Michael Connelly

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Audio Tape - ISIS (2002)

The Last Coyote
Harry’s life is a mess. His girlfriend has left him. He’s drinking too much. And he’s even had to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation.
At first Bosch resists the LAPD shrink but finally he recognizes that something has long been troubling him. In 1961, when Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever accused of the crime.
Harry opens up the decades-old file and is irresistibly drawn into the past. It’s clear that the case was fumbled. His mother was a prostitute, and even thirty years later the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable . . .
Bosch relentlessly follows up old evidence, seeking justice or at least understanding. His investigations lead him to prominent people leading public lives in the Hollywood hills. And Harry finds that old passions don’t die. They cause new murders even today.

Dick Hill has recorded everything from sci-fi to non-fiction. In 1997, Hill received three nominations for best audiobook recording, a reflection of his character driven style, which he credits to a lifetime of observing and enjoying people. Hill has two grown children, and lives, loves gardens, and cooks with his talented wife, Susie Breck (another highly regarded audiobook narrator) in a medium-sized Midwestern town.
Unabridged: 10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs

Audio Tape ISIS (2001)

The Concrete Blonde
Harry Bosch, maverick homicide detective, is hauled into court, the chief defendant in a civil suit against the LAPD. The plaintiffs are the family of ‘The Dollmaker’, a notorious serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest three years before. Their allegation? That Bosch killed the wrong man - an accusation that becomes horribly plausible when a new body is found bearing all the hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying.
To clear his name, Bosch must prove that a copycat killer is at work. But can he?
‘Crackling authenticity . . . cunningly conceived . . . Connelly joins the top rank of a new generation of crime writers.’ Los Angeles Times Book Review

Audio Tape - ISIS (2001)

The Black Ice
CD edition
The official report said suicide. But in a city where murder is a sport, Harry Bosch isn’t ready to blame the victim.
Cal Moore had been investigating the city’s latest drug killing. He ended up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note in his back pocket.
Years ago, Bosch learned the first rule of good police work: don’t look for the facts, look for the glue that holds them together. Now he’s making some very dangerous connections, following a string of bloody murders from Hollywood Boulevard’s drug bazaar to back-alleys south of the border. Bosch is at the centre of a lethal game -and he could be its next victim.
Super-charged with tension, The Black Ice won’t let you go until its explosive ending.

Audio Tape ISIS (2001)

The Black Echo
The first novel to feature Michael Connelly’s great detective, the maverick Harry Bosch.
One Sunday Harry Bosch gets a call out on his pager. A body has been found in a drainage tunnel off Mulholland 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 called the black echo.
At first Meadows looks like just another overdose victim but then comes news that he may have been involved in a huge bank heist eight months earlier, a case which the FBI are investigating. When Harry goes to the Feds to reveal what he has learned, they dismiss both him and his evidence out of hand.
Harry let Meadows down once before. He won’t do it again.

Audio Tape - ISIS (2000)

Trunk Music
Michael Connelly returns with his most surprising and compelling Harry Bosch thriller yet.
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 boot 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. 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. Then, suddenly, he's yanked off the case. But only a bullet can stop Harry when he's searching for the truth...
'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'