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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Book #31 of 2019: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #1) I don’t read (or watch) a lot of police procedurals, but having enjoyed the TV adaptation of this book series, I figured I should check out some of the original source material. And I’m glad that I finally did, because this first …
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