Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly ( born July 21, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American writer.

Life

During his school years at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, he discovered the novels of Raymond Chandler and decided to earn his living also by letter. Connelly graduated from the University of Florida journalism and creative writing. From 1980 he worked as a journalist for various newspapers in Florida, where he specialized primarily on crime reports. In 1986, he and two other reporters conducted a series of interviews with survivors of a plane crash in Fort Lauderdale, which brought him to the list of nominations for the Pulitzer Prize. This gave him a job as a police reporter for the prestigious Los Angeles Times. Connelly was therefore arrived at the home of Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe.

Three years later, Connelly wrote the first novel by the police officers " Hieronymus Bosch", called " Harry ". The name of the hero was program. Harry Bosch is driven by a mission moralist who tries to bring his concept of order in a chaotic world that is similar to the pictures of the eponymous medieval painter. The first novel, The Black Echo (German Black Echo) appeared in 1992 and was awarded the following year with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel by the Mystery Writers of America.

Since then, Connelly has published numerous novels, most with Harry Bosch as a hero, as well as several short stories. He has won all the major international awards of the crime genre. Today Connelly is one of the most successful authors of the United States, is one of the leading representatives of the detective novel and from 2003 to 2004, President of the Authors' Guild Mystery Writers of America.

2000 Connelly produced under the title of Level 9, a TV series about computer crime. 2002 filmed Clint Eastwood Blood Work the novel of the same name, a thriller without Connelly's favorite hero Harry Bosch. 2010, his novel was made ​​into a film The Lincoln Lawyer by Brad Furman. The client was in German cinemas on 23 June 2011.

Michael Connelly lives with his family in Florida.

Awards

Works

Books with Harry Bosch

  • Black Ice, German by Norbert Puszkar; München: Heyne 1996, ISBN 3-453-10819-1.
  • The woman in the concrete, German by Norbert Puszkar; München: Heyne 1997, ISBN 3-453-12511-8.
  • The Last Coyote, German by Norbert Puszkar; München: Heyne 1998, ISBN 3-453-13094-4.
  • The comeback, German by Norbert Puszkar; München: Heyne 1999, ISBN 3-453-14737-5.
  • Black Angels, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2000, ISBN 3-453-17858-0.
  • Darker than the night, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2002, ISBN 3-453-19611-2.
  • No angel so pure German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2003, ISBN 3-453-87417- X.
  • Last warning, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2005, ISBN 3-453-43153-7.
  • The Return of the poet, German by Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2005, ISBN 3-453-01311-5.
  • Forgotten voices of German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2006, ISBN 3-453-01431-6.
  • Echo Park, dt Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-26560-8.
  • Cold death, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-43342-7.
  • So help us God, dt Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-26636-0.
  • Nine Dragons, German Sepp Leeb; Munich: Earthscan 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-50789-6.
  • Trail of Dead Girls, German Sepp Leeb; Munich: Knaur 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-50790-2.
  • The adversary, German Sepp Leeb; Munich: Knaur 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-51135-0.
  • Black Box, German Sepp Leeb; Munich: Droemer HC 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-19990-9.
  • No German translation available

More Books

  • The second heart, dt Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 1999, ISBN 3-453-15999-3.
  • In the Shadow of the Moon, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2002, ISBN 3-453-86501-4.
  • Unknown warped, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2004, ISBN 3-453-00081-1.
  • The client, dt Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2007, ISBN 3-453-01434-0.
  • L.A. Crime Report, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2007, ISBN 3-453-81095-3.
  • His last assignment, German Sepp Leeb; München: Heyne 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-26645-2.
  • The fifth witness, German Sepp Leeb; Munich: Knaur, 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-51122-0.
  • No German translation available
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