Harry Bosch Books in Order

Harry Bosch investigates the death of a fellow Vietnam tunnel rat whose body is dumped in a drainpipe, uncovering a link to a daring tunnel robbery and a dangerous alliance with an FBI agent who may not tell him everything.

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.

While being sued for killing an alleged serial murderer, Harry Bosch watches a new victim turn up in the Dollmaker’s signature style, forcing him to question his own casework and hunt a killer who may have been hiding in plain sight.

Suspended and sent to therapy after lashing out at a superior, Bosch turns his attention to the unsolved murder of his mother, digging into old files, Hollywood power brokers, and a long buried cover up that has shaped his entire life.

A man is found executed in the trunk of his Rolls Royce near the Hollywood Bowl, sending Bosch from Los Angeles to Las Vegas as he unpicks a money trail involving the mob, corrupt cops, and a former lover he never quite forgot.

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 tensions explode again.

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 terrifyingly intricate case.

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 voice.

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 past and an unexpected future.

Bosch agrees to look into the death of his old colleague Terry McCaleb and soon collides with FBI agent Rachel Walling and the return of the serial killer known as the Poet, drawing together dangerous threads from several earlier cases.

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 inside the department.

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 old partner must carry.

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 faces disaster.

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 from his home ground.

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 ugly city politics.

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 will finally unlock the case.

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 will stand up in court.

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 that haunts his partner’s past.

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 cops and planted evidence.

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 test his sense of legacy and justice.

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 his reputation and his past cases.

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 handling whatever the night throws at her.

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 prominent judge.

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 backdrop of a battered LAPD.

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 still need answers.

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 husband in a case that never quite added up.

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 Bosch and his daughter, Maddie.