Best Michael Connelly Audiobooks
Where to Start with Michael Connelly
- Best entry point → The Lincoln Lawyer
- Start the Harry Bosch series → The Black Echo
- Short listen, big payoff → Desert Star
- Underrated but highly rated → The Night Fire
- What fans keep coming back to → The Poet
- Best narrator for Michael Connelly → The Wrong Side of Goodbye
- Highest rated by listeners → Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer #7)
Best Michael Connelly Audiobooks
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Resurrection Walk
The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 7
Narrated by Peter Giles, Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
★ 4.86 ABR Score (84.5K ratings)★ 4.53 Goodreads (77.5K) ★ 4.81 Audible (6.9K)10h 30m listening time • Released 2023 - 2
Desert Star
Renée Ballard • Book 5
Narrated by Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles
★ 4.81 ABR Score (96.7K ratings)★ 4.47 Goodreads (86.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (10.4K)9h 43m listening time • Released 2022 - 3
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Harry Bosch • Book 19
Narrated by Titus Welliver
★ 4.73 ABR Score (101.8K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (80.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (21.5K)10h 21m listening time • Released 2016 - 4
The Night Fire
Renée Ballard • Book 3
Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver
★ 4.67 ABR Score (90.5K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (76.6K) ★ 4.7 Audible (14.0K)10h 4m listening time • Released 2019 - 5
Two Kinds of Truth
Harry Bosch • Book 20
Narrated by Titus Welliver
★ 4.66 ABR Score (88.4K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (72.5K) ★ 4.69 Audible (15.9K)9h 55m listening time • Released 2017 - 6
The Dark Hours
Renée Ballard • Book 4
Narrated by Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
★ 4.65 ABR Score (94.3K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (83.6K) ★ 4.65 Audible (10.7K)11h 4m listening time • Released 2021 - 7
The Crossing
Harry Bosch • Book 18
Narrated by Titus Welliver
★ 4.65 ABR Score (91.6K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (72.4K) ★ 4.67 Audible (19.2K)9h 24m listening time • Released 2015 - 8
The Law of Innocence
The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 6
Narrated by Peter Giles
★ 4.63 ABR Score (93.9K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (78.6K) ★ 4.6 Audible (15.3K)12h 27m listening time • Released 2020 - 9
The Waiting
Renée Ballard • Book 6
Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz
★ 4.62 ABR Score (76.0K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (71.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (4.7K)10h 50m listening time • Released 2024 - 10
The Lincoln Lawyer
A Lincoln Lawyer Novel • Book 1
Narrated by Adam Grupper
★ 4.60 ABR Score (279.0K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (258.9K) ★ 4.57 Audible (20.2K)11h 36m listening time • Released 2005Connelly's Mickey Haller debut is a legal thriller with genuine moral complexity — a defense attorney who operates from the back of a Lincoln Town Car and discovers his client is guilty.
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Trunk Music
Harry Bosch • Book 5
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 4.53 ABR Score (91.4K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (78.0K) ★ 4.6 Audible (13.4K)12h 41m listening time • Released 2008Dick Hill's gravelly narration cuts through the moral murk of this Vegas-soaked murder case like a knife—he IS Bosch's dogged obsession, making the 12+ hours feel essential rather than indulgent.
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Dark Sacred Night
Renée Ballard • Book 2
Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver
★ 4.52 ABR Score (96.8K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (84.3K) ★ 4.61 Audible (12.5K)10h 39m listening time • Released 2018 - 13
The Reversal
The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 3
Narrated by Peter Giles
★ 4.51 ABR Score (105.2K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (93.0K) ★ 4.57 Audible (12.1K)11h 35m listening time • Released 2010 - 14
The Gods of Guilt
The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 5
Narrated by Peter Giles
★ 4.49 ABR Score (87.2K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (73.6K) ★ 4.56 Audible (13.6K)11h 49m listening time • Released 2013 - 15
Lost Light
Harry Bosch • Book 9
Narrated by Len Cariou
★ 4.48 ABR Score (78.8K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (69.6K) ★ 4.57 Audible (9.2K)9h 33m listening time • Released 2003 - 16
The Brass Verdict
The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 2
Narrated by Peter Giles
★ 4.48 ABR Score (109.0K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (99.0K) ★ 4.47 Audible (10.0K)11h 54m listening time • Released 2008 - 17
The Last Coyote
Harry Bosch • Book 4
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 4.47 ABR Score (95.7K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (85.8K) ★ 4.53 Audible (9.9K)13h 26m listening time • Released 2008Dick Hill's gravelly, world-weary voice is the perfect match for Bosch at his most damaged—suspended, drinking, and finally confronting the unsolved murder that's haunted him since childhood. This is noir audiobook perfection.
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The Poet
Jack McEvoy • Book 1
Narrated by Buck Schirner
★ 4.44 ABR Score (126.9K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (110.1K) ★ 4.39 Audible (16.8K)15h 24m listening time • Released 2008Connelly's standalone thriller is his most disturbing — an LA crime reporter investigates a serial killer who stages suicides, and the investigation becomes deeply personal.
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Blood Work
Harry Bosch Universe • Book 7
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 4.44 ABR Score (71.8K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (62.4K) ★ 4.48 Audible (9.5K)12h 41m listening time • Released 2008Dick Hill's measured, deliberate narration transforms this redemption-through-obsession thriller into something more introspective than you'd expect—a retired FBI profiler hunting his heart donor's killer becomes a meditation on second chances and what we owe strangers.
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Echo Park
Harry Bosch • Book 12
Narrated by Len Cariou
★ 4.43 ABR Score (74.4K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (69.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (5.3K)10h 30m listening time • Released 2006