Book #102 of 2021: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #6) This 1999 novel is interestingly (and depressingly) timely two decades on, as it plays out against a backdrop of police brutality and an ensuing race riot. Author Michael Connelly may have been drawing on the recent high-profile Rodney King and OJ Simpson cases, …
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Book #56 of 2021: Trunk Music by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #5) Like the other titles in its series, this is a reasonably solid procedural crime thriller — albeit a little heavy on coincidences, such as the protagonist encountering an old flame / new potential suspect while pursuing a lead in a different city or …
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Book #295 of 2020: The Poet by Michael Connelly (Jack McEvoy #1) Author Michael Connelly’s fifth crime thriller, the first not to feature detective Harry Bosch, has been written to stand on its own, although it introduces concepts and characters that will later cross over with the main series. Our protagonist this time is investigative …
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Book #239 of 2020: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #4) I know it was only a matter of time before Detective Harry Bosch would get around to the cold case of his mother’s murder, but most of the investigation here plays out too straightforwardly to keep my full interest. The lack of …
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Book #209 of 2020: The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #3) This 1994 novel opens with detective Harry Bosch on trial for his shooting of an unarmed man four years ago, a civil complaint brought by the widow against the city. (The deceased was a suspected rapist and serial killer, and Bosch mistakenly …
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Book #82 of 2019: The Black Ice by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #2) I’m of two minds about this second Bosch novel. On the one hand, the detective and his associates feel more like the versions that I know from the TV adaptation of the series, which presumably means that they’ve settled more into their …
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