Michael Connelly

See also: Connelly

Michael Connelly was born the July 21st 1956. It is one of the principal American writers of detective novels in particular reporting the investigations of its recurring hero Harry Bosch.

Biography

Michael Connelly was born on July 21st, 1956 in Philadelphia. It is graduate University of Florida, where it received a bachelors dismantles in journalism in 1980. He then worked as journalist with Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale (Florida). In 1986, he is the joint author of an article on the survivors of a crash landing of plane which appeared among the finalists for the Prix Pulitzer, which enabled him to become legal chronicler for Los Angeles Times. Its reports on the riots of Los Angeles in 1992 also were noticed and received the Prix Pulitzer (which it divided with other journalists associated with its reports).

It launches out in the career of writer in 1992 with the sewers of Los Angeles , its first whodunnit, where one discovers the recurring character of Harry Bosch, inspector of the LAPD, which will be the hero of the majority of the following novels. It receives for this book the Edgar price of the best first detective novel. He writes approximately a novel thereafter per annum, by obtaining a best-seller regularly. Its novel the poet will receive the price Mystère in 1998 and Créances of blood the Grand Prix of the police literature.

Among the novels not putting in scene Harry Bosch, Créance of blood was adapted to the cinema in 2002 by Clint Eastwood, which incarnates Terry McCaleb there, an ex-agent of FBI. In defense Lincoln , it approaches the procedural novel which enables him to use its last experiment of legal chronicler.

Recurring characters

  • Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch - an inspector of the LAPD which will resign and will put himself on his account before reinstating LAPD in the service of the unsolved businesses (service invented by Michael Connelly, inspired by the service " Cold Puts Homicide").
  • Kizmin “Kiz” To wrinkle - Partner of Bosh to the section Homicide and the unit of the unsolved businesses.
  • Jerry Edgar - Partner of Bosh to Criminal of Hollywood
  • Eleanor Wish - Ex-agent of the FBI and ex-wife of Bosh with which it has a girl (meets in the Sewers of Los Angeles and separation in the Take-off of the angels ).
  • Frankie Sheehan (deceased) - Partner of Bosh to the section Flight of the LAPD.
  • Terrell “Terry” McCaleb (deceased) - Old " profiler" FBI, it takes its retirement after a heart transplant in the small island of Catalina off Los Angeles. It appears in three novels: Credit of blood, the Bird of darkness and Los Angeles To rivet .
  • Rachel Walling - Agent of the FBI (in the Poet , Los Angeles To rivet , Echo Park , The Overlook ).
  • Mickey To haul - Defense counsel in criminal cases and half-brother of Bosh.
  • Roy Lindell - Agent of the FBI
  • Irvin Irving - Chief of the LAPD
  • John Chastain (Deceased) - LAPD IAD Detective
  • Harvey “Ninety-Eight” Pounds (Deceased) - Former superior of Bosh (he was assassinated by people which thought of being caught some in Bosh, Bosh having borrowed his name in an investigation).
  • Grace Tickets - Lieutenant, superior of Bosh before it returns to the Homicide section.
  • Janis Langwiser - Defense counsel.
  • McEvoy Jack - Journalist with the New Times (it inquired into the death of his/her brother by a serial killer which was made call " the poète").

Work

The list comprises the English publication date and the date of first publication in French

Harry Bosch

* Sewers of Los Angeles (1993) (The Black Echo, 1992)
* black Ice (1995) (The Black Ice, 1993)
* the concrete Blonde (1996) (The Concrete Blonde, 1994)
* the Last coyote (1999) (The Last Coyote, 1995)
* the Corpse in Rolls (1998) (Trunk Music, 1996)
* the Take-off of the angels (2000) (Angels Flight, 1999)
* the Bird of darkness (2001) (Darkness more than Night has, 2001): cross-country race-over between Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch
* Wonderland avenue (2002) (City off Bones, 2002)
* dead Light (2003) (Lost Light, 2003)
* Los Angeles To rivet (2004) (The Narrows, 2004): the last meeting between Bosch and McCaleb.
* prohibited Mourning (2005) (The Closers, 2005)
* Echo Park (May 2007 in France) (Park Echo, September 2006)
* The Overlook (May 2007 in the United States)

Terry McCaleb

* Credit of blood (1999) (Blood Work, 1998)
* the Bird of darkness (2001) (Darkness more than Night has, 2001): cross-country race-over between Terry McCaleb and Harry Bosch

Sean McEvoy

* the Poet (1997) (The Poet, 1996)

Michael To haul

* Defense Lincoln (2006) (The Lincoln Lawyer, 2005)

Other novels:

* the Moon was black (2000) (Void Moon, 2000)
* Darling Lilly (2003) (Chasing the Dime, 2002)

Other books:

* Chronic of the crime (2006) (Happy Crime: At Decade Off Covering Cops And Killers, 2006)

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of Michael Connelly
  • nonofficial French Site on Michael Connelly
  • Site of English fans
  • Michael Connelly: writer of whodunnits
  • Comments on the novels of Michael Connelly

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