Bosch Behind-the-Scenes Podcast: The Writers

The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Dick Hill
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell.

The Late Show

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Katherine Moennig

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn.

Echo Park (Harry Bosch 12)

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Éric Herson-Macarel

1993 : la jeune Marie Gesto disparaît à la sortie d'un supermarché d'Hollywood. Confiée à l'inspecteur Bosch, l'affaire n'est pas résolue, la victime n'étant jamais retrouvée. Hanté par cet échec, Bosch rouvre sans succès le dossier année après année. Jusqu'en 2006, où le district attorney l'informe qu'un suspect accusé de deux meurtres, dont celui de Marie Gesto, est prêt à passer aux aveux en échange d'un plaider coupable qui lui évitera la mort. Chargé de vérifier que cet individu ne blouse pas la justice, Bosch est très éprouvé par ce qu'il apprend.

The Poet

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Buck Schirner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the story opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work.

Blood Work

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Dick Hill
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terrell McCaleb is enjoying a quiet retirement, renovating the fishing boat he lives on in Los Angeles Harbor. But McCaleb's calm seas turn choppy when a story in the "What Happened To?" column of the LA Times brings him face-to-face with the sister of the woman whose heart now beats in his chest.

Void Moon

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By L. J. Ganser

In L.A., Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run - with a near-psychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job.

Two Bagger

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 4 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Lee Horsley

Baseball! Suspense! Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. He has written 17 books, including 12 featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. "Two Bagger" was his first short story, originally published in 2001 in the anthology Murderer's Row>.

Chasing the Dime

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis

The messages waiting for Henry Pierce when he plugs in his new phone clearly aren't intended for him. They indicate something has gone terribly wrong for a woman named Lilly. Pierce probes, investigates, and then tumbles through a hole, leaving behind a life driven by work to track down and help a woman he's never met. Connelly's latest is "a grabber from the beginning...utterly compelling."

Dark of the Moon

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By John Sandford
• Narrated By Eric Conger
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Virgil Flowers kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He's been doing the hard stuff for three years now, but never anything like this.

The Watchman: An Elvis Cole - Joe Pike Novel, Book 11

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Robert Crais
• Narrated By James Daniels
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out.

As the body count rises, Pike's biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself - unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life...and love.

The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Craig Johnson
• Narrated By George Guidall

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, full of memorable characters.

Open and Shut

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 50 mins)
• By David Rosenfelt
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

Whether dueling with new forensics or the local old boys' network, irreverent defense attorney Andy Carpenter always leaves them awed with his biting wit and winning fourth-quarter game plan. But the fun stops the day Andy's dad, Paterson, New Jersey's legendary ex-DA, drops dead in front of him at a game in Yankee Stadium.