Crime Beat

A definitive collection of true crime, from the #1 bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly was an award-winning journalist before he became one of the leading crime writers of his generation. These true stories help to chart the development of his work as a novelist - guaranteed to make fascinating reading for any serious fan of crime writing.

One morning an editor called me and told me to swing by a murder scene on my way to the office. Just like that, I was picking upa coffee on the way to work. The murder was on Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills. I went as instructed and got the story. I also got the place where I would put the home of the fictional detective [Harry Bosch] I had secretly been writing about ...