Book #125 of 2022: Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #20) A disappointingly underwhelming Bosch story. There are two parallel cases that the semi-retired detective is working on here, and we spend too long on the less interesting one, which is obviously author Michael Connelly’s attempt at tackling the hot topic of …
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Book #113 of 2022: The Late Show by Michael Connelly (Renée Ballard #1) [Warning: discussion of sexual assault and transphobic violence ahead in this review. Additional content warnings for the book listed below.] Theoretically, author Michael Connelly’s 30th novel should be a reasonable introduction to new character Renée Ballard, the latest protagonist to join the …
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Book #101 of 2022: The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #19) It was interesting to read this novel soon after watching the first season of Bosch: Legacy, which adapted both of its main plotlines: the quest to find a possible heir to dying billionaire Whitney Vance and the hunt for a …
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Book #89 of 2022: The Crossing by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #18) This is one of the better Harry Bosch titles I’ve read, which makes me particularly excited that it’s reportedly going to be the broad basis for the upcoming second season of Bosch: Legacy, despite how the TV canon has diverged from the novels. …
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Book #77 of 2022: The Burning Room by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #17) Another perfectly competent police procedural with detective Harry Bosch, looking into a pair of cold cases from decades back: a shooting recently upgraded to a homicide after the victim finally succumbed to his injuries and the bullet could be extracted from his …
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Book #65 of 2022: The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #5) A solid legal thriller like most in its series, but one with some unfortunate pacing issues and a letdown of an ending, in my opinion. Nevertheless, this volume is interesting for showing a bit more serialization than the Harry Bosch-adjacent novels …
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Book #54 of 2022: The Black Box by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #16) Another solid detective story — author Michael Connelly’s 25th book overall, released on the 20th anniversary of his original Bosch vehicle The Black Echo. Befittingly, this volume involves a cold case from two decades prior, of a foreign journalist found murdered in …
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Book #42 of 2022: The Drop by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #15) The two cases that make up this Harry Bosch novel are both fine, but not exactly remarkable, especially this deep into the series. In the first, a corrupt politician’s son has fallen from the top floor of a high-rise hotel, and the detective …
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Book #29 of 2022: Angle of Investigation: Three Harry Bosch Stories by Michael Connelly Another three short stories featuring detective Harry Bosch, published just one month after the previous collection Suicide Run in 2011. (It remains unclear to me why they were not combined.) This one I like a little bit better on average, so …
Book #17 of 2022: Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories by Michael Connelly A very quick read, containing just three short stories about detective Harry Bosch. (Another collection of three, Angle of Investigation, was released the following month; I have no idea why the publisher didn’t treat them as one single volume.) Of these, I …
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