THE LAST COYOTE Suspended from the LAPD pending psychiatric treatment Bosch has time on his hands and opens the ancient file on his mother's death. He discovers that the flames of old passion don't die - they kindle fresh fires. 'Joins the top rank of a new generation of crime writers' Los Angeles Times TRUNK MUSIC Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence Bosch's first case is the homicide of a Hollywood producer found in the trunk of a Rolls Royce, bound and shot in the head. Was it the Mafia? Or the IRS? And why is the LAPD so uninterested in the case? 'The strongest crime series being written in America now' Spectator ANGELS FLIGHT When the body of high-profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found on Angels Flight, a funicular in downtown LA, there's not a detective in town who wants the case as Elias specialised in lawsuits alleging police brutality and every LAPD cop is a suspect. And so Harry Bosch gets the case. 'Unputdownable is a word I rarely use, but I have to apply it to this riveting book' Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph
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.
