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Michael Connelly
Void MoonVoid Moon
The Harry Bosch MysteriesThe Harry Bosch Mysteries
Angels FlightAngels Flight
Blood WorkBlood Work
Trunk MusicTrunk Music


First British Edition Orion (2000)
Void Moon
A sassy blonde lures Michael Connelly into crime
Michael Connelly, international No.1 Bestselling author of Angels Flight, is back with a new pulse-pounding thriller that is his most surprising and challenging to date. But this time the hero is not a cop but a hard-boiled female ex-con who is lured back to a life of crime.
Void Moon is a breathtakingly original thriller set in glittery, surreal Las Vegas. Cassie Black; a feisty, yet vulnerable ex-criminal - breaks her parole for a set up that is too good to ignore. But the bait which persuades her to return to her old profession of robbing casino gamblers of their winnings turns out to be a scam that may cost her the one thing she holds dearer than her own life.
Connelly's idea for the character of Cassie came to him whilst working as a Police Reporter for the L.A. Times. An LAPD officer told him about a notorious 'hot-prowler' who was working the Sunset Strip, going into hotel rooms while people were sleeping and stealing their money, jewellery and lap-tops. According to Connelly:
'It made me think about the possibilities and the skill, though misplaced, it takes to undergo this sort of crime. I was looking for a new challenge and decided on this story, the challenge being to make a burglar - a criminal - sympathetic to the reader. '
The challenge has been fulfilled. Cassie's escape from a contract killer who somehow knows her every move in advance keeps you riveted until the very last page. This is Michael Connelly at his very best. Connelly's novels have won the Anthony, Nero, Maltese Falcon (Japan), Grand Prix (France) and .38 Caliber awards. The film rights for all his novels have been sold, with the first three in development by Paramount who are lining up Harrison Ford to play the lead, whilst Blood Work was optioned by Clint Eastwood. His books have sold millions.
'Void Moon is Michael Connelly at his best and that is the very best where thriller writing is concerned' Irish Times
'Connelly is a crime-writing genius. His Harry Bosch stories are genuine modern classics, and this one's in the same league… unmissable' Independent on Sunday
'Michael Connelly is one of the top crime writers of the decade and should be better known to British readers. His laid-back, emotionally bruised Los Angeles detective, Harry Bosch, is a memorable creation ' The Times
'Michael Connelly...twists the plot until it screams. Unputdownable is a word I rarely use, but I have to apply it to this riveting book' Sunday Telegraph
'Brilliantly done: one of the finest examples this side of the Atlantic, of what used to be called 'police procedurals ' Daily Telegraph
'Exemplary LA-based thriller... exciting, authentic, grimly satisfying' Literary Review
'The plot is cunning, the language stirringly authentic and the excitement almost unbearable. Connelly's high reputation should increase ' Frances Fyfield, Mail On Sunday


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Paperback - Orion (2000)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Harry Bosch Mysteries
Michael Connelly's great detective, maverick Harry Bosch, is introduced in the first three novels of this acclaimed series.
The Black Echo
(Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) One Sunday Harry Bosch gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mullholland Drive, Hollywood. And Harry knows him. Billy Meadows was a fellow tunnel rat out in Vietnam, running against the VC and against the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won’t do it again.
The Black Ice
The corps in the hotel room appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumours abound that the cop had over - selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating LA from Mexico ? and the LAPD brass are quick to declare his death a suicide. Harry Bosch isn’t so sure
The Concrete Blonde
When Maverick LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker - the city's most bizarre serial killer. But now Norman Church's widow is accusing Bosch of killing the wrong man, and to make things worse Bosch has just received a taunting note, apparently from the Dollmaker himself….
'The strongest crime series being written in America now' Spectator


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Paperback - Orion (1999)
First British Edition Orion (1998)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Angels Flight
Shortlisted for the British Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award
When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a funicular in downtown LA, there's not a detective in the city who wants to touch the case. For Elias specialises in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism and corruption and every LAPD cop is a possible suspect in his killing.
Detective Harry Bosch is put in charge. Elias's murder occurred on the eve of a major trial: on behalf of a black client, Michael Harris, Elias was to bring a civil case against the LAPD for violent interrogation tactics that had caused his client the partial loss of his hearing. Harris had been acquitted of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl, but many, including Bosch, believe him guilty. Elias had let it be known that the trial would serve a dual purpose - to target and bring down the guilty cops and to expose the real murderer of the little girl. Post Rodney King, the 1992 riots and the trial of O J Simpson, the City of Angels is living on its nerves. To discover the truth Harry must dig deep in his own backyard- except that it's a minefield of suspicion and hate that could detonate in his face. And as if he didn't have enough on his mind, his happiness with Eleanor Wish looks to be shortlived. Five cards on the felt are pulling her back to a place where Harry cannot follow, back to herself.
With Angels Flight, the matchless Michael Connelly has delivered another hugely accomplished, heartfelt and stunningly authentic thriller.
'No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly. Guaranteed to keep you riveted until the very last page' Time Out
'Unputdownable is a word I rarely use, but I have to apply it to this riveting book' Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph
'Gritty background… Gripping narrative… Exciting, authentic, grimly satisfying' Philip Oakes, Literary Review


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First British Edition Orion (1998)
Blood Work
See Review by Andrew Taylor - author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
Blood Work. That's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Tracking serial killers.
But that's all over now. Too much stress left him with a bad heart and a worse prognosis. Until a donor died and gave Terry the new heart he needed for a transplant.
Then, eight weeks later, Terry suddenly discovers that he's alive because of a brutal crime. A murder victim's heart beats in his chest. But the police still have no suspects and no leads in the case. So Terry decides to jump-start the investigation.
It quickly becomes clear to him that the police have missed something. And soon Terry is on the trail of a killer whose crimes are as baffling and horrifying as anything he ever encountered in the FBI.
'Time after time Connelly catches the reader off guard and send the story in an unexpected direction… This is his best novel yet, and it cements an already impressive reputation' Independent on Saturday
'A super-duper plot structure as elaborately built as a Chinese puzzle… The final twist in the tail is as good as I've come across in many a year' Irish Times


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First British Edition Orion (1997)
Trunk Music
See Review by Leandra Holder
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch lands himself' his first case: a Hollywood producer called Tony Aliso found in the trunk of a Rolls Royce, bound and shot twice in the head.
At first it looks as though the Mafia put an end to Tony’s tawdry career - he'd been laundering money for them. But the IRS were on to him, so maybe the mob were covering their tracks? Harry soon finds that nothing is that simple - the supposed mob hitman is in fact an undercover FBI agent.
The LAPD's organised crime unit is curiously uninterested, so Harry follows the money trail to the casinos and strip joints of Las Vegas, where he rekindles an old romance with ex-FBI agent Eleanor Wish - and finds himself caught in a labyrinth of' deception and double-dealing. Then, suddenly, he gets warned off the case. But only a bullet can stop Harry when he's searching for the truth...
Time Out said of Michael Connelly's previous bestseller The Poet, 'An unputdownable masterclass in thriller writing, this will become a classic.' Now Connelly returns with his most surprising and compelling Harry Bosch thriller yet.
'The strongest crime series being written in America now' Spectator
'Impressive… convincing ambience, a mass of procedural detail, authentic dialogue, a speeding plot and a flawed hero' The Times
'The in-depth knowledge informs every turn of a wonderfully Byzantine plot… Buy this bravura display.' Sunday Times
'Sharp and scary... as gripping as it is disturbing' Company
'fairly coruscates with all that goes to make a good crime thriller even better' Irish Times


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