How Michael Connelly’s ‘Murder Book’ podcast is a return to the novelist’s reporting roots

Before Michael Connelly became a best-selling author of 32 novels, many of them featuring the hard-nosed LAPD detective Harry Bosch, he was a police reporter, where he, equipped with little more than a pen and pad and passion for exposing the truth, explored the crimes of the city.
He left that life long ago when the Bosch books started selling well enough he could afford to forgo his salary as a police reporter at the Los Angeles Times, and with more than 70 million copies of his books sold, an