Quotes from Michael Connelly

The mother was listed as Rosemary Foxworth, DOB 6/21/54, Philadelphia

The best and fastest way to break a conspiracy was to identify the weakeast link in the chain and find a way to exploit it. When one link was broken, the chain would come loose.

It was the kind of phone booth you only saw in old movies and at the Farmers Market or over at Phillippe's.

Ah, siete aperti?»

The state's forensic witness was a lab geek with the personality of a test tube.

It ain't cheap anywhere," Bosch said.

were allowed to play out until the bus got to its destination. Those who could walk off did and those who couldn't were tended to. The bus pulled into the cavernous garage beneath the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center and we were off-loaded and escorted into the building's vertical maze of holding cells that served its twenty-four different courtrooms.

Bosch let her go. For a long time, he didn't move. Her words had gone through him like the sounds of a roller coaster. Low rumbling and high shrieks.

gone to Gladden's home in a rage after his five-year-old son revealed that he had been molested by

Looks like it,' Winston said.

It was the same voice from behind the line of lights. He knew to call me Mickey. I once again moved to the microphones, boxing Williams out like a power forward going for the rebound. "The murder of a child is a crime that must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, no matter what the possibilities or risks are. There is no

He knew that passion was a key element in any investigation. Passion was the fuel that kept his fire burning. So he purposely sought the personal connection or, short of that, the personal outrage in every case. It kept him locked in and focused. But it wasn't the Laura syndrome. It wasn't the same as falling in love with a dead woman. By no means was Bosch in love with June Wilkins. He was in love with the idea of reaching back across time and catching the man who had killed her.

Serial killers operate this way in most cases, with violent psychosexual urges building and then subsiding after a kill.

He knew that first-class passengers were accorded special status that moved them quickly through security checks and first onto planes. Airport and airline staff and security were less likely to concern themselves with first-class travelers, even if they were a disheveled man with blood on his jacket and a thirteen-year-old girl who couldn't seem to keep tears off her cheeks.

Bittaker and Norris

It was no longer an unexplained blip on his radar. There was now something solid there, and it needed to be explained and understood

sidewalls and a military cut. Long hair provided cover. Bosch had done it himself twice during his time in-country, returning to L.A. to spend five days

If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out.

She looked hard-shell and maybe a little weary for so early in the day, the way lady cops and hookers

It was a long shot but Ballard knew that long shots never paid off if you didn't take them.

Out of the blue and into the black. That's what he said going on a tunnel mission was. We called it the black echo.

possibility. Angela Cook's online search had only

Nathanael West's Day of the Locust.

In every murder is the tale of a city," he said.