The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
It's about being fair. It's about Black Lives Matter. Yes, they matter. Everybody counts or nobody counts, and I think if more cops had… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Someone’s coming.” Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“There is no end of things in the heart. Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Are you okay?” he asked. “I’m fine, yeah,” she said. She wiped tears off her cheeks. “Somebody who totally fucked me over died today,”… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the hill, after Boston College, the route passes St. Ignatius Church on the right. It was here that textile worker… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“He said no. He said, in very fine English, ‘I buy, I don’t sell.’ Then he escorted me out. But I think that was… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The paying jobs were few and she was often taken advantage of by the leeches who were part of the entertainment industry. But she… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It’s… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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