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Start with The Black Echo and continue through all 27 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by Michael Connelly
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Ends with The Waiting
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Book 1:The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
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Book 2:The Black Ice
Michael Connelly • 1993
A narcotics officer is found dead in a motel room beside a note and rumors of a new drug called Black Ice, and Bosch ignores orders to follow the trail into Mexican border towns, dirty cops, and cartel violence.
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Book 3:The Concrete Blonde
Michael Connelly
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Book 4:The Last Coyote
Michael Connelly
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Book 5:Trunk Music
Michael Connelly
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Book 6:Angels Flight
Michael Connelly • 1999
When civil rights lawyer Howard Elias is gunned down on the Angels Flight funicular, almost every cop in Los Angeles is a potential suspect, and Bosch is ordered to solve the case before the city’s fraught racial tens...
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Book 7:A Darkness More Than Night
Michael Connelly • 2001
Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is asked to read a baffling murder file and finds a pattern that seems to implicate Harry Bosch, even as Bosch testifies in a Hollywood murder trial, pulling both men into one terrif...
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Book 8:City of Bones
Michael Connelly • 2002
A dog uncovers a human bone in Laurel Canyon, leading Bosch to a shallow grave and the decades old murder of a boy, a case that forces him to confront institutional indifference and speak for a victim who never had a...
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Book 9:Lost Light
Michael Connelly • 2003
Newly retired and working as a private investigator, Bosch reopens the unsolved killing of a young production assistant on a movie set, clashing with post-9/11 federal priorities while the case reconnects him with his...
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Book 10:The Narrows
Michael Connelly
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Book 11:The Closers
Michael Connelly • 2005
Back on the LAPD in the Open-Unsolved Unit, Bosch and his former partner Kiz Rider use new DNA evidence to revive the 1988 murder of a mixed race teenager, a politically charged case watched closely by old enemies ins...
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Book 12:Echo Park
Michael Connelly • 2006
Thirteen years after a young woman vanishes from a Hollywood parking lot, a serial killer offers to confess to her murder, forcing Bosch to relive the failed investigation and decide how much of the blame he and his o...
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Book 13:The Overlook
Michael Connelly • 2007
Bosch catches the late night murder of a doctor who had access to radioactive cesium, then finds himself pushed aside by federal agents who fear a dirty bomb plot, so he works the case his own way before the city face...
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Book 14:Nine Dragons
Michael Connelly • 2009
After a convenience store owner Bosch knows is shot dead in South Los Angeles, the trail points to a Hong Kong triad, and then his daughter Maddie is kidnapped overseas, forcing him into a frantic rescue mission far f...
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Book 15:The Drop
Michael Connelly • 2011
Given only a few years before forced retirement, Bosch juggles a cold case revived by a troubling DNA hit and the suspicious fall of a councilman’s son from a hotel balcony, exposing both a long running predator and u...
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Book 16:The Black Box
Michael Connelly • 2012
A shell casing from a recent crime links back to an unsolved killing during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and Bosch reopens the murder of a foreign photojournalist, hunting for the one missing piece of evidence that wil...
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Book 17:Switchblade
Michael Connelly • 2014
An anonymous tip pushes Bosch toward a decades old stabbing of a teenage boy in an abandoned restaurant, where new DNA evidence points to a convicted killer and Bosch has only one chance to draw out a confession that...
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Book 18:The Burning Room
Michael Connelly • 2014
Working cold cases with young detective Lucia Soto, Bosch investigates a man who dies from complications of a long ago shooting, only to uncover political secrets, botched police work, and a separate unsolved fire tha...
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Book 19:The Crossing
Michael Connelly • 2015
Newly retired from the LAPD, Bosch reluctantly agrees to help his half brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, investigate a client who swears he was framed for murder, sending Bosch across the aisle to probe corrupt...
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Book 20:The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Michael Connelly • 2016
Splitting his time between volunteer work for a small police department and private investigations, Bosch is hired by a dying billionaire to find a possible heir while also tracking a serial rapist, two cases that tes...
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Book 21:Two Kinds of Truth
Michael Connelly • 2017
Volunteering with a small city’s cold case unit, Bosch looks into the murder of a pharmacist caught in a prescription drug scheme even as a long imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, forcing Bosch to defend both...
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Book 22:Dark Sacred Night
Michael Connelly • 2018
Working the graveyard shift, Ballard catches Bosch rifling through case files about Daisy Clayton, a murdered runaway, and ends up partnering with the retired detective to chase the long cold killer while still handli...
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Book 23:The Night Fire
Michael Connelly • 2019
After his old mentor dies, Bosch inherits a stolen murder book about a young man shot in an alley and asks Ballard to help him see what was missed, even as both detectives juggle an arson death and the killing of a pr...
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Book 24:The Dark Hours
Michael Connelly • 2021
On New Year’s Eve 2020, detective Renée Ballard catches a street party shooting that appears tied to one of Bosch’s old cases while also hunting a pair of serial rapists known as the Midnight Men, all against the back...
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Book 25:Desert Star
Michael Connelly • 2022
Renée Ballard returns to the LAPD to rebuild its cold case unit and invites Bosch to pursue the family annihilation that has haunted him for years, while together they balance that obsession against other victims who...
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Book 26:Resurrection Walk
Michael Connelly • 2023
After freeing a wrongfully convicted man, Mickey Haller starts sifting through letters from prisoners claiming innocence and asks Bosch to help, and together they focus on a woman imprisoned for killing her deputy ex...
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Book 27:The Waiting
Michael Connelly • 2024
Ballard’s cold case squad gets a DNA lead tying a recent arrest to an old serial rapist dubbed the Pillowcase Rapist, while the theft of her badge and gun forces her to investigate under the radar and draw in both Bos...
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Harry Bosch FAQ
What is the best order to read the Harry Bosch series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with The Black Echo.
How many books are in the Harry Bosch series?
There are 27 books currently listed in the Harry Bosch series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Harry Bosch series?
New readers should start with The Black Echo, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Harry Bosch series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears possibly ongoing and spans releases from 1993 to 2024.