Quotes from Michael Connelly

You didn't try to hold on to someone you should have, she said, I held on to someone I shouldn't have. I held on too long. Thing is, I knew what it was leading to, deep down I knew. It was like standing on the tracks and seeing the train coming at you but being too mesmerized by the bright light to move, to save yourself.

concrete aqueduct known as the Los Angeles River.

center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, 'I buy, I don't sell.' Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him.

jurisprudence. I

It seemed to him that every gleaming success in the city had a dark seam to it somewhere, usually just out of view.

The unknown subject, McCaleb thought. So we meet again.

fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell

Hollywood Boulevard had been victimized by a burglar three times in two years. The criminal methods of each break-in were similar and so it was suspected by the Los Angeles Police Department that the same thief was responsible each time. But the thief was careful never to leave a fingerprint or any other clue to his identity. No arrests were

breakfast the next morning Jennifer was the last to arrive. By then we had been around the table with team members

lawyer were ready for you and they shut that whole avenue down. Where do you go from there?" "We keep pushing," I said. "The four deaths are connected. I know

charge for the Times—thanks to Bosch

messenger boy here. He wasn't supposed to find out

time. He also discovered that the burglar was still inside. It was this discovery that ultimately brought Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, to the Three Kings Pawnshop.

I have always believed that the quickest way off a jury panel is to announce that you are convinced that all cops lie or all cops are always right. Either way, a closed mind is a challenge for cause.

The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system's checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizations. The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation

Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.

It was life exaggerated

elite squad that went after the tough cases with the relentless skill of a boar rooting in the mud for a truffle.

balding man with a drooping

passport indicates he lived there before coming to the United States." "I

sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new

because the conversation would go out live

What's that line that Nietzsche said? 'Whoever fights monsters…' Ã¢â'¬Â " Ã¢â'¬ËœShould see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

Damn Russians," Siegel muttered. "I hope I live long enough to see that guy impeached.