18 books like The Wrong Side of Goodbye

What to read after The Wrong Side of Goodbye — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Reversal Michael Connelly · 2010 · ★ 4.5 In this bestselling thriller, after DNA evidence frees a sadistic killer, defense attorney Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must put him behind bars before he strikes again. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer.​ Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Investigation

Lost Light Michael Connelly · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate When he left the LAPD, Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a movie set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal, and when Bosch decides to reinvestigate, he quickly falls foul of both his old colleagues and the… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Investigation

The Night Fire Michael Connelly · 2019 · ★ 4.5 A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARA CrimeReads Best Crime Novel Notable selection Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him---new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael ConnellyBack when Harry Bosch was just a rookie… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles

The Reversal Michael Connelly · 2015 · ★ 4.2 · 472p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In this bestselling thriller, after DNA evidence frees a sadistic killer, defense attorney Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must put him behind bars before he strikes again. Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer.​ Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles

The Last Coyote Michael Connelly · 1995 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Suspended from his job with the LAPD, Harry Bosch must face the darkest parts of his past to track down his mother's killer . . . even if it costs him his life. Harry Bosch's life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's even had to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective's badge.… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles

The Burning Room Michael Connelly · 2014 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot ... very fast.   In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles

Trunk Music Michael Connelly · 1997 · ★ 4.4 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge. But his first case is a little more than he bargained for. It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit. But the LAPD's organized crime unit is curiously… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Thriller

City of Bones Michael Connelly · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Moderate On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Investigation

The Concrete Blonde Michael Connelly · 1994 · ★ 4.2 · 367p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare.But the dead man's widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man-- an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Thriller

The Black Box Michael Connelly · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 466p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Harry Bosch investigates after a bullet from a recent killing is a match for one used in the unsolved murder of a photographer in 1992. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and violence. Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Investigation

Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler · 1940 · ★ 4.1 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is one of Chandler’s most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. Shares: Los angeles, Private investigators, Mystery

The Black Ice Michael Connelly · 1993 · ★ 4.1 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Moderate LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Thriller

Death's Shadow Jon Wells · 2013 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Victims and survivors, angels and demons, intersect along winding roads to imperfect justice.“Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic …” So writes award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist and author Jon Wells in one of four harrowing murder stories in Death’s Shadow. Wells take readers up close… Shares: Criminal investigation, Investigation, Murder

The Narrows Michael Connelly · 2004 · ★ 4.5 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Private investigators, Thriller

A Darkness More Than Night Michael Connelly · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Terrence McCaleb is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Private investigators, Police

The Redbreast Jo Nesbø · 2007 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Don’t Miss the Netflix series Detective Hole, based on Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series, premiering March 26, 2026!“An elegant and complex thriller….Harrowingly beautiful.” —New York Times Book Review“The Redbreast certainly ranks with the best of current American crime fiction.” —Washington PostJo Nesbø, the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman, has solidified his spot as one of the most… Shares: Police, Investigation, Murder

The Brass Verdict Michael Connelly · 2008 · ★ 4.5 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time,… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Investigation

Nine Dragons Michael Connelly · 2009 · ★ 4.4 · 377p · ≈ 12h · Moderate LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a… Shares: Bosch, Los angeles, Police, Investigation

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