Michael Connelly

A man arrested for a current murder offers a confession to a cold case as a bargaining chip — the 1993 disappearance of Marie Gesto, a case Harry Bosch has never stopped working. But as the confession is entered and the case is closed, Bosch's instincts tell him something is wrong.

A man shot ten years ago in a drive-by shooting finally dies of his wound — the bullet lodged too close to his spine to remove — making it a homicide a decade after the fact. Bosch and his new partner Lucia Soto must reconstruct a crime that the city has long since moved on from.

Harry Bosch comes out of retirement to join the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, working cold cases. His first assignment: the 1988 murder of sixteen-year-old Rebecca Verloren, whose case was buried in ways a DNA match on the murder weapon has just made impossible to ignore.

Harry Bosch is being sued for wrongful death by the family of a man he shot — a man he believed was the Dollmaker, a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes. As the civil trial grinds forward, a new body surfaces with the Dollmaker's signature, suggesting Bosch may have killed the wrong man.

Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between Los Angeles courthouses. When a wealthy Beverly Hills client hires him to fight a serious assault charge, Haller begins to suspect the man is guilty of something far worse — and that he has defended it before.

A dog turns up a child's bone on a Hollywood hillside, and Harry Bosch is drawn into a cold case two decades old: the murder of a boy whose body was buried and forgotten. As Bosch reconstructs a short, brutal life, the case tests his faith in the work — and a new love forces a reckoning about his future.

LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a Vietnam veteran found dead in a drainpipe in the Hollywood Hills — and discovers a trail leading to a daring bank heist tied to the tunnels both men once crawled through in the war.

A Hollywood film producer is found shot dead in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce in the hills above Mulholland Drive. The method — two bullets, body in the trunk — is a classic mob signature. Bosch's investigation pulls him from the Hollywood entertainment industry into the organized crime networks of Las Vegas.

The murder of a Hong Kong immigrant liquor store owner in South Los Angeles leads Bosch into a confrontation with triad extortion networks — and then to Hong Kong itself, when a video surfaces appearing to show his daughter Maddie in danger.

Suspended from the LAPD and ordered into therapy after assaulting his commanding officer, Harry Bosch turns his enforced downtime toward the one case he could never close: the unsolved murder of his own mother, a prostitute killed when he was a boy. The investigation forces him to confront the wound that made him.

Crime reporter Jack McEvoy refuses to believe his twin brother, a homicide detective, killed himself. Digging into the death, McEvoy uncovers a pattern: detectives across the country dying in staged suicides, each marked with a line of Edgar Allan Poe. He has stumbled onto a serial killer — and a story that could destroy him.

When a fellow defense attorney is murdered, Mickey Haller inherits his entire practice overnight — including a high-profile Hollywood double-murder trial. But the killer may not be finished, and as Haller prepares his defense, LAPD detective Harry Bosch warns him that he could be the next target.

Mickey Haller takes the case of a man accused of killing a prostitute — only to discover the victim was a woman he once represented, a client he thought he had saved from the life. Haunted by guilt over her death, Haller mounts a defense that becomes a personal reckoning before the only gods that matter: the jury.

Pulled over late at night, Mickey Haller is arrested when the body of a former client is found in the trunk of his Lincoln. Charged with murder and unable to make bail, Haller must defend the most important client of his career — himself — from a jail cell, against a system convinced he is guilty.

A crusading civil-rights attorney who made his name suing the LAPD is shot dead on the Angels Flight funicular railway. Harry Bosch catches a case that could set the whole city alight — and that forces him to investigate the police department he serves, knowing the wrong answer could spark a second Los Angeles riot.

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is recovering from a heart transplant when a woman asks him to investigate a murder: her sister's. The victim was McCaleb's heart donor. Bound by an unpayable debt to the dead, McCaleb takes the case — and uncovers a connection between the murder and his own second chance at life that is more sinister than he could imagine.

Working the late show — the LAPD's lonely overnight shift — Detective Renée Ballard finds a stranger going through old files at her station. He is Harry Bosch, chasing the long-cold murder of a teenage runaway no one else cares about. Two relentless detectives, a generation apart, join forces over a girl the system forgot.

Renée Ballard, now running the LAPD's revived cold-case unit, recruits a retired Harry Bosch with an irresistible lure: the chance to finally solve the case that has haunted him for years — the slaughter of an entire family, buried in the desert. As they chase two cold cases, Bosch confronts his white whale.

Mickey Haller has turned to freeing the wrongly convicted, and his investigator is none other than Harry Bosch. Their newest case: a woman serving life for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. As Bosch digs into the evidence and Haller prepares to overturn the conviction, they find powerful forces determined to keep the truth buried.

Twenty years ago, during the chaos of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a Danish photojournalist was shot dead in an alley, her killing lost among hundreds of others. Now a bullet links her case to other crimes, and Harry Bosch finally has a thread to pull — the single piece of evidence that can explain a murder everyone else forgot.

As midnight gunfire rings in the New Year over a pandemic-weary Los Angeles, a man is shot dead in the chaos — and Renée Ballard links the killing to a cold case that draws in Harry Bosch. At the same time, she hunts a pair of serial rapists called the Midnight Men, working a department and a city near breaking point.

Exiled to the LAPD's overnight shift after filing a harassment complaint, Detective Renée Ballard works the cases no one else wants and hands them off by dawn. But two brutal crimes in a single night — the beating of a young woman and a deadly nightclub shooting — are ones she refuses to let go, even if it costs her what's left of her career.

The widow of Harry Bosch's friend Terry McCaleb asks him to look into the retired profiler's death, which she refuses to believe was natural. Bosch's investigation collides with an FBI hunt for a resurrected serial killer — the Poet — and pulls him into the deadliest pursuit of his career, alongside agent Rachel Walling.

At the funeral of his old mentor, Harry Bosch is handed the dead man's secret: a murder book he stole decades ago and never returned, a case he hid for reasons no one understands. With Renée Ballard, Bosch sets out to learn why his mentor took the file — and to finally close the case he left undone.

When DNA evidence frees a convicted child-killer after twenty-four years, defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to do the unthinkable: switch sides and prosecute the retrial. With his ex-wife as co-counsel and Harry Bosch as investigator, Haller must convict a man the system already let go.

A dying aviation billionaire hires Harry Bosch to find out whether he fathered a child decades ago — a secret heir who could inherit a fortune. At the same time, working as a volunteer detective for a small police force, Bosch hunts a serial rapist. Two very different cases, one relentless investigator.

Two pharmacists are gunned down, and Harry Bosch goes undercover into the brutal world of opioid pill mills to find the killers. At the same time, a death-row inmate claims new DNA proves Bosch framed him decades ago — and to save his own integrity, Bosch must prove that the conviction was clean.

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is pulled back into the work to consult on a ritualistic murder — and the evidence he uncovers points, impossibly, to LAPD detective Harry Bosch. As McCaleb builds a case against a man he respects, Bosch is locked in a high-profile trial, unaware that an old colleague has turned his expert eye on him.

Now writing for a small consumer-watchdog news site, Jack McEvoy becomes a suspect when a woman he once spent a night with is found murdered. Clearing his name, he uncovers a killer who finds his victims through the data sold by consumer DNA-testing companies — and a terrifying new frontier where your genes are for sale.

Newly retired from the LAPD, Harry Bosch can't let go of the one case that haunts him: the unsolved murder of a young woman connected to a violent movie-set robbery. Without a badge, working alone, he reopens the investigation — and discovers that the case reaches into the FBI and the shadow of national security.

When a narcotics detective is found dead of an apparent suicide, Harry Bosch isn't satisfied with the easy answer. His unauthorized investigation leads from the LAPD's own ranks to the Mexican border and a deadly new drug called black ice, into a case the department would rather he leave alone.

Retired from the LAPD and at odds with the department, Harry Bosch is asked by his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, to investigate a murder Haller's client is accused of committing. For a lifelong cop, working for the defense is a betrayal of everything he believes — but if the client is innocent, the real killer is still free.

Harry Bosch catches two cases at once: a cold-case DNA hit that impossibly points to a suspect who was only eight years old at the time, and the fatal fall of a city councilman's son — investigated at the personal request of Bosch's oldest enemy. With his own retirement clock ticking, Bosch works both to the bone.

With the recession gutting his business, Mickey Haller has turned to foreclosure defense — until one of his clients, a woman fighting to keep her home, is accused of murdering the banker trying to take it. The case drags Haller back into the criminal courtroom, defending a client whose guilt is far from clear.

Laid off from the Los Angeles Times, crime reporter Jack McEvoy has two weeks left and one last story to chase. What looks like a routine murder becomes the trail of a serial killer who hides in the digital world — a data-center engineer who stalks his victims through the information they never knew they'd left behind.

When Renée Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen, the theft becomes a personal crisis on top of her cold-case work — including a decades-old serial-killer case she's chasing through genetic genealogy. Help arrives from an unexpected volunteer: Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter, now a patrol officer ready to take up the family calling.

Cassie Black, an ex-convict trying to go straight, agrees to one last high-stakes heist in Las Vegas — the score that will fund a new life and let her reclaim the daughter she gave up. But the job goes wrong, and a ruthless fixer is dispatched to recover what she took, hunting her across the desert in a deadly cat-and-mouse.

Scientist Henry Pierce gets a new phone number and starts receiving calls for a woman named Lilly — an escort who seems to have vanished. Unable to let it go, Pierce begins investigating her disappearance, and his obsessive curiosity drags him out of his ordered world and into a dangerous one that does not want to be examined.

A doctor is found executed at a scenic overlook above Los Angeles, and the discovery that he had access to radioactive cesium turns a murder into a potential terrorism crisis overnight. Harry Bosch must solve the case before federal agents take it over — and before the missing material can be used to kill thousands.