Michael Connelly on ‘fake news,’ COVID-19 writing and his nonprofit-set thriller

With more than 74 million books sold worldwide, former Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Connelly has created not just a collection of mysteries, but a culturally pervasive alternate reality as well — the Michael Connelly Universe, with its own super-group of crime-fighting heroes. Thanks to the books and screen adaptations, Harry Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller (“The …