Quotes from Michael Connelly

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than the cause, though it's the cause that is usually the most vilified.

KMA—I'm heading to scene. KMA was an old LAPD designation used at the end of a radio call. Some said it stood for Keep Me Apprised but in use it was the equivalent of over and out. Over time it had evolved to mean end of watch or, in this case, the victim's death.

name many, many more.

New Year's Eve was a night for jazz, and the saxophone could cut you in half if you were alone.

Frank Morgan, George Cables, Art Pepper, Ron Carter, and Thelonious Monk.

started its ascent

dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a

consideration when the DNA report landed. Bosch didn't think he would have done so, even with a direct DNA match to another suspect. He wrote a note on his pad. It was just one word: Manley. Bosch

levels of albumin and renal epithelial cells. These are clear signs of damage somewhere in the kidneys, bladder, or urinary tract. Most of the time it signals what is called clear cell renal cell carcinoma. This man likely had a tumor in one or possibly both kidneys, but of course we can't be sure, since we don't have him to examine." "Would he have known he had cancer?" Ballard asked.

Everybody wants the chance to do the right thing, Hirsch. It makes them feel good inside. Even if doing it doesn't exactly fit inside the rules, sometimes you have to rely on the voice inside that tells you what to do.

watching the two detectives from the next room.

He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand.

night before. His appreciation for the game had dropped markedly in recent years. He used the newspaper section mostly as a blind so that he could hold it up and appear to be reading while he was actually looking at Rachel. Other than the longer hair, she had changed little since he had last been with her. Still vibrantly attractive with an intangible sense of damage about her. It was in the eyes. They weren't the hardened

him in '93, so there is no reason to believe he

Everybody is looking for redemption. For something.

This in itself was an art. He had to describe the bracelet the way he believed other cops would, cops who might be typing in descriptions of a whole inventory of jewelry taken in a robbery or burglary.

The paintings, full of dark, hellish landscapes of torture and debauchery, are about chaos and its consequences.

The weapon was a showpiece with a blade that was only five inches long and a handle made of carved bone. The carving was a depiction of a one-sided battle in which men with knives and arrows and axes slaughtered unarmed men who appeared to be praying instead of fighting. Bosch assumed this was the massacre of the Shaolin monks that Chu had told him was the origin of the triads. The shape of the knife was very much like the shape of the tattoo on the inside of Chang's arm.

Man is depicted again and again as embracing evil, as being the instigator of his own downfall.

You can't know people that well, man. Everybody's got a private room." "So

We called it the black echo.

somehow acquired when the rapist

Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.

coming at the interview from a