Michael Connelly

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Michael Connelly: Old Fashioned (2 1/2 ounces rye, bitters and sugar over large ice cube with cherry and orange peel) Michael Connelly describes his first meeting with Clint Eastwood who was playing piano throughout their discussion of an upcoming movie project, reveals the biggest difference between working with Netflix and Amazon, remembers the strange and unsolved crime he witnessed when only 16 years-old that that helped inspire him to become a crime novelist, names the novels and movies that most influenced him, offers a terrific piece of advice.

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0:00.0	Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside
0:06.0	the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations
0:10.7	with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the Sirius XM app, and you can
0:16.5	see us in studio. Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:22.1	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some
0:27.0	of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they
0:31.9	discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes revelations.
0:41.4	Welcome to Dedicated. Today we're with the great Michael Connolly. He is world famous for his
0:46.2	Lincoln lawyer and Bosch novels. And coincidentally, I have had about five conversations
0:51.9	recently with top authors who have all named Michael Connolly as the guy
0:56.8	they're reading. He is doing it the best of anyone out there. So I think the best thing I can say
1:01.1	by way of introduction, Michael, is that you are winning the votes of your peers.
1:05.1	That's amazing to hear. And I'm glad to be here to hear it.
1:09.3	It's great to have you here. The latest is The Proving Ground, which I loved. I be here to hear it. It's great to have you here.
1:13.3	The latest is The Proving Ground, which I loved.
1:14.3	I actually got to read it.
1:17.7	This made me feel a little bit more like Scorsese or something.
1:19.1	I read it off my own printer.
1:21.4	And it's an awesome book.
1:22.6	I totally loved it.
1:23.1	Thank you.
1:28.9	And our drink today is going to be the old-fashioned, which I'll get to work on here.
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