麥可‧康納利

美國享譽全球的知名作傢麥可‧康納利是經年蟬連暢銷書榜的作傢，獲奬無數，曾在洛杉磯時報擔任犯罪新聞記者的他，以其獨到的觀察與筆鋒寫齣冷硬派的犯罪小說，今仍創作不輟，作品風行全球、翻譯成十多種語言，《血型拼圖》於2001年被改拍成電影。麥可‧康納利1957年生於東岸費城附近，1980從佛羅裏達大學畢業，主修是新聞學，副修文學創作，之後曾於《洛杉磯時報》主跑犯罪新聞。洛杉磯工作三年後，康納利決定開始著手創作，更從新聞記者搖身變為推理大師。他的第一部小說《黑暗迴聲》（The Black Echo）發錶於1992年，故事根據洛杉磯一宗罪案改寫而成，不但贏得美國偵探小說最高榮譽愛倫坡大奬（Edgar Awards），更奠定其在文壇的地位，此外也帶齣一係列以探長哈瑞．鮑許（Harry Bosch）為主角的作品，包括著名的《黑冰》，《水泥中的金發女子》和《最後的美洲狼》。除瞭鮑許探長係列之外，康納利亦寫瞭多部單本的偵探作品，如《詩人》、《血型拼圖》等，作品陸續獲美國安東尼大奬、尼羅．吳爾夫奬、麥剋維提奬等。他曾任美國推理作傢協會2003、2004年主席，現居佛州。

Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing ' a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.

After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of journalism, landing him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written.

After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. The novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles , was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed that up with 18 more novels. His books have been translated into 31 languages and have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards.

Michael lives with his family in Florida.

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 detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation--not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and expectations that guided Li's life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.

And instantly his world explodes. The one good thing in Bosch's life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing bid to regain what he's lost. In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity.