検索キーワード： 著者 "Michael Connelly" すべてのカテゴリー

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.

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch tackles three tough cases that span a legendary career in this never-before-collected trio of stories. Utterly unputdownable, they are proof that "Connelly never stops doling out the suspense.... Once it grabs you in those first few pages, it won't let go of you" ( Boston Globe).

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? Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics....

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it's a setup. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch takes the case. With the secret help of his former LAPD partner, Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself a target.

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.

È il suo processo più importante: quello in cui l'imputato è lui. Ma in un'aula di tribunale anche l'innocenza può essere un crimine. È una sera di ottobre a Los Angeles, e Mickey Haller, a bordo della sua Lincoln, si allontana dal bar dove ha offerto da bere a un nutrito gruppo di colleghi per festeggiare la vittoria in un processo. Quando una volante della polizia gli fa segno di accostare, Haller è tranquillo: lui non ha bevuto neanche un goccio, come ormai da molti anni. Ma non è per questo che l'agente Milton l'ha fermato.

È difficile arrendersi al fatto che il tempo dell'azione, delle responsabilità, della vita attiva sia finito. Soprattutto per un uomo come Harry Bosch, che ha sempre considerato il lavoro una missione. E ora che davanti a sé ha solo tre anni prima della pensione, il suo attaccamento si fa ancora più intenso, tanto da fargli vivere con ansia i giorni che precedono il momento in cui, nell'unità a cui appartiene, vengono assegnati i casi. E questa volta, di casi, gliene vengono affidati ben due.

"Per molto tempo, in passato, avevo detto che la morte era il mio mestiere. Adesso sapevo che lo era ancora." Per Jack McEvoy la cronaca nera è stato il mestiere di una vita. Ha raccontato le storie più cupe, inseguito i killer più sfuggenti, fino a ritrovarsi lui stesso faccia a faccia con la morte. Il fiuto da reporter ce l'ha nel sangue, anche se ormai va a caccia di storie di ben altro genere. Ma la morte, a quanto pare, non ha chiuso i conti con lui.

Nella vita ci sono momenti in cui è difficile conciliare attività professionale e vita privata. Harry Bosch si trova in uno di questi momenti. Ha una figlia adolescente di cui occuparsi, una ragazzina per cui è ormai l'unico punto di riferimento, e ha il lavoro, quello che vive da sempre come una missione, che assorbe quasi totalmente i suoi pensieri. E che si fa sempre più pressante ora che Bosch è alle prese con un caso che lo inquieta particolarmente.

Nell'Unità Casi Irrisolti della polizia di Los Angeles non succede spesso di doversi occupare di una vittima morta con dieci anni di ritardo rispetto alle intenzioni dell'omicida. L'uomo era riuscito a resistere tutto quel tempo con un proiettile nella schiena, senza che si potesse individuare chi era stato a tentare di ucciderlo. E ora a Bosch tocca risolvere un caso in cui il cadavere è ancora caldo, ma gli indizi e le eventuali prove si sono dissolti da tempo. Un compito difficile anche per un veterano come lui, ma ancor più per la sua giovane partner, Lucia Soto.

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.

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills - and unearths a murder committed more than 20 years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart - or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar.

Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. Jack investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. Undetected by law enforcement, a vicious killer has been hunting women, using genetic data to select and stalk his targets.

Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. Jack investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. Undetected by law enforcement, a vicious killer has been hunting women, using genetic data to select and stalk his targets.

The Scarecrow: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! 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.

The vision has haunted him for four years: a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the LAPD, Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own.

The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime" - doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions.

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills - and unearths a murder committed more than 20 years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart - or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns.

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.

Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realises he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.