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Welcome to the official Australian and New Zealand website of international bestselling author, Michael Connelly.

A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of the acclaimed Harry Bosch series and several stand-alone bestsellers, as well as Crime Beat, a volume of non-fiction.

Coming in October 2010 - The Reversal

Michael's next novel The Reversal sees Mickey Haller (from The Lincoln Lawyer and The Brass Verdict) teaming up with Detective Harry Bosch.

Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change sides and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years. With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.

Read an excerpt from The Reversal

The Reversal is Publishing Weekly's Pick of the Week (25 August)

"In Connelly's engaging second thriller to team defense attorney Mickey Haller and LAPD detective Harry Bosch (after The Brass Verdict), new DNA evidence leads to the release of Jason Jessup, who was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Melissa Landy 24 years earlier. Prosecutors in the L.A. DA's office, faced with retrying Jessup, approach Haller for help. Haller agrees to assist if he can use Bosch as his investigator, and his lawyer ex-wife, Maggie McPherson, as "second chair" at the new trial. Bosch begins reconstructing the 1986 case and tracking down witnesses, including Landy's older sister, who identified Jessup as the man who abducted her sister. Not used to being under the watchful eye of the DA's office, Haller must stay one step ahead of Jessup's oily defense attorney and Jessup himself, whose years in prison have only fueled his hatred of the legal system. Sparks inevitably fly when the equally stubborn Haller and Bosch must work toward a common goal. (Oct)."

The Lincoln Lawyer film is now in production!

Filming has begun in Los Angeles on the movie adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller, and Marisa Tomei as Maggie McPherson, with Brad Furman directing from a screenplay by John Romano. Co-starring Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, John Leguizamo, Michael Pena, Trace Adkins, and Katherine Moennig.

Production information on imdb.com