Background
Michael Connelly was born on July 21, 1956, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the son of W. Michael Connelly, a property developer, and Mary Connelly, a homemaker.
2007
Michael Connelly with Chris Grabenstein and Clay Stafford at Killer Nashville in 2007.
2009
Michael Connelly with Mike Stotter, Ali Karim, and Ayo Onatade at the 2009 Crimefest conference in Bristol.
2012
Michael Connelly with Harlan Coben at a book signing at Barnes and Noble in 2012.
2013
10 E Exchange St, St Paul, MN 55101, United States
Michael Connelly with Kerri Miller during MPR's Talking Volumes series at the Fitzgerald Theater on December 3, 2013.
2016
Michael Connelly in Dublin on June 21, 2016.
2018
Michael Connelly with Cartier Diamond Dagger which he received in 2018.
2019
4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, United States
Michael Connelly at The Poisoned Pen in October 2019.
2019
Michael Connelly honored by Los Angeles City Council on June 21, 2019.
2019
Michael Connelly with Bob Connely, Linda Connelly, Titus Veliver, Rick Jackson, and Tim Marcia receiving Los Angeles City Council honor on June 21, 2019.
Edgar Allan Poe Award which Michael Connelly received in 1992.
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States
The University of Florida where Michael Connelly studied.
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70 Lincoln Center Plaza #4, New York, NY 10023, United States
Michael Connelly with James Egan, N.C. Heikin, Grace Kelly, Su Kim, and Mark Gross at Film at Lincoln Center
Dilys Award which Michael Connelly received in 1997.
Nero Award which Michael Connelly received in 1997.
Maltese Falcon Award which Michael Connelly received in 1995.
Michael Connelly receiving Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
(Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his ob...)
Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write - and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last may be McEvoy himself.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446602612/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent T...)
When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. But when Graciella tells him the way her sister, Gloria, was murdered, Terry realizes he has no choice. Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul. For Gloria's killer shatters every rule that McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau-as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life and just one shot at the truth.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GUXJUG/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Pors...)
In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run - with a near-psychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job. Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets: like who really set up the job, why Cassie had to take the change, and how, in the end, it might all be a matter of the moon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA5SKC/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren'...)
The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime" - doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing and where he becomes the chief suspect in a murder case, trapped in the fight of his life.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC1MN2/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer - a criminal defense attorney ...)
Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer - a criminal defense attorney operating out of the back of his car, a Lincoln - taking whatever cases the system throws at him. He's been a defense lawyer for a long time, and he knows just how to work the legal system. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller gets his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defense's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But then the case starts to fall apart. And neither the suspect nor the victim is quite who they seem, and Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, you might just end up as prey.
https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Lawyer-Richard-bestseller-Mickey-ebook/dp/B00374720W/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Defense lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems, but n...)
Defense lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems, but now he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer, Vincent, dies, and Haller gets an unexpected windfall: he inherits all Vincent's clients, putting his stalled career back on track at a stroke. Not only that, but Vincent had taken on a high-profile and potentially lucrative murder case. It'll be a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight - and if Mickey can win against the odds, he'll really be back in the big leagues. The only problem is the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to defend a client successfully who might just be planning to murder him.
https://www.amazon.com/Brass-Verdict-Harry-Bosch-Book-ebook/dp/B002S0KB5E/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budge...)
Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent. Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poet made his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar-and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack's.
https://www.amazon.com/Scarecrow-Michael-Connelly/dp/044640120X
2009
(Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his b...)
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too - and he's certain he's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/044655667X/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and th...)
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZAU0IOS/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood - also k...)
Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood - also known as the Late Show - beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns everything over to the day shift. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the investigations entwine, they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job, no matter what the department throws at her.
https://www.amazon.com/Late-Show-Michael-Connelly/dp/0316225983
2017
(Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat - known...)
Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat - known in LAPD slang as "the late show" - and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift - and she wants in. The murder, unsolved, was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice. Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0796R3RR4/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detectiv...)
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, and his widow gives Bosch a murder book, one that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD twenty years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man. Bosch takes the murder book to Detective Renée Ballard and asks her to help him discover what about this crime lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. As she begins her inqueries - while still working her own cases on the midnight shift - Ballad finds aspects of the initial investigation that just don't add up. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a disturbing question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316485616/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(Harry Bosch series consists of twenty books. Hieronymus “...)
Harry Bosch series consists of twenty books. Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch - a Los Angeles Police Department detective who retired and became a private investigator for a couple of novels, before returning to LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit, a fictional unit based on LAPD's actual Cold Case Homicide Unit, and later the Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD) Homicide Special Unit.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078MCZLBP?ref_=dbs_r_series&storeType=ebooks
Michael Connelly was born on July 21, 1956, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the son of W. Michael Connelly, a property developer, and Mary Connelly, a homemaker.
Michael Connelly moved at the age of 12 with his family from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School.
At age 16 he worked as a hotel dishwasher. On his way home from work, he saw a man throw an object into a hedge. Connelly decided to investigate and found that the object was a gun wrapped in a lumberjack shirt. After putting the gun back, he followed the man to a bar and then left to go home to tell his father. Later that night, Connelly brought the police down to the bar, but the man was already gone. This event introduced Connelly to the world of police officers and their lives, impressing him with the way they worked.
Then Connelly entered the University of Florida the Rinker School of Building Construction, studying construction management. He saw Robert Altman's film The Long Goodbye (1973) based on Raymond Chandler's eponymous 1953 novel. The film inspired him to become a mystery writer. Eventually, Connelly transferred to the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in 1980.
After graduating in 1980, Michael 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. 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. In 1987 he moved to California. Connelly spent the next few years on the crime beat for the Los Angeles paper, though his editors often tried to reassign him, knowing that journalists often burned out on that desk and its unrelentingly gruesome narratives.
His novel-writing career began with The Black Echo. The novel is based on the true incident but also remains part fictional. In the novel Connelly introduced now-famous LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch’s character, who bore some resemblance to his creator. The name of the protagonist is inspired by a Dutch painter, recognized for his paintings on the theme of sin and redemption. Connelly also views his work as a kind of painting where characters are moving around and colliding with each other at some point. He published two more successful books in the Harry Bosch series The Concrete Blonde (1994), and The Last Coyote (1995) before he started working on different projects. Connelly became an instant success with the publication of his other novels. The Poet (1996) featured a new protagonist named James McEvoy. McEvoy is a crime reporter who investigates his brother’s alleged suicide.
First-person and the third-person narrative is employed alternatively in the novel to shift focus from one character to the other which gives the novel a mysterious air. Connelly’s Blood Work (1998) introduces FBI agent criminal profiler Terry McCaleb’s character. McCaleb had a heart transplant and tries to pursue the murderer of the heart donor. The story was inspired by the organ transplant of Connelly’s friend. The novel’s success led to its adaptation into a movie by Clint Eastwood starring himself as the lead. Connelly delved into legal thriller writing with the publication of The Lincoln Lawyer in 2005. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his novel The Lincoln Lawyer hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent bestsellers include Dark Sacred Night, Two Kinds Of Truth, The Late Show, The Wrong Side Of Goodbye, The Crossing, The Burning Room, The Gods of Guilt, and The Black Box.
The most recent novel The Night Fire (2019) is the second novel featuring detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch together (after 2018’s Dark Sacred Night). Michael Connelly is the executive producer of Bosch, an Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. Bosch streams on Amazon Prime Video. He is the creator and host of the podcast Murder Book. He is also the executive producer of the documentary films, Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story and Tales of the American.
(Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budge...)
2009(Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat - known...)
2018(Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood - also k...)
2017(Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detectiv...)
2019(Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer - a criminal defense attorney ...)
2005(Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and th...)
2013(Defense lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems, but n...)
2008(When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent T...)
1998(The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren'...)
2002(Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his ob...)
1996(Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his b...)
2011(In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Pors...)
2000(Harry Bosch series consists of twenty books. Hieronymus “...)
Michael Connelly was inspired by James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block.
Quotations:
"I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system."
"I think you always have to have some responsibility when you write up the bad guys."
"There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there."
"You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
"What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe."
Michael married Linda McCaleb in April 1984. The marriage produced one child.