Detective Stilwell (Catalina) · Book 2

Ironwood

by Michael Connelly

Published
19 May 2026
Pages
282
ISBN-13
9780316595384
Type
novel

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Cover of Ironwood

About this book

Ironwood follows almost exactly a year later, in May 2026, at 282 pages, as a drug-running flight leaves one of Stilwell's deputies dead and crosses his investigation with LAPD's Renee Ballard and the Open-Unsolved Unit.

Its place in Detective Stilwell (Catalina)

Ironwood is book 2 in the Detective Stilwell (Catalina) series. It follows Nightshade. 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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