Books like The Narrows by Michael Connelly

Jack Reacher is forced into a FBI investigation of a series of bizarre bathtub murders targeting women who sued their military superiors. With his reputation at stake, Reacher must expose the truth before the killer reaches him.

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.

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.

Private detective William Monk is drawn into a perilous investigation that links a stolen cargo of African ivory, a mysterious murder at a docked schooner, and a desperate woman sent to his wife's clinic, threatening both their lives and their world.

Stone Barrington, a former cop‑turned‑lawyer and private investigator, heads to Los Angeles for a high‑profile celebrity murder that pulls him into a tangled web of romance, Mafia intrigue and old flames.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch reopens an unsolved murder of a production assistant—investigating a crime that may be linked to terrorism and stumbling into old rivalries and personal ghosts along the way.

Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery, Bosch and the tiny town' three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which leads into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organized crime and pill mills. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD comes back to haunt him when a long=imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former collegues are not keen on protecting his reputation. But if this conviction is overturned, every case Bosch ever worked will be called into question. As usual, he must fend for himself as he tries to clear his name and keep a clever killer in prison. The two cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way, Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kinds that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness. Tense, fast-paced, and fueled by this legendary detective's unrelenting sense of mission, The Kinds of Truth is proof positive that "Connelly writes cops better than anyone else in the business." - New York Post

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.

Harry Bosch takes on a tainted homicide case involving a black lawyer’s murder, confronting corruption within the LAPD.

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.

Dr. Dani Justice, a psychic investigator, must outwit a ruthless serial killer who has already murdered a senator’s daughter. Joined by FBI special officer Noah Bishop and an unconventional crime‑stopping collective, the hunt for the monster ends in blood, fire, and lingering danger.

The Last Coyote: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute. Trunk Music: Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties. Up against both the LAPD's organized crime unit and the mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. Angels Flight: The murder of a prominent African-American attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality means that Harry's friends and associates have become suspects; and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them. Together for the first time, these three chilling, pulse-pounding novels chart the volatile, breakneck career of the sleuth the New York Post calls "the quintessential mystery book hero" and prove that "Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels are the most impressive body of work by any writer of crime thrillers now active" (Washington Post).

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.

Detective Harry Bosch faces a new serial killer, the Dollmaker, after the death of a suspect he and the LAPD think was innocent. He must track the killer again through a violent Los Angeles hunt and a courtroom showdown.

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.

In Washington, D.C., a crime lord’s life hangs in court while rival dealers battle for territory and a female witness’s testimony could doom or save him, and PI Derek Strange races to protect her.

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

In Twisted, LAPD detective Petra Connor tackles a string of identical drive‑by murders that point to a cunning, long‑evaded killer. With no leads and departmental politics at odds, she must race against time to stop a deadly pattern before it repeats.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch returns home to tackle cold cases in the department’s Open‑Unsolved Unit, working alongside partner Kiz Rider to close long‑standing crimes.

In Los Angeles, detective Harry Bosch is summoned by the dying aviation tycoon Whitney Vance to uncover the fate of his long‑lost love, Vibiana Duarte, and determine who may inherit his fortune.

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.