Michael Connelly

author : Michael Connelly

website : http://www.michaelconnelly.com/

born : in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States Website

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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,Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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 26 more novels.

Fifty-eight million copies of Connelly’s books have sold worldwide and he has been translated into thirty-nine foreign languages. He has won the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Award, Los Angeles Times Best Mystery/Thriller Award, Shamus Award, Dilys Award, Nero Award, Barry Award, Audie Award, Ridley Award, Maltese Falcon Award (Japan), .38 Caliber Award (France), Grand Prix Award (France), Premio Bancarella Award (Italy), and the Pepe Carvalho award (Spain) .
Michael was the President of the Mystery Writers of America organization in 2003 and 2004. In addition to his literary work, Michael is one of the producers and writers of the TV show, “Bosch,” which is streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video. Watch in the USA: http://amzn.to/192NqZE. Watch in the UK: http://amzn.to/1BAHm3Z. Watch in Germany: http://amzn.to/1zQ8T1X. He was also one of the creators, writers, and consulting producers of Level 9, a TV show about a task force fighting cyber crime, that ran on UPN in the Fall of 2000. And he can sometimes be seen on the hit TV show Castle playing poker!
Michael lives with his family in Florida.

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly Book Series

Blue on Black

The Black Ice (1993)

Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Nine Dragons

The Late Show

City of Bones

The Overlook

The Crossing

The Poet (1995)

Murder Worthy

The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2

The Harry Bosch Novels

The Gods of Guilt

The Black Echo

The Reversal

Two Kinds of Truth

The Best American Mystery Stories 2003

The Rag

The Brass Verdict

The Black Echo (1992)

Switchblade

The Last Coyote

The Narrows

The Concrete Blonde (1994)

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (2005)

The Safe Man: A Ghost Story

Angels Flight (1998)

Void Moon

The Drop

Trunk Music

The Night Fire

The Black Ice

Chased Down

The Closers

The Burning Room

Angels Flight

SSC (2012) Mulholland Drive

Chasing the Dime

The Lincoln Lawyer

Blood Work (1998)

Echo Park

A Darkness More Than Night

Dark Sacred Night - Ballard and Bosch #1;Renée Ballard #2

Lost Light

The Scarecrow

The Concrete Blonde

Angle of Investigation

Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories

The Law of Innocence

Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation

City Of Bones (2002)

Chasing the Dime (2002)

The Safe Man

Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel)

Harry Bosch 01 - The Black Echo

Angle of Investigation: Three Harry Bosch Short Stories

The Harry Bosch Novels Box Set 1

The Concrete Blonde hb-3

The Black Box hb-18

Short Stories

The Black Ice hb-2

The Last Coyote (1995)

The Gods of Guilt mh-5

Trunk Music (1996)

Harry Bosch 02 - The Black Ice

Dark Sacred Night

Cielo Azul

9 Dragons

The Narrows (2004)

The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch Series)

In The Shadow Of The Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Void Moon (1999)

Switchblade: An Original Story (harry bosch)

The Harry Bosch Novels, Volume 2

Switchblade: An Original Story

The Closers (2005)

Crime Beat