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** All of the Jack [=McEvoy=] novels have downer beginnings. In ''The Poet'', Jack's twin brother Sean has killed himself. In ''The Scarecrow'', his literary career has stalled out after ''The Poet'' was a best-seller, and he's gotten laid off from the newspaper. In ''Fair Warning'', his literary career has stalled out again after ''The Scarecrow'' was a best-seller, and the website he's writing for is pretty shaky, ''and'' he's broken up with Rachel Walling.
** ''The Gods of Guilt'' opens by revealing Haller's campaign for DA was blown up after some guy that he got off a DUI rap went drunk driving again and killed someone. That same incident has also led to his estrangement from his ex-wife and daughter.
** All of the Jack [=McEvoy=] novels have downer beginnings. In ''The Poet'', Jack's twin brother Sean has killed himself. In ''The Scarecrow'', his literary career has stalled out after ''The Poet'' was a best-seller, and he's gotten laid off from the newspaper. In ''Fair Warning'', his literary career has stalled out again after ''The Scarecrow'' was a best-seller, and the website he's writing for is pretty shaky, ''and'' he's broken up with Rachel Walling.
** ''The Gods of Guilt'' opens by revealing Haller's campaign for DA was blown up after some guy that he got off a DUI rap went drunk driving again and killed someone. That same incident has also led to his estrangement from his ex-wife and daughter.
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Averted in the earlier Connelly novels, but starting with ''The Drop'', increasingly true of later works. ''The Drop'', ''The Burning Room'', ''The Wrong Side of Goodbye'', ''The Late Show'', and ''Two Kinds of Truth'' all have two or more mystery plot threads which don't intersect.
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** ''Literature/TheLateShow'' establishes that the Amazon Prime series ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' is loosely based on Harry Bosch's cases.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Averted in the earlier Connelly novels, but starting with ''The Drop'', increasingly true of later works. ''The Drop'', ''The Burning Room'', ''The Wrong Side of Goodbye'', ''The Late Show'',and ''Two Kinds of Truth'' Truth'', ''Dark Sacred Night'', and ''The Night Fire'' all have two or more mystery plot threads which don't intersect.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Averted in the earlier Connelly novels, but starting with ''The Drop'', increasingly true of later works. ''The Drop'', ''The Burning Room'', ''The Wrong Side of Goodbye'', ''The Late Show'',
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* ''Literature/TheLawOfInnocence'' (2020)(Haller #6)
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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...the FBI safehouse where the climax of ''The Poet'' takes place is located there. Mickey Haller has a confrontation with a bad guy at the Fryman Canyon overlook on Mulholland in ''Literature/TheBrassVerdict''.
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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...the FBI safehouse where the climax of ''The Poet'' takes place is located there. Mickey Haller has a confrontation with a bad guy at the Fryman Canyon overlook on Mulholland in ''Literature/TheBrassVerdict''. In ''Lost Light'' Roy Lindell and Harry stop at a Mulholland overlook to have a clandestine meeting about the Marty Gessler case.
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* ''Literature/FairWarning'' (2020) ([=McEvoy=] #3)
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Detective Renee Ballard for Detective Harry Bosch. The Harry Bosch [[TheVerse universe]] has characters aging in real time, which means that by the 2010s Harry Bosch, born in 1950, started to get too old for homicide detective adventures. How to fix that? Come up with Detective Ballard, who was orphaned at a young age like Harry Bosch (technically Ballard wasn't an orphan but she had a MissingMom), has a lack of personal attachments like Bosch, views her job as a "mission" in the way that Bosch does, is a CowboyCop just like Bosch, has a SherlockScan similar to Bosch's, has an oddball habit like Bosch (Bosch is intensely devoted to jazz music while Ballard is a surfer) and like Bosch has a difficult relationship with LAPD command (Bosch because he's a CowboyCop in general, Ballard because she made a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor).
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* ''Literature/{{The Drop|2011}}'' (2011)(Bosch #15)
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* ''Literature/{{The Drop|2011}}'' ''Literature/TheDrop'' (2011)(Bosch #15)
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** Fictional film company Archway Studios is mentioned in many Connelly novels, starting with ''Literature/TrunkMusic''. In short story "The Crooked Man" Harry Bosch investigates the murder of Archway's CEO.
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** Fictional film company Archway Studios is mentioned in many Connelly novels, starting with ''Literature/TrunkMusic''. In short story "The Crooked Man" Harry Bosch investigates the murder of Archway's CEO.[[note]]"Archway Studios" is actually a subtle shout-out to a St. Louis-based blues music company of that name, from blues fan Michael Connelly.[[/note]]
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** Harry Bosch short stories: "Switchblade", "Red Eye", "A Fine Mist of Blood", "Nighthawks", "Blood Washes Off", "Blue on Black"
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** Harry Bosch short stories: "Switchblade", "Red Eye", "A Fine Mist of Blood", "Nighthawks", "Blood Washes Off", "Blue on Black"Black", "The Crooked Man"
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* BookcasePassage: In short story "Blood Washes Off" the murder weapon (a fireplace poker) is hidden inside a storage closet which is located behind a spring-loaded trick bookcase.
* BookcasePassage: In short story "Blood Washes Off" the murder weapon (a fireplace poker) is hidden inside a storage closet which is located behind a spring-loaded trick bookcase.
** Fictional film company Archway Studios is mentioned in many Connelly novels, starting with ''Literature/TrunkMusic''. In short story "The Crooked Man" Harry Bosch investigates the murder of Archway's CEO.
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* InTheStyleOf: Short story "The Safe Man" is a ghost story that deliberately invokes the style of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.
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* InTheStyleOf: InTheStyleOf:
** Short story "The Safe Man" is a ghost story that deliberately invokes the style ofCreator/EdgarAllanPoe.Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.
** Short story "The Crooked Man" is written in the style of Creator/ArthurConanDoyle and his Literature/SherlockHolmes stories. Bosch works with a deputy coroner named "Art Doyle" who has one hell of a SherlockScan and says things like "Elementary" and "The game is afoot."
** Short story "The Safe Man" is a ghost story that deliberately invokes the style of
** Short story "The Crooked Man" is written in the style of Creator/ArthurConanDoyle and his Literature/SherlockHolmes stories. Bosch works with a deputy coroner named "Art Doyle" who has one hell of a SherlockScan and says things like "Elementary" and "The game is afoot."
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* {{Ponzi}}: The backstory to short story "A Fine Mist of Blood" explains that murder victim Roy [=McIntyre=] was facing trial for running a Ponzi scheme and stealing when he got shot through the head.
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* {{Ponzi}}: {{Ponzi}}:
** The backstory to short story "A Fine Mist of Blood" explains that murder victim Roy [=McIntyre=] was facing trial for running a Ponzi scheme and stealing when he got shot through thehead.head.
** Short story "Blood Washes Off" involves a murder victim who was running a Ponzi scheme involving gold futures (he had taken $190 million of payments when he only had $30 million in gold).
** The backstory to short story "A Fine Mist of Blood" explains that murder victim Roy [=McIntyre=] was facing trial for running a Ponzi scheme and stealing when he got shot through the
** Short story "Blood Washes Off" involves a murder victim who was running a Ponzi scheme involving gold futures (he had taken $190 million of payments when he only had $30 million in gold).
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* RealPersonCameo: RealLife LAPD detectives Rick Jackson and Tim Marcia and real-life lawyer Dan Daly pop up from time to time as characters in Connelly books.
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* RealPersonCameo: RealLife LAPD detectives Rick Jackson and Tim Marcia and real-life lawyer lawyers Dan Daly and Roger Mills pop up from time to time as minor characters in Connelly books.books.
* RealTime: "Blood Washes Off" is a short story that consists in its entirety of a transcript of a Harry Bosch interview of a murder suspect.
* SherlockScan: Short story "The Crooked Man" is an homage to Literature/SherlockHolmes. Harry, who has a pretty good SherlockScan himself, meets a deputy coroner who is able to tell Harry has a girlfriend by his socks and who is able to tell the dead guy drank a particular brand of alcohol by the smell of the air expelled from his lungs.
* RealTime: "Blood Washes Off" is a short story that consists in its entirety of a transcript of a Harry Bosch interview of a murder suspect.
* SherlockScan: Short story "The Crooked Man" is an homage to Literature/SherlockHolmes. Harry, who has a pretty good SherlockScan himself, meets a deputy coroner who is able to tell Harry has a girlfriend by his socks and who is able to tell the dead guy drank a particular brand of alcohol by the smell of the air expelled from his lungs.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Short story "Blood Washes Off" consists in its entirety of a transcript of Harry Bosch's interview with a suspect.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Short story "Nighthawks" has Harry surveilling a woman who goes to a museum in Chicago to visit the painting "Nighthawks". She tells him that she's a writer who uses the painting for inspiration. This is obviously true of Connelly himself.
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* NighthawksShot: Many references to the painting "Nighthawks" and the theme of loners in the night, starting with ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' where Eleanor Wish has a "Nighthawks" print. In a Connelly short story appropriately called "Nighthawks", a surveillance takes Harry Bosch to the museum in Chicago where the painting hangs, and he regards it.
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* FeelingTheirAge: A theme in the later Harry Bosch novels, as Harry keeps running around chasing bad guys even as he ages into his sixties; there are comments about creaky knees and sore hips and how his eyes don't adjust to the dark nearly as quickly as they did when he was younger.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: All of Connelly's novels take place within the same fictional universe.[[note]]This does not apply to his short stories, some of which are not connected to the Harry Bosch universe.[[/note]] Note the many character crossovers in the bibliography above; even minor characters pop up in multiple novels.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: All of Connelly's novels take place within the same fictional universe.[[note]]This does not apply to his short stories, some of which There are not connected to the Harry Bosch universe.[[/note]] Note the many, many character crossovers in the bibliography above; crossovers; even minor characters pop up in multiple novels.
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* TheVerse: The Harry Bosch universe, in which every single Connelly book takes place.[[note]]This does not apply to his short stories. "The Safe Man", "Cahoots", and "The Third Panel" have no overt connection to the Bosch universe--but since "The Third Panel" is about a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it has at least a spiritual connection.[[/note]]
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** In ''The Brass Verdict'', one of the cases Mickey Haller inherits upon the death of Jerry Vincent is that of a woman who was charged with indecent exposure for skinnydipping in a lake. Connelly later wrote about that case in short story "The Perfect Triangle".
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* {{Skinnydipping}}: Short story "The Perfect Triangle" involves Mickey Haller handling the case of a woman who was arrested for skinnydipping in the ocean.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: Zig-zagged in-universe; ''Film/BloodWork'', ''Film/TheLincolnLawyer'' and ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' are revealed to be nonfiction projects in ''Literature/AngelsFlight'', ''Literature/TheWrongSideOfGoodbye'' and ''Literature/TheLateShow'' respectively.
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The films ''Film/BloodWork'' and ''Film/TheLincolnLawyer'' are based on his novels.
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The films ''Film/BloodWork'' and ''Film/TheLincolnLawyer'' ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' are based on his novels.
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** In short story "Red Eye" Harry gets a panic attack in Boston when he has to drive through a tunnel as he leaves the airport, thinking about the tunnels in "his past and his dreams". This is an allusion to Harry's time spent as a "tunnel rat" in Vietnam.
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** There are ''lots'' of restaurants in L.A., but Du-Pars and Musso & Frank come up an awful lot
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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...the FBI safehouse where the climax of ''The Poet'' takes place is located there.
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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...the FBI safehouse where the climax of ''The Poet'' takes place is located there. Mickey Haller has a confrontation with a bad guy at the Fryman Canyon overlook on Mulholland in ''Literature/TheBrassVerdict''.
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* DangerTakesABackSeat: In "Burnt Matches" Mickey Haller gets into the back seat of his Lincoln and finds a bad guy sitting on the other side with a gun.
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* {{Ponzi}}: The backstory to short story "A Fine Mist of Blood" explains that murder victim Roy [=McIntyre=] was facing trial for running a Ponzi scheme and stealing when he got shot through the head.
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* VigilanteExecution: Short story "The Third Panel" centers around a vigilante group by that name that is going around murdering gangsters and drug dealers and meth cooks.
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* VigilanteExecution: VigilanteExecution:
** Short story "The Third Panel" centers around a vigilante group by that name that is going around murdering gangsters and drug dealers and methcooks.cooks.
** In short story "A Fine Mist of Blood" computer cross-referencing soon comes up with one woman as a witness involved in two different murder cases. Harry soon realizes that she is a vigilante killing bad guys.
** Short story "The Third Panel" centers around a vigilante group by that name that is going around murdering gangsters and drug dealers and meth
** In short story "A Fine Mist of Blood" computer cross-referencing soon comes up with one woman as a witness involved in two different murder cases. Harry soon realizes that she is a vigilante killing bad guys.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In short story "Mulholland Dive", a bad guy kills his target by letting loose a coyote that causes the target to veer right off Mullholland Drive. As he's driving away from the scene, the bad guy sees a coyote on Mulholland Drive and goes veering off the cliff.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: FunWithAcronyms: In short story "Mulholland Dive", "A Fine Mist Of Blood", Harry Bosch gets a bad guy kills his target by letting loose a coyote that causes the target to veer right off Mullholland Drive. As he's driving away phone call from the scene, Data Evaluations and Theory squad...the bad guy sees a coyote on Mulholland Drive and goes veering off the cliff.DEATH squad.
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** As all Connelly novels are in the same universe, this series is full of them. They go all the way back to the second novel ''The Black Ice'', in which Harry gets a Christmas card from Tehachapi prison--that's where Eleanor Wish is serving time due to the crimes she committed in the first novel, ''The Black Echo''.
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** As all Connelly novels are in the same universe, this series is full of them. They go all the way back to the second novel ''The Black Ice'', in which Harry gets a Christmas card from Tehachapi prison--that's where Eleanor Wish is serving time due to the crimes she committed in the first novel, ''The Black Echo''. Every single novel after the first has at least one continuity nod to previous novels.
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* ''Literature/TheNightFire'' (2019) (Bosch #22) (Ballard #3)
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** ''Mulholland Dive'' - Short story collection ("Cahoots", "Mulholland Dive", "Two Bagger")
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** ''Mulholland Dive'' ''Literature/MulhollandDive'' - Short story collection ("Cahoots", "Mulholland Dive", "Two Bagger")
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** Harry Bosch short stories: "Switchblade", "Red Eye", "A Fine Mist of Blood" (all featuring Harry Bosch), Blood", "Nighthawks", "Blood Washes Off", "Blue on Black"
** Mickey Haller short stories: "Burnt Matches", "The Perfect Triangle"
** Other short stories: "The SafeMan"
Man", "The Third Panel", "Short Cut" (for children aged 9-12), "After Midnight"
** Mickey Haller short stories: "Burnt Matches", "The Perfect Triangle"
** Other short stories: "The Safe
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* CallForward: Short story "Cahoots", being set in 1932, included this exchange.
-->“Where do you want to go?”\\
“Las Vegas.”\\
“Where the hell is that?”\\
“Nevada.”\\
“There’s nothing there but sand.”
-->“Where do you want to go?”\\
“Las Vegas.”\\
“Where the hell is that?”\\
“Nevada.”\\
“There’s nothing there but sand.”
