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Michael Connelly’s iconic detective, Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch has become something of an institution over the last thirty years, graduating from the page into two successful television series starring Titus Welliver. Connelly’s other creation, Mickey Haller (aka The Lincoln Lawyer) has also courted success with a movie starring Matthew McConaughey...
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Charlie Parker is hired by an up-and-coming sculptor Zetta Nadeau to find why her boyfriend, Wyatt Riggins, has apparently vanished. Parker is initially skeptical that the man wants to be found and Riggins’ ex-military history and his ties to the lucrative (and partially legal) cannabis trade in the state...
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When still a young boy, Dan Garvie, narrowly avoided the clutches of a notorious serial killer, but ever since he’s quietly wondered if his actions on the day doomed another child. However, the notorious ‘Pied Piper’ is now long dead and Dan is a grown man and a successful...
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Those awaiting more dark and twisted tales of troubled detective Charlie Parker will have to wait until 2025 (and the forthcoming novel The Children of Eve) but in the meantime author John Connolly brings together an anthology of the bizarre and strange and an additional essay in Night and...
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When Renée Ballard’s police ID and badge are stolen while she’s out surfing, it’s just the start of a tsunami of complications that will affect her and her team at the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit. As she tries to pursue answers to that particular problem – with the help of...
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A woman named Colleen Clark is arrested after an investigation into her son’s disappearance uncovers a bloodied blanket in her car. Did she kill infant Henry Clark? Subsequent news reports have started to turn her neighbours against her, her husband has moved out of the home and seems likely...
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Harry Bosch may have left the police, but his life’s mission hasn’t changed. He still wants to see justice done… because, as his mantra goes: ‘everyone counts or nobody counts‘. Working with (or for) Mickey Haller wouldn’t be his first choice, but his half-brother, the ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ has promised...
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With Renée Ballard now heading up a newly-formed cold-case unit – a result of being able to choose her next position (after events in The Dark Hours) – she assembles her team of experts, almost all of them having had police positions at some point but are now private...
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The innate problem with creating an anthology of stories around the Predator race is that the franchise itself has mostly had one story to tell, hunter/hunted, which it has sought to do over and over again to varying degrees of success. The film franchise (that began with the famous...