Vote for Your Favorite Harry Bosch Novel

Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton, Laurence Fishburne, and Jonathan Pryce star in the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of All the Old Knives, and author Olen Steinhauer has written the screenplay for the film, directed by Janus Metz. Watch the trailer below! Watch the Official Trailer for All the Old Knives! A new movie tie-in edition of…

Undercover Newshounds: Why Crime Fiction Writers are Like Journalists

By Tessa Wegert

February 19, 2020

Regardless of characters, setting, or storyline, a single word always comes to mind when I read a Michael Connelly novel: authenticity. The details of how Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, and Renée Ballard investigate crimes, identify suspects, and interact with their colleagues always withstand scrutiny. In a recent review of Connelly’s newest book The Night Fire,…

Michael Connelly’s Edgar Award: The Birth of Bosch

By Hector DeJean

October 4, 2019

At the 1993 Edgar Awards banquet, the best first novel award went to a new author named Michael Connelly, whose debut Harry Bosch novel The Black Echo had been published the previous year. The promise of that first book has clearly been fulfilled, with Connelly going on to become one of the most prolific and…

Parlor Games: Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by Innocence

By Lance Charnes

January 4, 2019

A country house, a dead body, a pack of suspects—sounds like Agatha Christie, no? Of course, it does. It’s said that Dame Agatha named 1958’s Ordeal by Innocence as one of her two favorite novels (Crooked House being the other), though she was known to change her answer to that particular question, as would any…