Michael Connelly

..."Nine Dragons." He sent him to Hong Kong, which in a sense, became a Los Angeles substitute. Connelly called it a "fish out of water" story. He decided on Hong Kong after visiting the city five years ago. "There's much going on," he...

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...meets fiction, the cases are harder to solve By Michael Connelly, Special to CNN Michael Connelly's latest novel, "Nine Dragons," is set in Hong Kong Two days before Connelly arrived, Canadian tourist Ani Ashekian vanished Ashekian...

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...Ashekian vanished. The same week, best-selling American crime novelist and filmmaker Michael Connelly spent two days combing Chungking Mansions, researching a new novel and shooting video for short promotional spots. His book Nine Dragons,...

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...named Madeline who lives with her mother in Hong Kong. "It seemed to him," Connelly writes, "that the weeks and months between seeing Maddie were getting more difficult. He missed her all the time. " Forget the flourishes, the ornate...

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...to make the bestseller lists, but I knew I'd keep reading him." Connelly put his driver down long enough to talk about "9 Dragons," which takes place partly in Hong Kong. Q. You decided several books ago that you wanted to take Harry to...

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