Michael Connelly is an American author of crime novels featuring several recurring characters. The first one is Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch, an LAPD detective named after the Dutch painter, but I don’t really know why apart from the fact that Bosch the painter loved painting religious scenes with weird representations of sins. Another character is Mickey Haller, a criminal defence attorney that is also the paternal half-brother of Bosch. Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller, along with other characters, are either the sole hero of the novel or meet throughout the story. There are too many books to read, but I will see where I get because reading these crimes is always a pleasure.
Books read
The Poet (1996)
The Fifth Witness (2011)
The Drop (2011)
The Burning Room (2014)
The Crossing (2015)
The Wrong Side Of Goodbye (2016)
The Late Show (2017)
Short stories read
Two-Bagger (2001)
Cahoots (2002)
After Midnight (2003)
Christmas Even (2004)
Cielo Azul (2005)
The Safe Man (2005)
Angle of Investigation (2005)
Mulholland Dive (2007)
Suicide Run (2007)
One Dollar Jackpot (2007)
Father’s Day (2008)
Short Cut (2009)
Mount Olympus (2008)
Blue on Black (2010)
The Perfect Triangle (2010)
Blood Washes Off (2011)
A Fine Mist of Blood (2012)
Switchblade (2014)
Red Eye (2014)
The Crooked Man (2014)
Burnt Matches (2016)
Nighthawks (2016)
The Third Panel (2017)
The Guardian (2020)
Avalon (2021)
Books to read
The Black Echo (1992)
The Black Ice (1993)
The Concrete Blonde (1994)
The Last Coyote (1995)
Trunk Music (1997)
Blood Work (1998)
Angels Flight (1999)
Void Moon (2000)
A Darkness More Than Night (2001)
City Of Bones (2002)
Chasing The Dime (2002)
Lost Light (2003)
The Narrows (2004)
The Closers (2005)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)
Echo Park (2006)
The Overlook (2007)
The Brass Verdict (2008)
The Scarecrow (2009)
Nine Dragons (2009)
The Reversal (2010)
The Black Box (2012)
The Gods of Guilt (2013)
Two Kinds Of Truth (2017)
Dark Sacred Night (2018)
The Night Fire (2019)
Fair Warning (2020)
The Law Of Innocence (2020)
The Dark Hours (2021)
Desert Star (2022)
Resurrection Walk (2023)
Short stories to read
Homicide Special (2011) written exclusively for copies of “The Drop” sold in Waterstones stores (impossible to find)