Books like Night Fire 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.

Detective Harry Bosch is drawn into a chilling series of ritual murders that threaten Los Angeles, forcing him to confront the city’s darkness and his own past.

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.

Crime‑beat reporter Jack McEvoy races against time to catch a cleverly word‑crafting serial killer who preys on police detectives in Colorado’s streets.

Harry Bosch reconnects a 20‑year‑old murder of a young female photographer to a fresh crime, using ballistics to reveal a personal, hidden plot in the aftermath of the L.A. riots.

Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD cop Milo Sturgis team up to chase a serial killer whose twisted motives and clever tactics keep the police and forensic psychologists on their toes.

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.

A single volume of Michael Connelly’s first three debut novels introduces LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch as he tackles a Vietnam veteran’s murder, a drug‑murder conspiracy, and the twisted Dollmaker case.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is drawn into a chilling murder case when he discovers that the victim, a former client he once tried to rehabilitate, had returned to a life of prostitution. The case forces him to confront his past choices.

A gripping police procedural mystery that has reached New York Times bestseller status.

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.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.