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Michael Connelly is the author of The New York Times bestselling Harry Bosch series, comprised of The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blond, The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight, A Darkness More Than Night, and City of Bones. He is also the author of The Poet, Blood Work, and Void Moon. Blood Work is coming soon to a theater near you. His official website is http://www.michaelconnelly.com.
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City of Bones
On New Year's Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone --- a bone that the dog's owner, a doctor, feels certain is a human bone.Bosch investigates, and that chance discovery leads him to a shallow grave in the Hollywood hills, evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but it stirs up Bosch's memories of his own childhood as an orphan in the city. He can't let it go. Digging through police reports and hospital records, tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence --- and a trail, ever more tenuous, into a violent, terrifying world.
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Michael Connelly's Summer Reading List
Jolie Blon's Bounce
by James Lee Burke
The first book I will read on summer vacation is James Lee Burke's new one, Jolie Blon's Bounce. I haven't missed a Dave Robichieux novel yet and I'm not going to start now. Burke is so beautifully elegiac in his prose that reading one of his books is like going to your favorite class at school. You wish the semester would never end.
Close to Shore
by Michael Capuzzo
I also want to reread Close To Shore by Michael Capuzzo. I read this nonfiction book in galleys a couple years ago and it blew me away. Not only is it a thrilling summer shark story but it is a meticulous recreation of another time and place.
The Walkaway
by Scott Phillips
I am also looking forward to Scott Phillips' book The Walkaway which will be the follow up to The Ice Harvest, probably the best debut I've come across in a long time. Like the other books mentioned here, Phillips has that ability to completely transport the reader into a seamless new world. That's what I look for.
The Final Country
by James Crumley
A few other books I also plan to go to school on this summer are The Final Country by James Crumley, Put A Lid On It by Donald E. Westlake and Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid. These writers are modern masters of the crime novel. I have a great summer ahead of me.
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