“CONNELLY IS RAISING THE HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE NOVEL TO A NEW LEVEL . . . adding substance and depth to modern crime fiction.”
–Boston Globe
“AN ELEGANT, INSIGHTFUL WRITER.”
–Newsweek
“MICHAEL CONNELLY IS IN THE ELITE HANDFUL OF CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS CREATING FIRST-RATE, HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE NOVELS.”
–Denver Post
“ONE OF AMERICA’S FINEST WRITERS. DON’T MISS HIM.”
–Cleveland Plain Dealer
“IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, THE NEW PASHA OF CONTEMPORARY CRIME FICTION IS MICHAEL CONNELLY. His books are the most classically constructed and the most gothic.”
–Esquire
“CONNELLY IS A MASTER AT CONVEYING THE ‘DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT’ THAT LIVES WITHIN HARRY BOSCH.”
–Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“AMONG THE MANY WRITERS WHO HAVE EMPLOYED THE CITY OF ANGELS AS THEIR BACKDROP, NONE HAS CAPTURED ITS CORRUPT YET COMPELLING AMBIENCE BETTER THAN MICHAEL CONNELLY . . . brings to life fallible human beings.”
–San Diego Union-Tribune
“CONNELLY IS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE NEW BREED OF THRILLER WRITERS.”
–San Francisco Examiner
“A FIRST RATE PURVEYOR OF CRIME. . . . Connelly has developed into a master of character studies.”
–Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
“CONNELLY ELEVATES THE POLICE PROCEDURAL to a higher standard and moves to the top of the class of contemporary crime writers.”
–Playboy
“NO ONE WRITING IN THE CRIME-FICTION FIELD TODAY KNOWS MORE ABOUT POLICE AND CRIMINALS THAN MICHAEL CONNELLY. . . .The most completely rendered vision of Los Angeles available in American fiction.”
–Southern Pines Pilot
(NC)
“COUNT ON CONNELLY TO SET THE STANDARD BY WHICH CRISP SUSPENSE PROSE IS MEASURED.”
