After three years at the Los Angeles Times, Connelly wrote his first published novel, The Black Echo (1992), after previously writing two unfinished novels that he had not attempted to get published [REF].
Connelly went on to write three more novels about Detective Bosch - The Black Ice (1993), The Concrete Blonde (1994), and The Last Coyote (1995) - before quitting his job as a reporter to write full-time [REF].