top of the crime-writing tree' Daily Mail 'Classy and clever, with a tenacious heroine' Sunday Mirror 'Connelly achieves an enormous amount in these pages: he creates a new character who immediately leaps into life; and controls a complex, fast-paced plot full of surprises' Evening Standard 'The Late Show introduces a terrific female character: Detective Renée Ballard. The pacing is breathless ... Ballard has astonishing resourcefulness and bravery - she is complicated and driven' New York Times 'Although the usual Connelly fingerprints are in evidence here - the real achievement is the creation of his tenacious heroine, Ballard' Guardian 'Ballard is significantly more than a Bosch replacement or clone - an absorbing character on her own terms. Connelly has created yet another potentially iconic tarnished knight of those perennially mean streets' Irish Times 'A characteristically complex tale of murder and police corruption' Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the Week) 'First there was Detective Harry Bosch, then Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller, and now comes Renee Ballard, ace thriller writer Michael Connelly's first new protagonist in 10 years. A nail-bitingly exciting investigation featuring a finely realised new character from one of America's finest contemporary novelists' Irish Independent

The Late Show

When the bones of a boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories from his past. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he won't be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom - until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision... Read by Peter Jay Fernandez (p) 2002 Hachette Audio

City Of Bones

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. Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and as a new father. He gets a call, too, from the widow of a friend who died recently. Previously in his FBI career, the friend worked on the famous case tracking the killer known as The Poet. This fact alone makes some of the elements of his death doubly suspicious. And Harry Bosch is heading straight into the path of the most ruthless and inventive murderer he has ever encountered... Read by Len Cariou (p) 2004 Hachette Audio

The Narrows

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch in a modern thriller from No. 1 bestseller Michael Connelly - author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and ANGELS FLIGHT. In 1993 Homicide Detective Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since. Thirteen years later, Bosch is back in the Open Unsolved Crimes Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two killings is willing to confess to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of his victims, he says, is Marie Gesto. When investigating these previously unsolved crimes, Bosch begins to crack when he realises that he and his partner missed a clue that could have prevented the serial killer striking again.

Echo Park

The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary hold-up. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local Triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening. Read by Len Cariou (p) 2009 Hachette Audio

Nine Dragons

Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. 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 changed, but one thing hasn't - Harry's nemesis, Irving. The former Deputy Chief has been pushed from power and given a virtually meaningless new role. Full of vengeance, Irving calls Harry a 'retread'. He watches from the sidelines like an injured bear, hoping Harry will make a mistake... Read by Len Cariou (p) 2005 Hachette Audio

The Closers

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller! Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide! In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series characters—such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhyme—in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos: · Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in “Red Eye,” by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly · John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in “In the Nick of Time,” by Ian Rankin and Peter James · Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in “Gaslighted,” by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child · Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren in “The Laughing Buddha,” by M.J. Rose and Lisa Gardner · Paul Madriani vs. Alexandra Cooper in “Surfing the Panther,” by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein · Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in “Rhymes With Prey,” by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford · Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack in “Infernal Night,” by Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilson · Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber in “Pit Stop,” by Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay · Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona in “Silent Hunt,” by John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker · Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce in “The Devil’s Bones,” by Steve Berry and James Rollins · Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller in “Good and Valuable Consideration,” by Lee Child and Joseph Finder So sit back and prepare for a rollicking ride as your favorite characters go head-to-head with some worthy opponents in FaceOff—it’s a thrill-a-minute read.

FaceOff

A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of The Poet, from the global bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and BRASS VERDICT. Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour - a Pulitzer Prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a serial killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar. Jack is soon off on the crime beat and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming . . . (p) 2009 Hachette Audio

The Scarecrow

Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems but now he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer, Vincent, dies, and Haller gets an unexpected windfall: he inherits all Vincent's clients - putting his stalled career back on track at a stroke. Not only that, but Vincent had taken on a high profile and potentially lucrative murder case. It'll be a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight - and if Mickey can win against the odds, he'd really be back in the big leagues. The only problem is the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him. Read by Peter Giles (p) 2008 Hachette Audio

The Brass Verdict

A brilliant, high-tension thriller set in the glittery, surreal worlds of Las Vegas casinos, from the bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER. A young woman finds herself caught up in a heist which may cost her the one thing she values more than her life... Ex-con Cassie Black planned to see out her parole quietly - but things rarely go to plan. She was lured back to the criminal profession she gave up - as professional thief in Vegas casinos, robbing gamblers of their winnings - by a proposition that is just too good to miss. The job goes as planned, except that the target has too much money. It can only mean someone very powerful is going to be very angry indeed. Cassie finds herself on the run from a killer who seems to know her every move in advance. Worse still, he is closing in on the one thing Cassie will do anything to protect.

Void Moon

Is it the end of the line for Harry Bosch? When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell, the case should be watertight. Pell's DNA was found on the victim - but he was only eight years old at the time. This is not the only mystery Harry Bosch has to solve. A man jumped - or was pushed - from a window. The victim's father is Councilman Irving, who's been intent on destroying Harry's career for years. Now Irving wants Harry to head up the investigation. Harry uncovers traces of two of the city's deepest secrets: a killer operating for as many as three decades without being detected, and a conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department . . . Read by Len Cariou (p) 2011 Hachette Audio

The Drop

In the title story, a fatal accident on Mulholland Drive turns out to be part of an ingenious plot - but is it too ingenious? In Two Bagger, a dedicated cop working for the Gang Intelligence Unit finally gets the payoff he's worked so hard for - but it's not what he's expecting. In Cahoots, a team of scam artists meet for a high-stakes poker game but who is scamming who? Read by David W. Collins. David W. Collins began building his voice-over career almost 10 years ago, performing in numerous radio spots, video games, national TV commercials and phone systems. Before relocating to Los Angeles earlier this year, David was seen in a theatrical run at Berkeley Repertory Theater, and performed the National Anthem as a soloist at various sporting events around the San Francisco Bay Area. (p) 2012 Hachette Audio

Harry Bosch

Mulholland Dive

Death is my beat.' Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of THE POET, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist: 'On the day I arrived in Los Angeles I sat in the newspaper editor's office being interviewed for a job on the crime beat. The day before there had been a bank heist in which the thieves had gone into the city's labyrinthine storm water tunnel system to get beneath the bank before tunnelling upward.' Years later that story would become THE BLACK ECHO. 'Moments. They kept coming. One morning an editor called me and told me to swing by a murder scene on my way to the office. Just like that, like I was picking up a coffee on the way to work. The murder was on Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills. I went as instructed and got the story. I also got the place where I would put the home of the fictional detective [Harry Bosch] I had secretly begun writing about ...' The cops, the killers, the cases - it's all here in a collection that will a MUST for Connelly fans. Read by Howard Samuel (p) 2006 Books on Tape

Crime Beat

When the department's sorter takes a call from an anonymous witness to a cold case murder, she takes it straight to Harry Bosch who finds the accused in San Quentin. He's locked away for a different murder but only a few months away from a parole hearing which is likely to see him walking free. New methods find DNA on the murder weapon but having sat in an archive for 20 years, it's not strong enough to take to court. To keep him behind bars, Bosch has no choice but to find the witness who doesn't want to be found. Read by Len Cariou (p) 2014 Hachette Audio

Switchblade

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 it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce's skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly's last days with some precision. But every step into Lilly's past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy - and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear. Read by Jonathan Davis (p) 2002 Hachette Audio

Chasing The Dime

Harry Bosch arbejder i LAPD's elitenenhed, den særlige afdeling, der tager sig af de mest indviklede og prekære sager. Et tilsyneladende banalt røveri udvikler sig til drab på en kinesisk butiksejer i South L.A., men da Bosch efterforsker sagen med bistand fra den politiets asiatiske enhed, viser mordet sig at have forbindelse til den magtfulde og meget brutale Hong Kong-triade Fjorten K. Bosch modtager truende opkald om at droppe sagen, efterhånden som han nærmer sig opklaringen. Dem ignorerer han naturligvis – indtil han modtager et videoklip af sin datter Madeline. Den grufulde sandhed rammer ham som et kølleslag: Pigen er blevet kidnappet af klodens mest brutale gangsterorganisation, og Bosch står helt selvforskyldt alene mod overmagten – eller gør han?

Bosch

Ni drager

Bosch arbejder med en tyve år gammel sag om en dansk kvinde, som han selv fandt dræbt i forbindelse med de voldsomme optøjer, der brød løs i gaderne i L.A. efter offentliggørelsen af politiets brutale gennembankning af en sort mand, Rodney King. Der er fundet et enkelt patronhylster, men det er affyret fra en revolver, en gammel Beretta, der viser sig at have sin helt egen mystiske historie. 'Snehvide' er Michael Connellys 16. bog om LAPD-strømeren Harry (Hieronymus) Bosch. Bosch er aktuel i tv-serien af samme navn, som vises på HBO.

Snehvide

Harry Bosch arbejder med uafsluttede og kolde sager. En berømt mexikansk mariachi-musiker Orlando Merced blev tilfældigt skudt ned på en åben plads midt i Los Angelses for længe siden. Han blev lammet fra livet og ned og dør nu ti år efter af sine skader. Under obduktionen dukker kuglen i rygsøjlen op. Harry Bosch og hans nye, unge partner Lucia Soto opdager, at kuglen stammer fra en langtgående jagtriffel, og at musikeren altså ikke er blevet skudt under et bandeopgør, som man har henlagt sagen under. Derimod ligner det et planlagt mord. Snart peger sagen op ad mod toppen i samfundet … Lucia Soto – med en strålende karriere foran sig og belønnet med korpsets tapperhedsmedalje – opfører sig meget mærkværdigt, føler Bosch. Snart opdager han, at hun er i gang med sin helt egen undersøgelse af en mordbrand, som hun selv overlevede … “I mine øjne er Harry Bosch den ultimative hovedperson inden for kriminallitteraturen.” Sara Blædel

Mordbrand

Harry Bosch arbejder gratis for San Fernando-politiet med uopklarede sager og bliver kaldt ud til et lokalt apotek, hvor en ung medarbejder er myrdet. Og bag sagen begynder en million-svindel med falske recepter at tårne sig op mens bringer folkene fra hans gamle arbejdsplads LAPD dårligt nyt. Ni dage senere bliver en morder, Bosch har fældet for 30 år siden, lukket ud af dødgangen som en fri mand, nye dna-spor har frikendt ham. Og så må Bosch kæmpe for at rense sit rygte og grave den gamle sag igennem igen. De to sager, der ikke har med hinanden at gøre, vrider sig rundt om Bosch som pigtråd, og han forstår, at der er to slags sandhed. Den, der gør dig fri, og den, der begraver dig i mørke.

To slags sandhed

Michael Connelly er især berømt for sine serier om henholdsvis Bosch og advokaten Mickey Haller. Historien om Haller er filmatiseret i 2010 og i 2020 udkommer en serie bygget over karakteren. I 2020 udkommer også sidste sæson i HBO-serien Bosch. Journalisten Jack McEvoy er gammel i gårde, og han har før opsnuset historier om seriemordere. Da en kvinde, som Jack kortvarigt stod i forhold til, bliver myrdet på bestialsk vis, indser Jack, at der er tale om et særligt forbrydersind, der ikke ligner noget, han før er stødt på. Jack trodser alle formaninger og giver sig til at efterforske sagen … og overraskelserne står i kø. Måske skulle han alligevel have lyttet til den sidste advarsel.Jan McEvoy optræder også i ‘De Parallelle Mord’ (1998) og ‘Fugleskræmslet (2011).Historien er ren fiktion, men den engelske titel refererer til en hjemmeside, www.fairwarning.org, som er et nyhedssite, hvor Michael Connelly sidder i bestyrelsen. Mens man venter på den danske udgave af bogen, kan man jo lytte til Connellys true crime-podcast: Murder Book. “Højt tempo, voldsomt og med spænding nok til et hjerteanfald, det er en af verdens bedste kriminalforfatter i topform.! Waterstones“Mere litterær kaviar fra Connelly.” Financial Times

McEvoy-Walling

Første advarsel

Jack McEvoy er en hot shot kriminalreporter ved Los Angeles Times, men tiderne er dårlige, og McEvoy bliver til sin store overraskelse fyret i en af bladets mange sparerunder. Han beslutter at gå ud med et brag og levere sit livs bedste krimireportage som den sidste.

Fugleskræmslet

En hund finder en knogle i Laurel Canyon uden for Hollywood, en banal hverdagshændelse, der viser sig at blive indledningen til en af de mest hudløse og besættende sager, Harry Bosch nogensinde har arbejdet med. Knoglen stammer fra en dreng, der blev myrdet for mere end tyve år siden, men fundet af hans grav og undersøgelsen af skeletresterne afslører, at drengen har været udsat for grov og langvarig mishandling. Sagen er kold forlængst, men den puster til Boschs erindringer om at vokse op som forældreløs i Los Angeles, og mens han forfølger de kolde spor, tager sagen pludselig en uventet drejning, der får hele Los Angeles på den anden ende. Michael Connelly tilhører den absolutte elite af amerikanske krimiforfattere. Han startede sin forfattervirksomhed som kriminalreporter på Los Angeles Times, og hans første roman om Harry Bosch, Det sorte ekko, der udkom på dansk i 1997, modtog i 1992 verdens fineste krimi-pris, Edgar Award. På dansk er indtil videre udkommet seks romaner om Harry Bosch, den seneste Mørkere end natten i 2003, og to fritstående romaner, De parallelle mord, 1998 og Blodspor, 1999. Michael Connellys bøger har vundet et hav af priser verden over og SKELETTERNES BY blev af New York Times nomineret til Best Book Of The Year. Flere titler både fritstående og i Harry Bosch-serien er på vej.

Skeletternes by

Renée Ballard har rodet sig ud i en hel del besvær. Hun er blevet forflyttet til natholdet, fordi hun har klaget over sexchikane og over, at hendes partner har svigtet hende. Hendes nye partner vil helst være hjemme hos familien, hvad der gør Ballard til en natlig, lone wolf. Hun er vokset op på Maui som datter af en kvinde fra Hawaii, som ikke vil have noget med hende at gøre, og en surfer-far, der druknede. Når hun ikke er på vandet, er hun overalt i Los Angeles, utrætteligt i krig mod pushere, voldtægtsmænd og mordere. En transsexuel kvinde bliver pryglet næsten til døde i en anden sag bliver fem mennesker mejet ned i natklubben The Dancers. Ballard er et friskt, nyt bekendtskab fra Connelly. Hun er stærk, uafhængig og fuld af fejl som sin forgænger Harry Bosch. Første bind i serien om Renée Ballard.

Ballard

Nathold

"LAPD er en paramilitær organisation," svarede Bosch. "Det vil sige, at når en person højere oppe i hierakiet giver én besked på at gøre noget, så gør man det. Den nye sag her er kommet helt oppe fra politidirektøren, og vi parerer ordre." "Det lyder som en politisk rævekage." "High jingo." Hvad ...?" "Sammenblandingen af politi og politik." Harry Bosch har tre år tilbage i LAPD, inden han efter reglerne skal gå påå̊ pension. Han arbejder hektisk for at nå sine sager, og en morgen få̊r han tildelt to. Den ene involverer nye dna-spor i en voldtægtssag fra 1989. De peger på en mand, der efter de nye data skulle have begå̊et fuldbyrdet voldtægt som otteårig. Den anden sag handler om Harrys ærkefjende, den højtstå̊ende LA-politiker Irvin Irving. Irvings søn er død, enten ved et uheld, eller også er han blevet hjulpet på vej. Mens Bosch kæmper med begge sager opdager han to ting: en morder har uforstyrret kunnet husere i byen i mere end tre å̊rtier, og en politisk studehandel trækker trå̊de langt tilbage i LAPD’s historie og helt ind i korpsets ledelse. Begge dele få̊r den hå̊rdkogte politimand til at ryste i sin grundvold.

Magtspillerne

Harry Bosch har trukket sig tilbage efter 30 år i LAPD og begyndt som privatdetektiv. En døende og meget rig mand vil have ham til at finde ud af, om han for mange år siden fik et barn med en mexikansk pige … Så stor en arv kan blive farlig både for arvingen og ham selv under eftersøgningen. Bosch arbejder også gratis for sin gamle politiafdeling og er snart på sporet af en grusom serievoldtægtsmand. “Michael Connellys seneste er et nyt mesterstykke af en krimi. For nogle forfattere gælder det, at man ikke længere kan hitte på superlativer. Mr. Connelly har nået det punkt for længe siden.” -writtenbysime.com

Bag slørene

Ballard og Bosch er tilbage! Der er gået et år, siden Renée Ballard skred fra politiet med al dets hadske bureaukrati. Politichefen lover hende frit valg mellem stillinger, hvis bare hun vil vende tilbage, og hun beslutter, at hun vil genoprette afdelingen for kolde sager under enheden for røveri og drab. Bosch har arbejdet på en gammel sag, der hjemsøger ham, i årevis. En psykopatisk morder, som dræbte en hel familie, er på fri fod, og den tanke ødelægger Bosch’ nattesøvn. Det er hans hvide hval. Ballard tilbyder Bosch en plads i sin nye afdeling som frivillig efterforsker, hvor han blandt andet kan arbejde med sin hvide hval. Men de må lægge gammelt nag bag sig for at få ram på en rå og ubarmhjertig morder. “Ustoppelig fremdrift, denne her nye roman demonstrerer endnu engang, hvorfor Connelly er the real deal!” Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Af samme forfatter i Ballard & Bosch-serien: Det tolvte offer (Bosch) Det sorte ekko (Bosch) Den sidste prærieulv (Bosch) Mafiaspil (Bosch) Engleruten (Bosch) Mørkere end natten (Bosch) Skeletternes by (Bosch) Nattens konger (Bosch) Malstrøm (Bosch) Det sidste ord (Bosch) Echo Park (Bosch) Ni drager (Bosch) Magtspillerne (Bosch) Snehvide (Bosch) Mordbrand (Bosch) Bag slørene (Bosch) Nathold (Ballard) To slags sandhed (Bosch) Mørkets ridder (Ballard & Bosch) Brande i natten (Ballard & Bosch) Mørke timer (Ballard & Bosch)

Ballard-Bosch

Ørkenstjernen

Terry McCaleb, der engang før sin store hjerteoperation var profilekspert for FBI, lever nu et tilbagetrukket liv på Catalina Island med kone og barn. Men da han bliver kontaktet af sin tidligere kollega i forbindelse med en sag, som hun er kørt fast i, vågner hans gamle instinkt. Det, han står med, er et bestialsk mord, begået af en person med en ganske særlig sans for bizar, rituel iscenesættelse. McCalebs efterforskning fører ham til hans store forbløffelse direkte til Harry Bosch, der på sin side er optaget af en kendt Hollywoodinstruktørs mordsag. De to sager viser sig at overlappe hinanden, og det går hurtigt op for McCaleb, at han er på vej til at afsløre den mest skræmmende morder, han nogensinde har mødt.

Mørkere end natten

I 1993 forsvandt den unge kvinde Marie Gesto sporløst. Harry Bosch og hans partner fandt aldrig andet end hendes efterladte tøj - pænt foldet sammen på bagsædet af en bil. Det uopklarede mord har lige siden naget Bosch, og han har i årevis haft sagsakterne fremme med jævne mellemrum, ikke mindst efter at han er blevet tilknyttet LAPDs afdeling for uopklarede sager. Men han har aldrig kunnet knække sagen og fange morderen. 10. bog i serien om Bosch

Mickey Haller har fejret en sejr i retssalen og er på vej hjem, da han bliver vinket ind til siden af en betjent. I bagagerummet på hans store Lincoln finder betjenten et dryppende lig. Det virker, som om nogen er ude på at få ram på Haller, og da han bliver tiltalt for mord, må han forsvare sig selv. Men mod hvem? Komplottet vokser for hvert øjeblik i dette hæsblæsende retssalsdrama. For hvert menneske, som findes ikke skyldig i en kriminel handling, må der findes et andet menneske et sted derude, der er skyldig i netop den handling. Og for at bevise absolut uskyld må den skyldige først findes og afsløres for loven. Det er uskyldens lov. Det er intet mindre end utroligt, at Michael Connelly kan blive ved. I løbet af sin livslange karriere har han konstant forfinet sit forfatterskab og udvidet sin enorme viden om det amerikanske retsvæsen. Connelly er uddannet journalist, og i dag producerer og skriver han selv, når hans krimier bliver omsat til tv-serier som HBO’s ‘Bosch’ og Netflix’ ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’. Michael Connellys kriminalromaner har altid ligget i toppen af bestseller-listerne, og de har indbragt ham adskillige priser, deriblandt Edgar, Anthony, Macavity Awards og RBD International Prize for Crime Writing og Palle Rosenkrantz-Prisen. Michael Connelly er kendt verden over for sine krimier om Los Angeles-politimanden Harry Bosch og ikke mindst advokaten Mickey Haller, som også løber på Bosch i ny og næ. "Suveræn og sentimental retssalskrimi ... Kærlig og kærkommen familiefar 'Uskyldens lov' er af den sædvanlige litterære standard, plotmæssige kvalitet og socialkritiske intention, som du finder som vandmærke i alle Connellys værker." ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Bo Tao Michaëlis, Politiken "... Michael Connelly kan virkelig skrive et dialogbaseret retssalsdrama, der får én til at klappe relativt meget i hænderne. Især fordi Haller nærmest hele tiden synes ikke blot at være et skridt foran anklagemyndigheden, men også læseren, hvilket i sagens natur afføder flere underholdende overraskelser undervejs fra start til slut." Jakob Genz, Berlingske

Haller

Uskyldens lov

Forsvarsadvokaten Mike Haller har kontor på bagsædet af en Lincoln Town Car, der med den tidligere klient Earl Briggs bag rattet, fragter ham rundt i fast rutefart mellem retssalene i Los Angeles. Briggs afdrager på en gæld til Haller for at have skaffet ham en prøveløsladelse, og han er som de fleste af hans klienter både uglamourøs og dårligt betalende. Men en dag dukker der en helt ny type klient op, en velhavende Beverly Hills-playboy, der er tiltalt for mord. Han tilbyder Haller et honorar, det er umuligt at sige nej til, og sagen ligner enhver forsvarsadvokats drøm, efterhånden som der kommer nye beviser på mandens uskyld frem, og en frifindelse ligger lige for. Men da en person tæt på Haller bliver brutalt myrdet, må han bruge al sin kynisk erhvervede indsigt i systemets mange smuthuller til at redde sit eget skind. Michael Connelly har ud over sin serie om LAPD-detektiven Harry Bosch skrevet en række fritstående kriminalromaner, hvoraf flere er blevet filmatiseret. Denne roman er en af dem, og her introduceres vi for endnu en uforglemmelig Connelly-figur, 'Limousineadvokaten' Mike Haller. Romanen er filmatiseret af Brad Furman med bl.a. William H. Macy og Marisa Tomei på rollelisten, og titelrollen som The Lincoln Lawyer spilles af Matthew McConaughey.

Limousineadvokaten

Limousineadvokaten Haller står over for uventet gevinst, da en bekendt dør og efterlader ham mange lukrative sager. Men sagen efterforskes af LAPD-detektiven Bosch, som gerne bruger Haller som madding for at lokke morderen frem. Det viser sig efterhånden, at den kyniske advokat og hårdkogte detektiv dog har mere til fælles end man skulle tro.

Den enes død

Cassie Black har forladt sin kriminelle løbebane efter et katastrofalt casinotyveri, hvor hendes livs kærlighed omkom, og hun selv fik en fængselsdom. Nu lever hun af at sælge Porsher til jetsettet i Hollywood. Selv i sine mørkeste stunder har hun været i stand til at holde sig oppe ved tanken om det smukkeste, der er sket hende, som samtidig er hendes livs dybeste hemmelighed. Af angst for at miste det tvinges hun tilbage til sine gamle græsgange i Las Vegas, hvor hun med det helt store kup måske kan lave så mange penge, at ingen nogensinde kan tage noget fra hende igen. »Cassie Black er en goodlooking 30-årig blondine, som sælger tyske Porsche-biler i L.A, og samtidig hovedperson i sommerens bedste krimi, amerikaneren Michael Connellys Vildfaren måne. - Bo Tao Michaëlis, Politiken

Black

Vildfaren måne

Det er en hård tid for limousineadvokaten Mickey Haller, der har udvidet forretningen til at omfatte tvangsauktioner, men en af hans klienter anklages for at have myrdet den bankrådgiver, som er ansvarlig for at tage hendes hjem. Haller og hans hold forsøger at få Lisa Trammel frikendt, selvom beviserne peger på, at hun er skyldig, men det viser sig hurtigt, at offeret selv gjorde forretninger på det sorte marked. Som om det ikke var nok, bliver Haller overfaldet … I det mindste er han sikker på, han er på rette spor.

Det femte vidne

Bosch og Ballard er tilbage! Det er nytårsaften, da en grundig og metodisk morder slår til i L.A. Renée Ballard arbejder som sædvanligt på natholdet, og hun forbinder hurtigt mordet til en gammel sag, som Harry Bosch arbejdede på i sin tid. Samtidig er Ballard på sporet efter to voldtægtsmænd, som terroriserer kvinder – tilsyneladende uden at efterlade sig det mindste spor. Det er en konstant kamp mod vindmøller, når Ballard bekæmper kriminalitet i en verden, hvor social uro og corona-epedimien lægger hindringer i vejen for hvert skridt hun tager, og hendes demoraliserede kollegaer er mildest talt ingen hjælp. Heldigvis kan hun regne Bosch. “Det her er et mesterværk” Publishers Weekly “Den fjerde Renée Ballard og Harry Bosch-roman er den bedste til dato.” Booklist

Ballard & Bosch

Mørke timer

Forsvarsadvokat Mickey Haller er tilbage og tager sager, hvor chancerne for at vinde er én ud af en million. Han indvilliger i at repræsentere en kvinde, som er dømt for at have dræbt sin mand, en sherifs assistent. På trods af sin dom fire år tidligere, fastholder hun sin uskyld. ​Haller hyrer sin halvbror, den pensionerede LAPD-detektiv Harry Bosch, til at efterforske sagen. ​ Under gennemgangen opdager Bosch noget, der ikke stemmer, og en sherifs afdeling har til hensigt at bringe en hurtig søgen efter retfærdighed i drabet på en af ​​sine egne.

Vejen til opstandelse

Dengang Bosch var helt grøn bag ørerne i drabsafdelingen, var John hans mentor. Nu ligger John i graven, men han efterlader sig en mordefterforskning, som plagede ham til det sidste. Harry Bosch og Renée Ballard slår pjalterne sammen for at opklare den tyve år gamle sag, og det umage makkerpar opererer i Los Angeles’ kriminelle natteliv som lys i det meget tætte mørke. Spørgsmålet er, om John virkelig forsøgte at bringe sagen for dagens lys, eller om han havde grund til at skjule den i mørket. Når lyset bliver ild, kan det brænde alt for stærkt. “Connelly er uden lige, når det handler om politiromaner, og endnu engang beviser han, at han er formens moderne mester.” Publishers Weekly

Brande i natten

René Ballard arbejder på natholdet igen. Og ud på de sene nattetimer vender hun tilbage til Hollywood Station og finder en fremmed igang med at gennemgå kabinettet med gamle sager. Hun smider indtrængeren, den pensionerede LA-politimand og nuværende privatdetektiv Harry Bosch ud, men tjekker alligevel den sag, han er blevet optaget af. Hun fortryder sin optræden og kontakter Bosch igen, for at de sammen kan forsøge at finde ud af, hvad der skete dengang. Daisy Clayton var løbet hjemmefra som femtenårig, havde taget stoffer og prostitueret sig, inden hun blev brutalt myrdet i Hollywood, og hendes krop efterladt i en skraldecontainer. Kroppen var skrubbet ren og renset med klorin, ingen spor at finde. Morderen blev ikke fundet, sagen blev ikke opklaret, men henlagt indtil nu. Michael Connellys kendteste bøger er dem om Harry Bosch, LAPD-kriminalbetjenten gennem 30 år, som senest er begyndt som privatdetektiv og arbejder lidt for San Fernandos politi ved siden af. (T’o slags sandhed’, 2018). Så begyndte han forfra med en ny serie, allerede New York Times-bestseller, ‘Nathold’, med en kvindelig strømer, som kun har arbejdet 14 år i politiet, kriminalassistent Renée Ballard. Her er så nummer to: ‘Dark sacred night’

Mørkets ridder

Een verbluffende thriller van bestsellerauteur Michael Connelly, met een overdonderend einde dat alle fans van hoofdpersoon Harry Bosch geschokt en ademloos zal achterlaten. Als in Hollywood Hills de beenderen van een 12-jarige jongen worden gevonden, raakt Harry Bosch betrokken bij een onderzoek dat de ergste beelden uit zijn verleden naar boven brengt. De botten hebben jarenlang onder de grond gelegen. Bosch stort zich in het onderzoek en brengt geleidelijk aan steeds meer feiten aan het licht. Zo komt hij uiteindelijk achter de identiteit van het kind. Wanneer blijkt dat de jongen tijdens zijn korte leven ernstig mishandeld werd, besluit hij dat degene die dit op zijn geweten heeft, zijn straf niet mag ontlopen. De pers over Michael Connelly ‘Een van de allergrootste nog levende misdaadschrijvers.’ Hebban.nl ‘Bijna griezelig hoe Connelly altijd weer de juiste toon weet te treffen.’ Vrij Nederland ‘Connelly is de onbetwiste meester van de politieroman.’ The Irish Times

Stad van beenderen

FBI-agent Terry McCaleb is op zoek naar de moordenaar van een jonge vrouw. Was haar dood wel zo willekeurig? Voormalig agent Terry McCaleb werkte voor de FBI als profiler: hij maakte pro_fielschetsen van daders gebaseerd op de kenmerken van een misdaad. Wegens hartfalen moest hij zijn carrière echter vroegtijdig beëindigen, maar dankzij een nieuw hart ziet hij de toekomst met vertrouwen tegemoet en bereidt hij zich voor op een rustiger leven na een turbulente professionele loopbaan. Totdat hij hoort dat de jonge vrouw van wie hij zijn donorhart heeft gekregen, koelbloedig is vermoord. De politie heeft geen verdachte op het oog en elk spoor loopt dood. Tegen beter weten in laat McCaleb zich door de zus van de dode vrouw overhalen de moord te onderzoeken. Zijn zoektocht brengt hem op het spoor van een moordenaar wiens moordzucht geen grenzen kent.

Bloedbeeld

Harry Bosch staat als hoofdverdachte in het beklaagdenbankje van de rechtszaal. Hij wordt aangeklaagd door de weduwe van de Poppenmaker, een gevreesde seriemoordenaar die vier jaar geleden tijdens zijn arrestatie door Bosch werd doodgeschoten. Volgens haar heeft Bosch niet de seriemoordenaar neergeschoten, maar een onschuldige man. Dit lijkt aannemelijk aangezien recent het lijk van een platinablond pornosterretje is gevonden, in beton gegoten, het handelsmerk van de Poppenmaker. Terwijl overdag de spanning in de rechtszaal om te snijden is, schuimt Bosch ’s nachts de onverlichte straten van Hollywood af om zijn gelijk te bewijzen…

Betonblond

Harry Bosch gaat op zoek naar de dader van een onopgeloste moord van dertig jaar geleden – die op zijn eigen moeder. Het leven van rechercheur Harry Bosch is een puinhoop. Zijn vriendin is bij hem weg, hij drinkt weer en zijn nieuwe, na een aardbeving onbewoonbaar verklaarde huis staat letterlijk op instorten. En dan verbiedt zijn baas hem ook nog op het bureau te komen. Harry besluit de moord op zijn moeder, die al sinds zijn twaalfde jaar onopgelost is, te onderzoeken. Destijds werd niemand zelfs maar in staat van beschuldiging gesteld. Zijn moeder was prostituee en er was overduidelijk met dossiers geknoeid. Harry moet zijn schaamte overwinnen en ontdekt dat iemand bepaalde kroongetuigen buiten beeld heeft gehouden. Een spoor dat dertig jaar geleden aan de zelfkant van het leven begon, leidt Harry naar een wel zeer welvarend deel van de stad. Maar hoe dichter hij zijn doel nadert, hoe beklemmender en gevaarlijker het wordt.

De laatste coyote

Kofferdood speelt zich af in de donkere kant van Los Angeles, het werkterrein van Harry Bosch, de illustere rechercheur Moordzaken. De eerste zaak waar Bosch na zijn onvrijwillige verlof mee te maken krijgt, is meteen al heavy te noemen: een filmproducent uit Hollywood wordt vermoord aangetroffen in de kofferbak van zijn Rolls Royce. Typisch een maffiagewoonte... Terwijl Harry Bosch steeds dieper in het onderzoek zit, wordt hij opeens van hogerhand van deze zaak gehaald. Weten ze dan niet dat hij zich door niets en niemand de wet laat voorschrijven? Dat alleen een kogel hem kan stoppen? En zelfs dat laatste is niet eens zo zeker... De pers over Michael Connelly ‘Een van de allergrootste nog levende misdaadschrijvers.’ Hebban.nl ‘Bijna griezelig hoe Connelly altijd weer de juiste toon weet te treffen.’ Vrij Nederland ‘Connelly is de onbetwiste meester van de politieroman.’ The Irish Times

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