Let’s Meet …

…Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly’s Biography

Michael Connelly was born in Philadelphia, PA on July 21, 1956. He moved to Florida with his family when he was 12 years old. Michael 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.
Michael is the bestselling author of thirty-nine novels and one work of non-fiction. With over eighty-five million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly’s 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent New York Times bestsellers include Resurrection Walk, Desert Star, The Dark Hours, The Law Of Innocence, The Night Fire, and Dark Sacred Night. Michael’s crime fiction career was honored with the Diamond Dagger from the CWA in 2018, and the Outstanding Contribution To Crime Writing Award at the 2022 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, England, and the Grand Master title from the Mystery Writers of America in 2023.
Michael is the executive producer of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, two Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. These both stream on Prime Video and Amazon Freevee. He is the executive producer of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix, starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller. He is the creator and host of the podcasts Murder Book and The Wonderland Murders & The Secret History Of Hollywood. He is the executive producer of the documentary films, Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story and Tales of the American. He spends his time in California and Florida.

Harry Bosch
1. The Black Echo (1992)
2. The Black Ice (1993)
3. The Concrete Blonde (1994)
4. The Last Coyote (1995)
5. Trunk Music (1997)
6. Angels Flight (1998)
7. A Darkness More Than Night (2000)
8. City Of Bones (2002)
9. Lost Light (2003)
10. The Narrows (2004)
11. The Closers (2005)
12. Echo Park (2006)
13. The Overlook (2007)
14. Nine Dragons (2009)
14.5. Suicide Run (2011)
15. The Drop (2011)
15.5. Angle of Investigation (2011)
16. The Black Box (2012)
16.5. Switchblade (2014)
17. The Burning Room (2014)
18. The Crossing (2015)
19. The Wrong Side of Goodbye (2016)
19.5. Blue on Black (2016)
20. Two Kinds of Truth (2017)
21. Dark Sacred Night (2018)
22. The Night Fire (2019)
23. The Dark Hours (2021)
Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile (2022)
24. Desert Star (2022)
25. The Waiting (2024)

Jack McEvoy
1. The Poet (1996)
2. The Scarecrow (2009)
3. Fair Warning (2020)

Terry McCaleb
1. Blood Work (1998)
2. A Darkness More Than Night (2000)

Lincoln Lawyer
1. The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)
2. The Brass Verdict (2008)
3. The Reversal (2010)
4. The Fifth Witness (2011)
5. The Gods of Guilt (2013)
5.5. The Crossing (2015)
6. The Law of Innocence (2020)
The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile (2022)
7. Resurrection Walk (2023)
8. The Proving Ground (2025)

Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch
1. The Late Show (2017)
2. Dark Sacred Night (2018)
3. The Night Fire (2019)
4. The Dark Hours (2021)
5. Desert Star (2022)
6. The Waiting (2024)

Detective Stilwell
1. Nightshade (2025)

Novels
Void Moon (1999)
Chasing The Dime (2002)

Collections
Mulholland Dive (2012)

Novellas and Short Stories
Two Bagger (2007)
The Safe Man (2012)
Red Eye (2014) (with Dennis Lehane)

Anthologies edited
Murder in Vegas (2005)
In the Shadow of the Master (2008)

Series contributed to
Best American Mystery Stories
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Mystery Stories 4 (2004) (with Otto Penzler)

Mystery Writers of America Presents
The Blue Religion (2008)

Mysterious Profiles
Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile (2022)
The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile (2022)

Thanks for this, he is very prolific!

Thanks, Eadie, 🙂.

>3 Andrew-theQM: >4 Sergeirocks: You’re welcome!

Thank you, Eadie.

>6 Carol420: You’re welcome!

Thanks Eadie! He has an interesting history! I’ll need to see the Clint Eastwood movie after I’ve read this book.

>8 bluebird_: Didn’t know about the movie! That’s interesting! Thanks for the info! I will check it out!

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