Michael Connelly has 87 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 82 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 6,246 ratings. The most-rated is The Night Fire.
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Summary
Detective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed in the new thriller from number-one New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from 30 years with the LAPD speak for themselves. Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret. When he was young, he had a relationship with a Mexican girl, his great love. But soon after becoming pregnant, she disappeared. Did she have the baby? And if so, what happened to it? Desperate to know whether he has an heir, the dying magnate hires Bosch, the only person he can trust. With such a vast fortune at stake, Harry realizes that his mission could be risky not only for himself but for the one he's seeking. But as he begins to uncover the haunting story - and finds uncanny links to his own past - he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth. At the same time, unable to leave cop work behind completely, he volunteers as an investigator for a tiny cash-strapped police department and finds himself tracking a serial rapist who is one of the most baffling and dangerous foes he has ever faced. Swift, unpredictable, and thrilling, The Wrong Side of Goodbye shows that Michael Connelly "continues to amaze with his consistent skill and sizzle" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
©2016 Michael Connelly (P)2016 Hachette Audio
Nine Dragons
Summary
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain inthe fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough SouthL.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll findthe killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation--not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and expectations that guided Li's life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, alethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S. And instantly his world explodes. The one goodthing in Bosch's life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing bid to regain what he's lost. In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has ina desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity.
©2009 Michael Connelly (P)2009 Hachette
Volte-face
Summary
Grand avocat de la défense, Mickey Haller est fort surpris lorsque le procureur du comté de Los Angeles lui demande de plaider pour l'accusation. Et l'affaire est importante : incarcéré depuis vingt-quatre ans pour le meurtre d'une fillette, Jason Jessup vient d'être libéré, le tribunal souhaitant une révision de son procès après un test ADN qui semble l'innocenter. Haller est persuadé que Jessup est coupable et prend Harry Bosch comme enquêteur. Face à lui, l'avocat Clive Royce, dit "l'astucieux" et des médias excités par cette sensationnelle "erreur judiciaire". Mais Jason Jessup, qui parade devant les caméras le jour, se livre à d'étranges activités la nuit... Jacques Chaussepied restitue avec brio le rythme de ce thriller "urbain", qui en dit long sur les rapports complexes de la justice et des médias outre-Atlantique.
©2012 Calmann-Lévy. Traduit de l'anglais par Robert Pépin (P)2012 Audiolib
The Overlook
Summary
This pulse-quickening thriller from master of suspense Michael Connelly sees Harry Bosch plunged into the dangerous world of international terrorism. When a physicist is murdered in Los Angeles, it seems the killer has no fear of publicity, leaving the body on The Overlook, a site with a stunning view over the city. And when it's discovered that the victim turned over a quantity of a lethal chemicals to his killer before he died, Harry knows he has more than just a single death to worry about. Alongside the forces of US Homeland Security, Harry realizes he must solve the murder - or face unimaginable consequences.
©2007 Michael Connelly (P)2007 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion
Summary
From Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post - Civil War frontier, from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, these gripping stories trace the perils and occasional triumphs of lawmen and women who put themselves in harm's way to face down the bad guys. Some of them even walk the edge of becoming bad guys themselves. In T. Jefferson Parker's "Skinhead Central", an ex-cop and his wife find unexpected menace in the idyllic setting they have chosen for their retirement. In Alafair Burke's "Winning", a female officer who is attacked in the line of duty must protect her own husband from his worst impulses. In Edward D. Hoch's "Friday Night Luck", a wanna-be cop blows his chance at a spot on the force---and breaks his case. In Michael Connelly's "Father's Day", Harry Bosch faces one of his most emotionally trying cases, investigating a young boy's death. The magnificent and never-before-published Connelly story alone is worth the price of admission and---combined with eighteen unexpected tales from crime's modern masters---makes this an unmissable collection.
©2008 Mystery Writers of America, Inc. (P)2008 Tantor
The Night Fire
Summary
Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him - new from number one New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly 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, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renée Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
©2019 Michael Connelly (P)2019 Hachette Audio
The Late Show
Summary
From New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly, a new thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD. Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. 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 cases 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 own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the cases 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.
©2017 Hieronymus, Inc. (P)2017 Hachette Audio
Blue on Black
Summary
From the New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly, a short story featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch and FBI agent Rachel Walling. Two women have gone missing, and LAPD detective Harry Bosch has a strong suspicion that an avid fisherman named Denninger is the culprit. Bosch needs something stronger than a suspicion to bring Denninger in, but all he has are a handful of photos - prior mug shots and pictures of Denninger posing with his prize fish. It's not much to go on, and Bosch is running out of time, which is why he calls in FBI agent Rachel Walling. What she sees in these photos could blow his case wide open. "Blue on Black" by Michael Connelly is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books' Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com, and listen to them all!
©2016 Michael Connelly (P)2016 Hachette Audio
The Lineup
Summary
A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from? What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to make Harry Bosch a Vietnam vet tunnel rat? Why is Lee Child's Jack Reacher a drifter? How did a brief encounter in Botswana inspire Alexander McCall Smith to create Precious Ramotswe? In The Lineup, some of the top mystery writers in the world tell about the genesis of their most beloved characters - or, in some cases, let their creations do the talking.
©2009 Otto Penzler (P)2010 Tantor
Il passaggio
Summary
Harry Bosch è nato con una missione, quella di cercare la verità e operare per la giustizia. Ma ora che è in pensione questi due obiettivi devono essere accantonati. È un nuovo capitolo della sua vita che si apre, un capitolo in cui è ancora più solo, anche perché sua figlia tra poco partirà per il college. Un capitolo in cui deve riempire le giornate e darsi uno scopo. E così Harry cerca di mettere in atto un progetto a cui pensava da tempo, quello di riparare una vecchia Harley-Davidson stazionata nel suo garage. Non ci riuscirà. Non perché gli manchi la capacità, ma perché il suo fratellastro, l'avvocato Mickey Haller, ha bisogno di lui. Un suo cliente, un giovane nero con un passato tumultuoso, è accusato di aver ucciso una donna, una funzionaria molto in vista della municipalità di Los Angeles. Ma Haller è convinto che non sia lui il colpevole e chiede a Bosch di portargli le prove della sua innocenza. Per Harry significa ricominciare a indagare, questa volta senza distintivo, senza il supporto di una struttura organizzata come quella della polizia, e soprattutto a favore della difesa, una mossa che non lo rende affatto felice. Si deciderà a farlo solo quando si rende conto che l'accusato è davvero innocente, e non sarà facile. Chi l'ha intrappolato, e perché? Harry non smetterà di scavare finché, in un crescendo ricco di suspense, porterà alla luce un intrigo brutale basato sulla avidità, il ricatto, la corruzione.
©2017 Piemme (P)2020 Piemme
La fiamma nel buio
Summary
Un caso che lui non può abbandonare. E che solo insieme a lei riuscirà a risolvere. È un giorno triste, per Harry Bosch, quello del funerale dell'ex poliziotto John Jack Thompson. Un uomo che ha dedicato quarant'anni di vita al LAPD, ma soprattutto un maestro per molti giovani detective alle prime armi. Uno di questi era stato proprio Bosch, che adesso, appoggiato al suo bastone dopo l'operazione al ginocchio che ha subito, osserva da lontano il gruppetto convenuto al cimitero, pensando alle cose che ha imparato da lui. Ad esempio, a capire quando qualcuno sta mentendo durante un interrogatorio. John Jack sapeva riconoscere un bugiardo. Non se n'era mai fatto scappare uno. Ma quando si avvicina a Margaret, la moglie di Thompson, Bosch non si aspetta di scoprire che, anche dalla tomba, John Jack abbia un altro bugiardo da incastrare. Un caso irrisolto di vent'anni prima, l'omicidio di un ragazzo ritrovato senza vita in un vicolo frequentato da spacciatori. Un caso che John Jack si era portato in pensione con sé, trafugando il fascicolo dagli archivi del LAPD. Bosch decide di occuparsene. E c'è una sola persona, dentro la polizia, che può aiutarlo: Renée Ballard. Così, tra un crimine e l'altro del suo turno di notte - "l'ultimo spettacolo", come lo chiamano i poliziotti losangelini - Renée farà di nuovo coppia con Bosch per riaprire piste sepolte da anni di bugie. Perché tutti i bugiardi, prima o poi, fanno i conti con la verità.
©2020 Piemme (P)2020 Piemme
L'ultimo giro della notte
Summary
"La scarica di adrenalina adesso era una locomotiva in corsa nelle sue vene. Nel profondo di sé, Renée Ballard sapeva che era per via di momenti come questo che non avrebbe mai mollato, qualsiasi cosa dicessero di lei, in qualsiasi turno la obbligassero a lavorare." La polizia di Los Angeles non è stata gentile con Renée Ballard: ex reporter di nera, è entrata in polizia stufa di scrivere di crimini, e impaziente di risolverne qualcuno, e in poco tempo è diventata detective alla Omicidi. Ma poi qualcosa è andato storto. E adesso la detective Ballard è relegata al turno di notte, insieme al collega Jenkins, a godersi dagli scomodissimi posti in prima fila quello che in polizia chiamano "l'ultimo spettacolo". Ciò che di peggio la notte losangelina ha da offrire. Qualunque cosa accada, però, alle sette del mattino il turno finisce: l'ultimo giro di ruota della notte non consente mai ai detective dell'"ultimo spettacolo" di vedere un crimine risolto, di seguire un caso fino alla fine. E così anche questa notte. Un travestito picchiato selvaggiamente, trovato sul lungomare in punto di morte; una cameriera aspirante attrice freddata sul pavimento del Dancers, un locale di Hollywood. Ballard e Jenkins sono subito sulle scene del crimine. Ma stavolta Renée, che non è famosa per l'amore delle regole, decide di fregarsene delle procedure: perché dietro i due crimini ha intravisto più che un casuale scoppio di violenza. In una Los Angeles nera come non mai, Michael Connelly ambienta una nuova storia, intrecciando più casi e soprattutto presentandoci un nuovo personaggio - destinato a incontrarsi presto anche con Harry Bosch -, una detective tosta, solitaria e dalla corazza durissima. Una che non ha nessuna intenzione di mollare.
©2018 Piemme (P)2018 Piemme
The Black Box
Summary
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "black box", the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together. Riveting and relentlessly paced, The Black Box leads Harry Bosch, "one of the greats of crime fiction" (New York Daily News), into one of his most fraught and perilous cases.
©2012 Michael Connelly (P)2012 Hachette Audio
A Darkness More Than Night
Summary
Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've missed. McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.
©2001 by Hieronymus, Inc., All Rights Reserved (P)2001 Time Warner AudioBooks, a Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing
The Scarecrow
Summary
Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling readership and revenues, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school who couldn't find the police station if it was right next store to the Times, which it is. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win newspaper journalism's highest honor - a Pulitzer Prize. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-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.
©2009 Hieronymus, Inc. (P)2009 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
The Burning Room
Summary
The new thriller from number one New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly follows Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner as they investigate a recent murder where the trigger was pulled nine years earlier. In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Beginning with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveal that this shooting may have been anything but random. In this gripping new novel, Michael Connelly shows once again why Harry Bosch is "one of the greats of crime fiction" (New York Daily News).
©2014 Michael Connelly (P)2014 Hachette Audio
Murderers' Row: Original Baseball Mysteries, Volume 1
Summary
Seven original baseball short stories in the mystery and murder genres, written by an all-star lineup of writers, each of whom understand the game's lore and tactical nuances as well as its deep roots in American life. Compiled by Otto Penzler, the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction. Stories include: "Keller's Designated Hitter" by Lawrence Block - Professional hitman John Keller is after a pro ballplayer whose hitting average hasn't kept up with his expensive contract. "Pinch Hitter, A Nathan Heller Story" by Max Allan Collins - Fact and fiction mix in this preposterous and amusing whodunit. When bold Bill Veeck brings the first midget, Eddie Gaedel, into baseball as a pinch-hitter and he is found dead, private eye Nat Heller investigates. "Two Bagger" by Michael Connelly - Connelly pens a gripping and emotional father-son story of an ex-con who meets a pair of cops while at a Dodger game. "Strike Zone" by K.C. Constantine - Ex-pitcher goes on a stone-throwing rampage. "A Family Game" by Brendan DuBois - Youth baseball causes great turmoil in the life of a former mobster under witness protection in a small rural town. "Chickasaw Charlie Hoke" by Elmore Leonard - The little lies of an aging former ballplayer become vividly painful when he exaggerates about his pitiful career. "Sacrifice Hit" by John Lescroart - What ghastly adult passions arise when a Little League benchwarmer, who saw more time in the dugout than in the game, suddenly dies of a rattlesnake bite while his team is preparing for the game that will decide who will go to the Little League World Series.
©2001 Otto Penzler (P)2001 / 2017 New Millennium Entertainment / Phoenix Books
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El poeta [The Poet]
Summary
Jack McEvoy es un periodista especializado en crímenes. Su hermano, policía de homicidios, aparentemente se ha suicidado. Cuando se decide a escribir sobre el asunto, descubre el rastro de El Poeta, un asesino en serie que ha dejado junto a sus ocho víctimas, todas ellas policías, falsas notas de suicidio con versos de Edgar Allan Poe. Su descubrimiento hace que intervenga el FBI. Uno de los agentes, Rachel Walling, personaje habitual en las novelas de Michael Connelly, desempeña un papel fundamental en la investigación, aunque finalmente el asesino consigue escaparse. En Cauces de maldad continuará la persecución de El Poeta. En esta ocasión, junto a Rachel Walling encontraremos a Harry Bosch. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©1995 Michael Connelly; Primera edicion: octubre de 2009; de la traduccion: Darío Giménez; de esta edicion: Roca Editorial de Libros, S.L. (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
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The Lincoln Lawyer [Russian edition]
Summary
Mikki Holler - advokat po ugolovnym delam. Ego ofis - zadnee siden'e "linkol'na", v kotorom on puteshestvuet mezhdu sudami Los-Andzhelesa; klienty - shulery, drachuny, p'yanye voditeli i tomu podobnaya bratiya. Dlya cinika Hollera, v obshchem-to, nevazhno, vinoven ili net ego podzashchitnyj. Razve pravosudie - ne tot zhe torg? No nakonec v etoj mutnoj vodice Mikki vylavlivaet krupnuyu rybu: plejboya iz Beverli-Hillz, arestovannogo za napadenie na zhenshchinu, kotoruyu tot snyal v bare. Po mere nakopleniya ulik Holler prihodit k vyvodu, chto eto, veroyatno, samoe legkoe delo v ego kar'ere. I zhestoko oshibaetsya. Teper' emu pridetsya proyavit' nedyuzhinnuyu izobretatel'nost', chtoby spasti sobstvennuyu zhizn'. Roman otkryvaet populyarnuyu seriyu o talantlivom advokate Mikki Hollere, kotoryj beretsya za samye beznadezhnye dela. Pust' kto-to schitaet ego besprincipnym, zato ego kredo: "Ne dopustit' osuzhdeniya nevinovnogo".
©2019 ?????? - Azbooka (AZBOOKA-ATTICUS PUBLISHING GROUP LLC) (P)2019 ?????? - Azbooka (AZBOOKA-ATTICUS PUBLISHING GROUP LLC)
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El eco negro [The Black Echo]
Summary
Harry Bosch, detective de la Policía de Los Ángeles, ha sido siempre un solitario. Hijo de una prostituta asesinada, fue criado en orfanatos y luego quedó marcado por la dura experiencia de Vietnam. Ahora, un caso rutinario de muerte por sobredosis lo devuelve a su pasado. La víctima, Billy Meadows, había servido en su misma unidad. Ambos eran "ratas de túnel", ambos combatieron en los túneles del Viet Cong, y ambos habían experimentado el horror del "eco negro". Ahora Meadows está muerto, pero su rastro parece apuntar a un gran atraco bancario perpetrado a través de la red de túneles del alcantarillado. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©1992 Michael Connelly; Primera edicion: septiembre de 2011; de la traduccion: Helena Martin; de esta edicion: Roca Editorial de Libros, S.L. (P)2015 Audible Inc.