Fresh from his Guest of Honor tribute at Bouchercon 2009, Michael Connelly made a brief stop in Oregon during his tour for his latest blockbuster novel, Nine Dragons (Little, Brown).  John Hutchinson of VJ Books was able to meet with him briefly prior to Connelly’s public event.  Connelly signed UK copies of Nine Dragons (Orion), making it possible for VJ Books to offer signed copies of this novel in all (US, UK and Limited Edition) the popular formats.

“It has been three years since he has been out to see us, so it was great to be able to spend a few minutes with him,” said Hutchinson, himself a Connelly fan.

VJ Books offers the following review of Nine Dragons:

“Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself.”  So reads the saying on a Fortune Liquors’ matchbook cover that Harry Bosch has been carrying around for a dozen years, since the LA riots that cost his partner his life.  A murder in the same liquor store leads Michael Connelly’s seasoned homicide detective to a Chinese triad operating in Los Angeles.  When Bosch gets too close he learns that his 13 year old daughter, Maddie, has been kidnapped in Hong Kong. She is being held in Kowloon, the place called 9 Dragons, and Harry must find her before it is too late.   Bosch knows every part of LA., from Angels Flight to Echo Park.  He has explored every part of the city, and that knowledge has aided him at every turn.   For the first time a case, the most important case of his life, pulls him into a different city, a different culture, where he is handicapped by his LA-centric history.  He must rely on strangers in a strange land to save the life of his only child, and to put the world back in proper order.

Not since The Last Coyote has Connelly opened a window into the soul of Harry Bosch.  The once “bulletproof” investigator finds another force at work in shaping his life.  As a father Harry must view his options from a new vantage point, one that he is not ready to face.  Connelly makes a major shift in his writing transforming Harry Bosch into a more human character.  He does it flawlessly delivering his second amazing novel of the year.”

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See Michael’s video of 9 Dragons:

THE SCARECROW has a bonus included in the hardcover – an excerpt from Michael Connelly’s next book, NINE DRAGONS. This Harry Bosch novel will be released in October 2009. And there are even more extras in THE SCARECROW. Michael created 12 fictional web sites in the story. As you come across them during your reading, you may have fun looking them up online. You’ll find some pretty cool bonus material there.

Click here to see bonus material found on one of the fictional websites.

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Then enter THE SCARECROW Book Trivia Contest. Read the book and test your knowledge. One winner will be randomly selected from all of the correct entries to have his or her name used for a character’s name in Michael’s next Harry Bosch novel, NINE DRAGONS. The winner will also receive a signed copy of the book when it’s released. This contest will run for only two weeks, from May 26 through June 9, 2009. SPOILER ALERT! The questions include spoilers for the book. Do not enter until after you’ve read THE SCARECROW.Order your signed copy of The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly at www.vjbooks.com

THE SCARECROW will have a very cool bonus feature included in the hardcover — an excerpt of Michael’s next book, NINE DRAGONS. This Harry Bosch novel will be released in October 2009.

Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in a robbery. Joined by members of the department’s Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing. Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.

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We look forward to hearing more from Justin Scott (Hardscapes, Nine Dragons and The Turning), Paul Garrison (Buried at Sea, Red Sky at Morning, The Ripple Effect and Sea Hunter), Alexander Cole and Ben Abbott!