Harry Bosch Universe Series by Michael Connelly, Dick Hill

4.16 · 1084 ratings
  • The Black Echo (Harry Bosch Universe #1)
    #1

    The Black Echo (Harry Bosch Universe #1)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings · published 1992

    For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit... more

  • The Black Ice (Harry Bosch Universe #2)
    #2

    The Black Ice (Harry Bosch Universe #2)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 1993

    Narcotics office Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together... more

  • The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Universe #3)
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    The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Universe #3)

    Michael Connelly, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 1994

    Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions.The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare... more

  • The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch Universe #4)
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    The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch Universe #4)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 1995

    Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime.With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided... more

  • The Poet (Harry Bosch Universe #5)
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    The Poet (Harry Bosch Universe #5)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings · published 1996

    Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime, if he can get the story without losing his life.

  • Trunk Music (Harry Bosch Universe #6)
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    Trunk Music (Harry Bosch Universe #6)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 1997

    Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge. But his first case is a little more than he bargained for. It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit... more

  • Angels Flight (Harry Bosch Universe #7)
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    Angels Flight (Harry Bosch Universe #7)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings · published 1999

    An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive. The question is, did any have the guts?

  • Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe #8)
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    Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe #8)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings · published 1998

    New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achievement to date--a novel of masterly suspense and righteous obsession that will never let you go.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, it leaves Terry no choice... more

  • A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch Universe #9)
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    A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch Universe #9)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings · published 2000

    Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac... more

  • City of Bones (Harry Bosch Universe #10)
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    City of Bones (Harry Bosch Universe #10)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 2002

    Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year-old murder case - with an explosive ending that leave all Bosch fans hungrily awaiting the next instalment.When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch... more

  • Lost Light (Harry Bosch Universe #11)
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    Lost Light (Harry Bosch Universe #11)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 2003

    In this New York Times bestseller, retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch wants justice for a murdered production assistant -- but without his police badge, can he take down a powerful and ruthless killer? The vision has haunted him for four years -- a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication... more

  • Void Moon (Harry Bosch Universe #12)
    #12

    Void Moon (Harry Bosch Universe #12)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings · published 1999

    New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die. 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... more

  • The Narrows (Harry Bosch Universe #13)
    #13

    The Narrows (Harry Bosch Universe #13)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 2004

    FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep... more

  • The Closers (Harry Bosch Universe #14)
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    The Closers (Harry Bosch Universe #14)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings · published 2005

    Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases. The murder of a 16 year old girl in 1988 is his first file. A DNA match makes the case very much alive again, and it turns out to be anything but cold. The ripples from this death have destroyed at least two other lives, and everywhere he probes, Bosch finds hot grief, hot rage, and a bottomless well of betrayal and malice... more

  • The Lincoln Lawyer (Harry Bosch Universe #15)
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    The Lincoln Lawyer (Harry Bosch Universe #15)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings · published 2005

    Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list... more

  • Echo Park (Harry Bosch Universe #16)
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    Echo Park (Harry Bosch Universe #16)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings · published 2006

    More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found... more

  • The Overlook (Harry Bosch Universe #17)
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    The Overlook (Harry Bosch Universe #17)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings · published 2007

    In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death... more

  • The Brass Verdict (Harry Bosch Universe #18)
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    The Brass Verdict (Harry Bosch Universe #18)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 2008

    Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next.Enter Harry Bosch... more

  • The Scarecrow (Harry Bosch Universe #19)
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    The Scarecrow (Harry Bosch Universe #19)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 2009

    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 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... more

  • Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch Universe #20)
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    Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch Universe #20)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 2009

    Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing... more

  • The Reversal (Harry Bosch Universe #21)
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    The Reversal (Harry Bosch Universe #21)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 2010

    Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller finds himself recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder.After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means convicted killer Jason Jessup has been granted another trial. Haller takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.Haller becomes convinced Jessup is guilty. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger... more

  • The Fifth Witness (Harry Bosch Universe #22)
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    The Fifth Witness (Harry Bosch Universe #22)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings · published 2011

    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... more

  • The Drop (Harry Bosch Universe #23)
    #23

    The Drop (Harry Bosch Universe #23)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 2011

    Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics... more

  • The Black Box (Harry Bosch Universe #24)
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    The Black Box (Harry Bosch Universe #24)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 2012

    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... more

  • The Gods of Guilt (Harry Bosch Universe #25)
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    The Gods of Guilt (Harry Bosch Universe #25)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 2013

    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 the life... more

  • The Burning Room (Harry Bosch Universe #26)
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    The Burning Room (Harry Bosch Universe #26)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 2014

    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 any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case... more

  • The Crossing (Harry Bosch Universe #27)
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    The Crossing (Harry Bosch Universe #27)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings · published 2015

    Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup.Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop... more

  • The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch Universe #28)
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    The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch Universe #28)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 2016

    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 thirty 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... more

  • The Late Show (Harry Bosch Universe #29)
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    The Late Show (Harry Bosch Universe #29)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 2017

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, a new thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPDRenée 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... more

  • Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch Universe #30)
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    Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch Universe #30)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 2017

    Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organized pill mills... more

  • Dark Sacred Night (Harry Bosch Universe #31)
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    Dark Sacred Night (Harry Bosch Universe #31)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings · published 2018

    LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only 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 kicks him out, but then checks into the case herself and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger... more

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