Michael Harvey Books In Order

The Chicago Way

From the co creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files, a fast paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough talking Irish cop turned private investigator who does for the city of Chicago what Elmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles.

Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight year old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived: Diane Lindsay, a television reporter whose relationship with Kelly is not strictly professional; his best friend from childhood, Nicole Andrews, a forensic DNA expert; Nicole’s boyfriend, Vince Rodriguez, a detective with a special interest in rape cases; and Bennett Davis from the DA s office, a friend since Kelly s days on the force. To close the case, Kelly will have to face the mob, a serial killer, his own double crossing friends, and the mean streets of the city he loves.

Ferociously plotted and crackling with wit, The Chicago Way is first rate suspense steeped in the glorious, gritty atmosphere of a great city: a marvelous debut.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Fifth Floor

Michael Harvey’s sizzling follow up to The Chicago Way A wonderful first novel…
Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel…
Heralds the arrival of a major new voice Michael Connelly opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O Leary s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy City s answer to Philip Marlowe, is back in another page turner that revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicago s past. When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The trail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicago s North Side. Inside it, he finds a body, and perhaps the answer to one of Chicago s most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire and why. The ensuing investigation takes Kelly to places he d rather not go: specifically, City Hall s fabled fifth floor, where the mayor is feeling the heat. Kelly becomes embroiled in a scam that stretches from current politics back to the night Chicago burned to the ground, and along the way, he finds himself framed for murder, before finally facing a killer bent on rewriting history.

The Fifth Floor is fast stepping, intricately woven suspense, rich with the lore and atmosphere of a great city. A marvelous successor to Harvey s critically acclaimed debut.

The Third Rail

The ferocious new novel from the author of The Chicago Way A major new voice Michael Connelly and The Fifth Floor finds Michael Harvey at the top of his game in an expertly plotted, impossible to put down thriller set in Chicago’s public transit system.

Harvey s tough talking, Aeschylus quoting, former Irish cop turned PI, Michael Kelly, is backin a sizzling murder mystery that pits him against a merciless sniper on the loose. After witnessing a shooting on an L platform and receiving a phone call from the killer himself Kelly is drawn toward a murderer with an unnerving link to his own past, to a crime he witnessed as a child, and to the consequences it had on his relationship with his father, a subject Kelly would prefer to leave unexamined. But when his girlfriend the gorgeous Chicago judge Rachel Swenson is abducted, Kelly has no choice but to find the killer by excavating his own stormy past.

Stylish, sophisticated, edge of your seat suspense from a new modern master.

We All Fall Down

A light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, releasing a deadly pathogen. Within hours, a homeless man, a cop, and then dozens more start to die. Hospitals become morgues. El trains become rolling hearses. Chicago is on the verge of chaos before the mayor finally acts, quarantining entire sections of the city. Meanwhile, private investigator and former cop Michael Kelly hunts for the people responsible. The search takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago’s West Side gangs and cops on the take, and the terrifying world of black biology an elite field operating covertly at the nation s top labs, where scientists play God and will do anything necessary to keep their secrets safe.