Book #167 of 2025: The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #8) A timely, enjoyable, and yet ultimately anticlimactic legal thriller. The case is almost ripped-from-the-headlines: a high school student murders his ex-girlfriend at the apparent behest of his A.I. chat companion, leading her mother to sue the tech company behind the product. Attorney …
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Book #160 of 2022: Fair Warning by Michael Connelly (Jack McEvoy #3) This 2020 novel is the third title to center on reporter Jack McEvoy, an otherwise peripheral figure in author Michael Connelly’s broad Harry Bosch / Mickey Haller franchise. He’s always an interesting change of pace from those more frequent protagonists, and I pictured …
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Book #328 of 2021: The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Jack McEvoy #2) Reporter Jack McEvoy has been bouncing around on the periphery of the wider ‘Boschiverse‘ for a while, although he hasn’t taken center stage as a viewpoint protagonist since 14 books / 13 years back in The Poet. But he’s here again, once more …
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Book #317 of 2021: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #2) This sequel is a bit straightforward and anticlimactic, but it remains fun to watch criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller at work, staying narrowly inside the ethical bounds of his profession in general and covering his tracks well when circumstances lead him to …
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Book #158 of 2021: A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #7) Author Michael Connelly’s first big crossover project is intriguing in concept, teaming up his usual hero LAPD detective Harry Bosch with retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb from the novel Blood Work. Jack McEvoy, reporter protagonist of The Poet, is here …
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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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