The Harry Bosch Mysteries [Import] [Hardcover]

Michael CONNELLY (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 768 pages
• Publisher: Orion (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752825534
• ISBN-13: 978-0752825533
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,022,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing ' a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.

After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of journalism, landing him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written.

After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. The novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles , was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed that up with 18 more novels. His books have been translated into 31 languages and have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards.

Michael lives with his family in Florida.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Early good ones!, June 11, 2010

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Pat in Northern Utah - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Harry Bosch Mysteries (Paperback)

Last year I very reluctantly wrote a rather negative review of Michael Connelly's 9 Dragons, which I don't think is even close to his earlier Harry Bosch books. If you want to read him at his best, read these (also Angel's Flight, another favorite), all of which I own in hardback. This is the real old-fashioned "hard boiled" detective stuff, set in Los Angeles, about a tough cop who rubs nearly everyone the wrong way but is one of the good guys. Connelly really "gets" LA and after reading him, the reader gets it, too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The First Bosch Books, June 19, 2007

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Steven Cowles (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Harry Bosch Mysteries (Paperback)

Great way to pick up the 1st 3 books in a single hardback. Connelly is one of the finest writers in the detective genre and Harry Bosch is a very enjoyable hero. I moved into this field after working thru most of the spy/action/tech/thriller series including Clancy, Brown, Brown, Bond, Coyle, Mills, Silva, Isles, Hagberg, LeCarre, Littel, Ludlum, Deighton, Griffen..... and I did so with a lot of trepidation as to whether they would really be the diverting all-nighters I had come to enjoy so much. What a pleasure to find Connelly and Harry Bosch! Enjoy!