Harry Bosch Series by Michael Connelly, Dick Hill, Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz

4.17 · 924 ratings
  • The Black Echo (Harry Bosch #1)
    #1

    The Black Echo (Harry Bosch #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 #2)
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    The Black Ice (Harry Bosch #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 #3)
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    The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch #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 #4)
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    The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch #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

  • Trunk Music (Harry Bosch #5)
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    Trunk Music (Harry Bosch #5)

    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 #6)
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    Angels Flight (Harry Bosch #6)

    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?

  • A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch #7)
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    A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch #7)

    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 #8)
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    City of Bones (Harry Bosch #8)

    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 #9)
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    Lost Light (Harry Bosch #9)

    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

  • The Narrows (Harry Bosch #10)
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    The Narrows (Harry Bosch #10)

    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 #11)
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    The Closers (Harry Bosch #11)

    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

  • Echo Park (Harry Bosch #12)
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    Echo Park (Harry Bosch #12)

    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 #13)
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    The Overlook (Harry Bosch #13)

    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

  • Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch #14)
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    Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch #14)

    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

  • Blue on Black (Harry Bosch #14.5)
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    Blue on Black (Harry Bosch #14.5)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2010

    A short story featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch and FBI agent Rachel Walling. The story was first published in the 2010 anthology Hook, Line & Sinister.

  • Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories (Harry Bosch #14.6)
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    Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories (Harry Bosch #14.6)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2011

    LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in three never-before-collected stories.In "Suicide Run," the apparent suicide of a beautiful young starlet turns out to be much more sinister than it seems. In "Cielo Azul," Bosch is haunted by a long-ago closed case -- the murder of a teenage girl who was never identified. As her killer sits on death row, Bosch tries one last time to get the answers he has sought for years... more

  • Angle of Investigation (Harry Bosch #14.7)
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    Angle of Investigation (Harry Bosch #14.7)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2011

    LAPD Detective Harry Bosch tackles three tough cases that span a legendary career in this never-before-collected trio of stories.In "Christmas Even," the case of a burglar killed in mid-heist leads Bosch to retrace a link to his past. In "Father's Day," Bosch investigates a young boy's seemingly accidental death and confronts his own fears as a father... more

  • The Drop (Harry Bosch #15)
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    The Drop (Harry Bosch #15)

    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 #16)
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    The Black Box (Harry Bosch #16)

    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

  • Switchblade (Harry Bosch #16.5)
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    Switchblade (Harry Bosch #16.5)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2014

    An anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades, the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant. Cold cases are often the toughest: With no body, no murder scene, and no fingerprints, Bosch nevertheless gets lucky when DNA evidence from the murder weapon points to a known killer. But the DA insists that science alone is not enough - he needs the case to be bulletproof before he'll take it to court... more

  • The Burning Room (Harry Bosch #17)
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    The Burning Room (Harry Bosch #17)

    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 #18)
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    The Crossing (Harry Bosch #18)

    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 #19)
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    The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch #19)

    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

  • Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20)
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    Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20)

    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 #21)
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    Dark Sacred Night (Harry Bosch #21)

    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

  • The Night Fire (Harry Bosch #22)
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    The Night Fire (Harry Bosch #22)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings · published 2019

    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 #1 New York Times bestselling 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... more

  • The Dark Hours (Harry Bosch #23)
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    The Dark Hours (Harry Bosch #23)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 2021

    Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly There's chaos in Hollywood on New Year's Eve. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air... more

  • Desert Star (Harry Bosch #24)
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    Desert Star (Harry Bosch #24)

    Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings · published 2022

    LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.  Discover more thrilling Bosch mysteries in the original Freevee series Bosch: Legacy. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape... more

  • The Waiting (Harry Bosch #25)
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    The Waiting (Harry Bosch #25)

    Michael Connelly, Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 2024

    LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter.Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-three, so the genetic link must be familial... more

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