Author: Connelly, Michael
Crime & mystery
Published on 19 May 2026 by Orion Publishing Co (Orion) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 336 pages
163 x 245 x 33 | 542g
THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MICHAEL CONNELLY ****On the stunning island of Santa Catalina, California - the sun, sea, and sand hide secrets beneath the beauty...
A confidential informant tips off Detective Stilwell and his team that a major drug deal will occur under cover of darkness at a remote mountain airstrip.
But things go tragically wrong - with officers down and an unidentified shooter trying to escape the island...
In the fallout, Stilwell is forced on a break and kills time by clearing out the station's lost and found. A backpack was handed in two months ago, but the detective discovers that its owner has been missing for four years.
Solving the mystery will reach further than anyone imagines - and engages a killer starting a deadly game of cat-and-mouse...
From the author of the books behind #1 Amazon Prime series Bosch and Ballard, and #1 Netflix show The Lincoln Lawyer, comes a brand-new crime-thriller masterpiece.
****PRAISE FOR IRONWOOD:'Connelly, even after 34 years of writing superb cop thrillers, remains at the top of his game'THE TIMES'Another absolutely unputdownable police procedural'DAILY MIRROR'If you're not yet a Connelly reader, this is as good an entry point as you will find'FINANCIAL TIMES'Pacy, ably-structured, well-written... a very good holiday read'THE CRITIC'Another model of Connelly's reliable craft'IRISH TIMES'The man can do no wrong'BELFAST TELEGRAPHCRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'IAN RANKIN'The best mystery writer in the world'GQ'A superb natural storyteller'LEE CHILD'A master'STEPHEN KING'America's greatest living crime writer'DAILY EXPRESS'One of the great storytellers of crime fiction'SUNDAY TELEGRAPH