Crossover Cover: The Late Show

 

L.A.P.D. detective Renée Ballard investigates deaths at a nightclub called the Dancers. Her former partner, Ken Chastain, was the son of a cop killed in the line of duty. After killing a criminal, Renée goes to Carmen Hinojos in the Behavioral Science Unit. The killer’s ex-wife, Beatrice Beaupre, has used the name “Shaquilla Shackles.” The Dancers club is from Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novel The Long Goodbye. Ken Chastain’s father is John Chastain from Connelly’s Harry Bosch series. Carmen Hinojos is from the Bosch novels The Last Coyote and 9 Dragons. Shaquilla Shackles is mentioned in Connelly’s Mickey Haller novel The Lincoln Lawyer.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Last Detective

Elvis Cole runs into Harry Bosch. It is mentioned Bosch lives in the same area as Cole. Carol Starkey appears. Harry Bosch is not identified by name, but is described in such a way as to leave little doubt it is him. Elvis would also make a cameo in the Harry Bosch novel Lost Light. Bosch is also mentioned in the novel Cons, Scams & Grifts by Joe Gores, one of the Dan Kearny and Associates novels. Carol Starkey is from Crais’ novel Demolition Angel. With this novel, she becomes a recurring character in the series.

Crossover Cover: Lost Light

Harry Bosch sees Elvis Cole driving his yellow 1966 Corvette and salutes the P.I. Robert Crais’ detective Elvis Cole is not referred to by name, but his description is unmistakable. Prior to this book, Harry Bosch had an unnamed cameo in the Elvis Cole novel The Last Detective. Since Bosch is in the CU through Joe Gores' DKA novel Cons, Scams & Grifts, so is Cole.

Crossover Cover: Strange Bedfellows

The fourth novel in Paula L. Woods' series about L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Charlotte Justice is set in March of 1993. Charlotte sees her superior, Lieutenant Stobaugh, speaking to Harry Bosch, and thinks that he couldn't be trying to get Bosch transferred back to Robbery-Homicide. She wonders if Stobaugh intends to replace her with Bosch. Since Michael Connelly's cop Harry Bosch is in the Crossover Universe, so is Charlotte Justice. Bosch was reinstated to robbery-homicide in the 2005 novel The Closers.

Crossover Cover: Cons, Scams & Grifts

Joe Gores' DKA novels are in the CU through a story where Dan Kearney met the ghost of the Continental Op. In this DKA book, a couple of cops receive help on a case from an L.A. Homicide detective named Harry Bosch. Bosch is featured in a series of novels by Michael Connelly. All of Connelly's novels take place in the same universe. Bosch has a cameo in Robert Crais' Elvis Cole novel The Last Detective, while Cole cameos in the Bosch novel Lost Light. Like Connelly, Crais sets most of his novels in the same universe. Bosch also cameos in Paula L. Woods' Charlotte Justice novel Strange Bedfellows. Finally, in the story "Red Eye" in the all-crossover anthology FaceOff, Bosch meets Dennis Lehane's Boston P.I. Patrick Kenzie.