Book Preview It was supposed to rain for real and that would have put a damper on the annual rain of lead. But the forecast was wrong. The sky was blue-black and clear. And Renée Ballard braced for the onslaught, positioning herself on the north side of the division under the shelter of the Cahuenga … Read more
Book Preview Ellis and Long were four car lengths behind the motorcycle on Ventura Boulevard. They were eastbound, coming up to the big curve where the road would turn south and head down through the pass into Hollywood. Ellis was behind the wheel, where he preferred to be, even though he was the senior partner … Read more
Book Preview 1 It seemed to Bosch to be a form of torture heaped upon torture. Corazon was hunched over the steel table, her bloody and gloved hands deep inside the gutted torso, working with forceps and a long-bladed instrument she called the “butter knife.” Corazon was not tall and she stood on her tiptoes … Read more
Book Preview Cops lie. Lawyers lie. Witnesses lie. The victims lie. A trial is a contest of lies. And everybody in the courtroom knows this. The judge knows this. Even the jury knows this. They come into the building knowing they will be lied to. They take their seats in the box and agree to … Read more
Book Preview By the third night the death count was rising so high and so quickly that many of the divisional homicide teams were pulled off the front lines of riot control and put into emergency rotations in South Central. Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, were pulled from Hollywood Division and assigned … Read more
Book Preview The patrol officers had left the front door open. They thought they were doing her a favor, airing the place out. But that was a violation of crime scene protocol regarding evidence containment. Bugs could go in and out. Touch DNA could be disturbed by a breeze through the house. Odors were particulate. … Read more
Book Preview Ballard and Jenkins rolled up on the house on El Centro shortly before midnight. It was the first call of the shift. There was already a patrol cruiser at the curb out front and Ballard recognized the two blue suiters standing on the front porch of the bungalow with a gray-haired woman in … Read more
Book Preview A murder case is like a tree. A tall tree. An oak tree. It has been carefully planted and cared for by the state. Watered and trimmed when needed, examined for disease and parasites of any kind. Its root system is constantly monitored as it flourishes underground and clings tightly to the … Read more
Book Preview I approached the witness stand with a warm and welcoming smile. This, of course, belied my true intent, which was to destroy the woman who sat there with her eyes fixed on me. Claire Welton had just identified my client as the man who had forced her out of her Mercedes E60 at … Read more
Book Preview The Fifth Witness: A Novel Connelly, Michael Little, Brown and Company (2011) Tags: FIC031000 FIC031000ttt From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Connelly’s compelling fourth legal thriller featuring Mickey Haller (after Reversal) finds the maverick L.A. lawyer who uses his Lincoln town car as an office specializing in “foreclosure defense.” Haller’s first foreclosure client, Lisa … Read more
Book Preview A LSO BY M ICHAEL C ONNELLY Fiction The Black Echo The Black Ice The Concrete Blonde The Last Coyote The Poet Trunk Music Blood Work Angels Flight Void Moon A Darkness More than Night City of Bones Chasing the Dime Lost Light The Narrows The Closers The Lincoln Lawyer Echo Park The … Read more
Book Preview Synopsis: Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. … Read more
Book Preview Monday, March 7 ONE T he morning air off the Mojave in late winter is as clean and crisp as you’ll ever breathe in Los Angeles County. It carries the taste of promise on it. When it starts blowing in like that I like to keep a window open in my office. There … Read more
Book Preview Fair Warning – Jack McEvoy Series 03 (2020) Connelly, Michael The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar – … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY MICHAEL CONNELLY Fiction The Black Echo The Black Ice The Concrete Blonde The Last Coyote The Poet Trunk Music Blood Work Angels Flight Void Moon A Darkness More Than Night City of Bones Chasing the Dime Lost Light The Narrows The Closers The Lincoln Lawyer Echo Park The Overlook The Brass … Read more
Book Preview CRITICS SING THE PRAISES OF MICHAEL CONNELLY’S THE POET “CHILLING. . . . THE POET RINGS TRUE. A good reporter is like a pit bull, never giving up the chase. And Jack hangs on to the bitter end, even when he becomes a target.” —San Francisco Examiner “PULSE POUNDING. . . . Connelly is one of those masters of … Read more
Book Preview Bosch arrived late and had to park on a cemetery lane far from the grave site. Careful not to step on anybody’s grave, he limped through two memorial sections, his cane sinking into the soft ground, until he saw the gathering for John Jack Thompson. It was standing room only around the old … Read more
Book Preview 1 The patrol officers had left the front door open. They thought they were doing her a favor, airing the place out. But that was a violation of crime scene protocol regarding evidence containment. Bugs could go in and out. Touch DNA could be disturbed by a breeze through the house. Odors were … Read more