History Creator / MichaelConnelly

** ''Liteature/{{Suicide Run|2011}}'' - Short story collection featuring Harry Bosch and Terry [=McCaleb=]("Suicide Run", "Cielo Azul", "One Dollar Jackpot")

** ''Liteature/SuicideRun'' - Short story collection featuring Harry Bosch and Terry [=McCaleb=]("Suicide Run", "Cielo Azul", "One Dollar Jackpot")

** ''Suicide Run'' - Short story collection featuring Harry Bosch and Terry [=McCaleb=]("Suicide Run", "Cielo Azul", "One Dollar Jackpot")

** By and large if someone can live and/or work in an unusual place, they will (Bosch lives in a cantilever house in the canyon, Mickey Haller works out of his Lincoln, etc.)

** ''Angle of Investigation'' - Short story collection featuring Harry Bosch ("Christmas Even", "Father's Day", "Angle of Investigation")

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** There are a lot of references to Mulholland Drive and the scenic overlook on Mulholland Drive. Start with ''The Overlook'' and the body that's found there at the start of the story, then short story "Muholland Dive", then ''Trunk Music'' as that's where Tony Aliso is killed, then ''The Reversal'' as Jason Jessup goes there on his late-night cruises...

** As all Connelly novels are in the same universe, this series is full of them. They go at least as far back as the third novel, ''The Concrete Blonde'', in which Harry remembers back when he had to read over the entire Vietnam Veterans Memorial as part of his investigation in ''The Black Echo''.

* CowboyCop: Harry Bosch in every damn novel, bending the rules and hiding stuff from his partners and his bosses, but always getting the job done. One of the central dynamics of a Bosch novel is whether his supervisor will be DaChief who wants to kick Harry out of the police force, or a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who gives Harry room to operate.

** One of the longest-range continuity nods so far is in ''The Wrong Side of Goodbye'', where Harry tells is daughter that he no longer eats Vietnamese food, a fact first established in ''The Black Echo''.

** One of the more amusing ones is the crazy number of people who die either while saying or shortly after saying "Fuck you" to a main character

* TheInternetIsForPorn: ''Chasing the Dime'', in which software designer Henry Pierce gets fixated on an Internet call girl and winds up in a lot of trouble.

* {{Nanomachines}}: This is what Henry Pierce is trying to make in ''Chasing the Dime''.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: In ''Chasing the Dime'', Henry finally finds the prostitute he's been trying to track down, literally stuffed into a fridge. It's an effort to frame him for murder.

** This gets a bit of a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] hung on it in ''Literature/ThePoet'', where the main character, a [[ActorSharedBackground crime reporter]] mentions that cops always have nicknames for each other.

* CreatorThumbprint. Connelly has some favorite things that he manages to use over and over. Jeep Cherokees are immensely popular in his 'verse, and by and large if someone can live and/or work in an unusual place, they will (Bosch lives in a cantilever house in the canyon, Mickey Haller works out of his Lincoln, etc.). There are lots of restaurants in L.A., but Du-Pars and Musso & Frank come up an awful lot. One of the more amusing ones is the crazy number of people who die either while saying or shortly after saying "Fuck you" to a main character.

* CreatorThumbprint. Connelly has some favorite things that he manages to use over and over. Jeep Cherokees are immensely popular in his 'verse, and by and large if someone can live and/or work in an unusual place, they will (Bosch lives in a cantilever house in the canyon, Mickey Haller works out of his Lincoln, etc.). One of the more amusing ones is the crazy number of people who die either while saying or shortly after saying "Fuck you" to a main character.

* ''Literature/DarkSacredNight'' (2018)(Bosch #21)(featuring Renee Ballard)

* ''Literature/ADarknessMoreThanNight'' (2001)(Bosch #7)([=McCaleb=] #2)(featuring Jack [=McEvoy=].

* ''Literature/ADarknessMoreThanNight'' (2001)(Bosch #7)([=McCaleb=] #2). also featuring Jack [=McEvoy=].

** As all Connelly novels are in the same universe, this series is full of them. They go at least as far back as the second novel, ''The Concrete Blonde'', in which Harry remembers back when he had to read over the entire Vietnam Veterans Memorial as part of his investigation in ''The Black Echo''.

** As all the Bosch novels are in the same universe, this series is full of them. They go at least as far back as the second novel, ''The Concrete Blonde'', in which Harry remembers back when he had to read over the entire Vietnam Veterans Memorial as part of his investigation in ''The Black Echo''.

* CallBack: Connelly's novels, especially the Harry Bosch series, never shy away from references to past events without ever falling into ContinuityLockout territory.
** One of the longest-range {{CallBack}}s so far is in ''The Wrong Side of Goodbye'', where Harry tells is daughter that he no longer eats Vietnamese food, a fact first established in ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''.

* ContinuityNod: ''Chasing the Dime'' could have been a stand-alone novel, with its protagonist Henry Pierce being a computer software entrepreneur who does not pop up in any other Connelly book. But just to make clear that it was in the same universe, Connelly makes Pierce's dead sister a victim of The Dollmaker (a serial killer that Harry Bosch investigated and killed), and takes the prosecuting attorney from ''Angels Flight'' and makes her Pierce's lawyer.

Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. His books, which have been translated into 35 languages, have garnered him every major award in his genre, such as the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Award, Los Angeles Times Best Mystery/Thriller Award, etc. Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004.

Connelly's second most-used protagonist is ethically dubious defense lawyer Literature/MickeyHaller, who has appeared as the protagonist in five Connelly novels. Other POV characters besides Harry Bosch include Los Angeles Times crime reporter Jack [=McEvoy=] and FBI profiler Terry [=McCaleb=]. Characters in one series pop up in other series quite frequently, as shown below. All of his books are partly or wholly set in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, to the extent that the series as a whole is a pretty good guided tour of the city.

!!Books published by Michael Connelly (in chronological order, arranged by main character):
* The Literature/HarryBosch Novels[[index]]
** ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''
** ''Literature/TheBlackIce''
** ''Literature/TheConcreteBlonde''
** ''Literature/TheLastCoyote''
** ''Literature/TrunkMusic''
** ''Literature/AngelsFlight''
** ''Literature/ADarknessMoreThanNight'' - Co-starring Terry [=McCaleb=], also featuring Rachel Walling and Jack [=McEvoy=].
** ''[[Literature/CityOfBones2002 City of Bones]]''
** ''Literature/LostLight''
** ''Literature/TheNarrows'' - Also features Rachel Walling, Terry [=McCaleb=] ([[PosthumousCharacter sort of]]) and Cassie Black.
** ''Literature/TheClosers''
** ''Literature/EchoPark'' - Also features Rachel Walling. A serial killer featured in this book was described as a former client of Mickey Haller.
** ''Literature/TheOverlook'' - Also features Rachel Walling.
** ''Literature/NineDragons'' - Also features Mickey Haller.
** ''Literature/TheDrop''
** ''Literature/TheBlackBox''
** ''Literature/TheBurningRoom''
** ''[[Literature/TheCrossing2015 The Crossing]]'' - Also features Mickey Haller.
** ''Literature/TheWrongSideOfGoodbye'' - Also features Mickey Haller.
** ''Literature/TwoKindsOfTruth'' - Also features Mickey Haller.

* The Literature/MickeyHaller novels[[index]]
** ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer''
** ''Literature/TheBrassVerdict'' - Also features Harry Bosch, with a cameo by Jack [=McEvoy=].
** ''Literature/TheReversal'' - Co-starring Harry Bosch
** ''Literature/TheFifthWitness''- With a cameo by Harry Bosch
** ''Literature/TheGodsOfGuilt'' - With a cameo by Harry Bosch

* Other Novels
** ''Literature/ThePoet'' - Features Rachel Walling and Jack [=McEvoy=].
** ''Literature/BloodWork'' - Features Terry [=McCaleb=].
** ''Literature/VoidMoon'' - Features Cassie Black.
** ''Chasing The Dime'' - Features Henry Pierce.
** ''Literature/TheScarecrow'' - Features Rachel Walling and Jack [=McEvoy=].
** ''Literature/TheLateShow'' - Features Renee Ballard
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* ''Suicide Run'' - Short story collection featuring Harry Bosch and Terry [=McCaleb=]("Suicide Run", "Cielo Azul", "One Dollar Jackpot")
* ''Angle of Investigation'' - Short story collection featuring Harry Bosch ("Christmas Even", "Father's Day", "Angle of Investigation")
* ''Mulholland Dive'' - Short story collection ("Cahoots", "Mulholland Dive", "Two Bagger")

* ''Suicide Run'' - Short story collection featuring Harry Bosch ("Suicide Run", "Cielo Azul", "One Dollar Jackpot")

** ''Literature/TheNarrows'' - Also features Rachel Walling, Terry [=McCaleb=] and Cassie Black.

** In the Connelly universe, TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Literature/BloodWork'' is BasedOnATrueStory--Creator/ClintEastwood attends Terry's funeral, and Buddy complains about how he is portrayed in the ''Blood Work'' movie.

His style does not usually involve researching for his books; he says that he prefers to just write, focusing more on his characters than the surroundings. His books often reflect on events happening in the world, like the 9/11 bombings and the beating of Rodney King. Most of the events in Harry Bosch's life in his novels are loosely based on events he himself was witnessing or undergoing.