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

Īt age 12, Connelly moved with his family from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he attended St. Connelly's mother was a fan of crime fiction and introduced her son to the world of mystery novels. According to Connelly, his father was a frustrated artist who encouraged his children to want to succeed in life and was a risk taker who alternated between success and failure in his pursuit of a career.

Michael Connelly, a property developer, and Mary Connelly, a homemaker. Connelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second oldest child of W.
