Nightshade

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…