Connelly

Danny Connelly said he could smell the fire as soon as he walked out of the terminal "then as we walked further round, we saw the vehicle fully on fire".

Books from Michael Connelly, Ragnar Jónasson and Julia Dahl are among the must-read mysteries for fall.

Michael Connelly, a former Los Angeles Times police reporter who became an author of acclaimed crime novels, said he came to think of Wambaugh as a mentor 25 years before actually meeting him and becoming his friend.

Before Wambaugh, crime novelists often focused on “the loner detective who works outside the system he distrusts and even despises,” Connelly wrote in a preface to the 2008 edition of Wambaugh’s first novel, “The New Centurions.”

Democratic representatives instead gave the spot to a 74-year-old with esophageal cancer, Rep. Gerry Connelly, D-Va.