Void Moon

Chasing the Dime

Anthologies

Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase (editor)

Nonfiction

Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Short Stories

Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories (e-book only)

Angle of Investigation: Three Harry Bosch Stories (e-book only)

Mulholland Dive: Three Stories (e-book only)

The Safe Man: A Ghost Story (e-book only)

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Excerpt from The Black Box copyright © 2012 by Hieronymus, Inc.

Author photograph by Terrill Lee Lankford

Cover design by Allison Warner

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“Cahoots,” was originally published in Measures of Poison, edited by Dennis McMillan. “Mulholland Dive,” was originally published in Los Angeles Noir, edited by Denise Hamilton. It also appeared in A Prisoner of Memory, edited by Ed Gorman, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2008, edited by George Pelecanos and Otto Penzler. “Two-Bagger,” was originally published in Murderers’ Row, edited by Otto Penzler, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2002, edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler.

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Contents

Title Page

Welcome

Cahoots

Mulholland Dive

Two-Bagger

About the Author

A Preview of The Black Box

Snow White

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Books by Michael Connelly

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