Los Angeles magazine offers an interview with crime writer Michael Connelly.
When I first started writing him, I was a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, and I made it my business to visit one police station a day. So I was seeing a high number of detectives as I was formulating this character. I would say about half of them rubbed off on me.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.lamag.com/crimeinla/2013/07/25/michael-connellys-novel-approach-to-crime-in-la
You can also read my interview with Michael Connelly from a few years back via the below link:
http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2010/04/killers-cops-and-crime-reporters-q-with.html
And you can read my Philadelphia Inquirer review of Michael Connelly's Nine Dragons via the below link:
http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/10/michael-connellys-detective-harry-bosch.html
