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Connelly is the bestselling author of 38 novels and one work of non-fiction, with over 74 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into 40 languages. In , Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's novel, Blood Work. Connelly was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , the second eldest child of W. Michael Connelly, a property developer , and Mary Connelly, a homemaker.

Connelly's mother was a fan of crime fiction and introduced her son to the world of mystery novels. Thomas Aquinas High School. At age 16, Connelly's interest in crime and mystery escalated when, on his way home from his work as a hotel dishwasher, he witnessed a man throw an object into a hedge. Connelly decided to investigate and found that the object was a gun wrapped in a lumberjack shirt.

After putting the gun back, he followed the man to a bar and then left to go home to tell his father. Later that night, Connelly brought the police down to the bar, but the man was already gone. This event introduced Connelly to the world of police officers and their lives, impressing him with the way they worked.

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Connelly had planned on following his father's early choice of career in building construction and started out at the University of Florida in Gainesville , at the Rinker School of Building Construction , studying construction management. The film, based on Raymond Chandler 's eponymous novel , inspired Connelly to want to become a mystery writer.

Connelly went home and read all of Chandler's works featuring Philip Marlowe , and decided to transfer to the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications , major in journalism, and minor in creative writing. After graduating from the University of Florida in , Connelly got a job as a crime beat writer at the Daytona Beach News-Journal , where he worked for almost two years until he went to the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel in There, he covered the crime beat during the South Florida cocaine wars.

He moved to California in with his wife Linda McCaleb, whom he met while in college and married in April