“The Black Box” is the one I just finished and I saw the movie about the lawyer and McConaughey didn’t look like I pictured Mickey. I won’t go see “Jack Reacher” because I’ve read all of the Lee Child books and Tom Cruise just doesn’t do it for me.
When Connelly wrote “The Lincoln Lawyer” I was annoyed because it wasn’t Harry but I loved it. I loved the next Haller books too.
I also love Lawrence Block and John Sandford.
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Even the Connelly books that don’t feature Bosch take place in Bosch’s world. Books like ‘The Poet’, ‘Blood Work’ (didn’t care for Eastwood playing the part of Terry, either) ‘Void Moon’, ‘Chasing the Dime’, and ‘The Scarecrow’ contain references to Harry’s world and often have characters that have been previously referenced in Harry Bosch books.
In some cases, a character with a book of his own ends up “co-starring” in a later book with Bosch. For example, Terry (’Blood Work’) ended up working with Harry in a later book and Mickey Haller (’The Lincoln Lawyer’) worked with Harry in a later book. (Of course, Haller is Bosch’s half-brother so you knew that was coming.) Also, the reporter in ‘The Scarecrow’ (Jack McEvoy) was previously mentioned in Bosch books, too.
Harry even once took a motel room in one Bosch book and briefly bumped into the woman gambler, Cassie Black, from ‘Void Moon’ who just happened to be staying in the same motel. The encounter was totally irrelevant to the story, but Connelly threw it in there just to let his readers know it’s all the same Harry Bosch world. All the books and characters are connected in some way, and they’re all in Harry’s world. I really like the way Connelly does that.