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Detective Stilwell (Catalina) · Book 1

Nightshade

by Michael Connelly
Published
20 May 2025
Pages
350
ISBN-13
9780316588485
Type
novel
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About this book

Michael Connelly moves his Los Angeles universe offshore to Catalina Island in Nightshade (May 2025), a 350-page novel introducing Detective Sergeant Stilwell, exiled to a one-man substation in Avalon, when a body wrapped in plastic turns up weighted down in the harbor.

Key facts about Nightshade

Nightshade is a novel by Michael Connelly. Readers have had it since 20 May 2025. It runs to 350 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Nightshade. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316588485 to find the main one.

Nightshade is book 1 of 2 in the Detective Stilwell (Catalina) series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Ironwood is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 19 May 2026.

Additionally, Michael Connelly writes Harry Bosch, Jack McEvoy and The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller), plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our crime and legal thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Ironwood is the latest published Michael Connelly book on file, from 19 May 2026.

About Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly is one of the defining American crime novelists of the past three decades, best known for the Harry Bosch series — LAPD detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, a Vietnam veteran and obsessive investigator whose personal code often puts him at odds with department politics. See every Michael Connelly book in order.

Its place in Detective Stilwell (Catalina)

Nightshade is book 1 in the Detective Stilwell (Catalina) series. It is followed by Ironwood. See the full Detective Stilwell (Catalina) reading order.

Michael Connelly's newest series moves his Los Angeles universe offshore to Catalina Island, 29 miles from the mainland but a world apart from it, where Detective Sergeant Stilwell runs the tiny one-man substation in Avalon. Exiled there after a career setback on the mainland, Stilwell expects a quiet posting of drunk-and-disorderlies and petty theft — until Nightshade (2025) opens with a body wrapped in plastic and weighted down in the harbor, a case that forces him to cross every line of jurisdiction and…

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