26 Best Michael Connelly Books

Harry Bosch investigates the death of a fellow Vietnam tunnel rat whose body is dumped in a drainpipe, uncovering a link to a daring tunnel robbery and a dangerous alliance with an FBI agent who may not tell him everything.

Crime reporter Jack McEvoy refuses to believe his detective twin brother died by suicide and uncovers a pattern of dead cops linked by eerie Poe quotations, drawing him into an FBI hunt for a serial killer known only as the Poet.

Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller runs his practice from the back seat of his Lincoln, and thinks he has landed an easy payday defending a wealthy realtor accused of assault, until the case exposes a predator connected to an earlier wrongful conviction.

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is still recovering from a heart transplant when he learns his new heart came from a murdered woman, and his search for her killer suggests a calculated series of crimes staged to look like random robberies.

While being sued for killing an alleged serial murderer, Harry Bosch watches a new victim turn up in the Dollmaker’s signature style, forcing him to question his own casework and hunt a killer who may have been hiding in plain sight.

Newly retired from the LAPD, Bosch reluctantly agrees to help his half brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, investigate a client who swears he was framed for murder, sending Bosch across the aisle to probe corrupt cops and planted evidence.

Banished to Hollywood’s overnight shift after filing a complaint against a superior, detective Renée Ballard works multiple cases in one sleepless stretch, then quietly keeps investigating a brutal assault and a homeless woman’s killing long after other cops move on.

Facing a layoff from the Los Angeles Times, McEvoy decides to go out with one last big story and reexamines a teen’s murder confession, only to stumble onto a technologically savvy killer who uses a data center job to stalk and trap his victims.

A man is found executed in the trunk of his Rolls Royce near the Hollywood Bowl, sending Bosch from Los Angeles to Las Vegas as he unpicks a money trail involving the mob, corrupt cops, and a former lover he never quite forgot.

When civil rights lawyer Howard Elias is gunned down on the Angels Flight funicular, almost every cop in Los Angeles is a potential suspect, and Bosch is ordered to solve the case before the city’s fraught racial tensions explode again.

A narcotics officer is found dead in a motel room beside a note and rumors of a new drug called Black Ice, and Bosch ignores orders to follow the trail into Mexican border towns, dirty cops, and cartel violence.

After a colleague is murdered, Haller inherits a high profile double murder trial involving a Hollywood mogul, only to discover the killer may be targeting him next, so he teams up uneasily with Harry Bosch to survive and find the truth.

Suspended and sent to therapy after lashing out at a superior, Bosch turns his attention to the unsolved murder of his mother, digging into old files, Hollywood power brokers, and a long buried cover up that has shaped his entire life.

Given only a few years before forced retirement, Bosch juggles a cold case revived by a troubling DNA hit and the suspicious fall of a councilman’s son from a hotel balcony, exposing both a long running predator and ugly city politics.

After his old mentor dies, Bosch inherits a stolen murder book about a young man shot in an alley and asks Ballard to help him see what was missed, even as both detectives juggle an arson death and the killing of a prominent judge.

Splitting his time between volunteer work for a small police department and private investigations, Bosch is hired by a dying billionaire to find a possible heir while also tracking a serial rapist, two cases that test his sense of legacy and justice.

Volunteering with a small city’s cold case unit, Bosch looks into the murder of a pharmacist caught in a prescription drug scheme even as a long imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, forcing Bosch to defend both his reputation and his past cases.

Ex con Cassie Black has built a quiet life selling luxury cars, but when the secret she lives for is threatened, she returns to high stakes casino heists in Las Vegas and collides with a lethal fixer who once destroyed everything she loved.

Nanotech entrepreneur Henry Pierce keeps getting calls meant for a woman named Lilly, an escort who has vanished, and his attempt to trace her pulls him into a world of online sex, violence, and corporate sabotage that could ruin his work and his life.

A dog uncovers a human bone in Laurel Canyon, leading Bosch to a shallow grave and the decades old murder of a boy, a case that forces him to confront institutional indifference and speak for a victim who never had a voice.

Working the graveyard shift, Ballard catches Bosch rifling through case files about Daisy Clayton, a murdered runaway, and ends up partnering with the retired detective to chase the long cold killer while still handling whatever the night throws at her.

After freeing a wrongfully convicted man, Mickey Haller starts sifting through letters from prisoners claiming innocence and asks Bosch to help, and together they focus on a woman imprisoned for killing her deputy ex husband in a case that never quite added up.

In the middle of the foreclosure crisis, Haller defends Lisa Trammel, an angry homeowner turned protester accused of killing a bank executive, and must pick apart organized crime ties, financial fraud, and his own client’s lies in front of a skeptical jury.

Bosch agrees to look into the death of his old colleague Terry McCaleb and soon collides with FBI agent Rachel Walling and the return of the serial killer known as the Poet, drawing together dangerous threads from several earlier cases.

Mickey Haller takes a civil case against an artificial intelligence company after a chatbot allegedly encouraged a teenager to kill his former girlfriend. Representing her family, he faces a well-resourced opponent and difficult questions about responsibility.

Frustrated with defense work, Haller agrees to lead the prosecution in a retrial of Jason Jessup, a convicted child killer recently freed by new DNA evidence, and brings in Maggie McPherson and Harry Bosch as they battle a ruthless defendant on bail.