Books like Black Box by Michael Connelly

Detective Harry Bosch and rookie partner Lucia Soto reopen a decades‑old LAPD cold case when a stray bullet finally kills its victim, uncovering a politically charged mystery that turns out to be anything but random.

Michael Connelly’s debut in the Mickey Haller series follows a Los Angeles defense attorney who operates from the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, confronting a high‑profile client and a murder that threatens his own life.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller faces his most dangerous case yet when he must defend studio executive Walter Elliott after the murder of Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent, while detective Harry Bosch enters the fray to find Vincent’s killer.

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

Detective Harry Bosch is drawn back into a decades‑old homicide when a buried bone uncovers a murder in the Hollywood Hills, forcing him to confront his past and a new partner as the case escalates across Los Angeles.

Harry Bosch confronts the prospect of retirement when he is placed on the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, earning a three‑year window to solve one last case before the city’s police Department enforces his exit.

Suspended detective Harry Bosch investigates a 1961 murder that turns out to be his own mother, uncovering a decades‑old conspiracy in Los Angeles.

Harry Bosch’s past catches up with him in Los Angeles, where a cold case from 20 years ago resurfaces and threatens his ability to solve the present-day murder case.