Mickey Haller has had to move into the foreclosure business since the great recession. However, one of his foreclosure clients is accused of murder and he steps in to defend her. This is a great courtroom procedural--I loved hearing about all the strategy. The client is super annoying, in a most ...
This is the first Michael Connelly offering I have read. His Harry Bosch series has not intrigued me enough to give one of those novels a chance, but the Lincoln Lawyer series had struck me as off-beat enough to consider trying. And now I've read one. It's okay. The hero, Mickey Haller, comes...
#13 in the Harry Bosch series (it is #15, as listed on Goodreads, only if you include the two novels featuring lawyer Mickey Haller. In this entry, Harry leaves the comfortable confines of L.A. for the dangerous precincts of Hong Kong.Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a Chinese liquor store ...
Brian Holloway can open any safe and thinks he knows all of them. Until he is invited to open the safe that is under the floor of the house of the famous writer Robinette. It is a Le Seuil and neither Brian nor the colleague he consults have ever heard of it. But a job is a job, so he sets to dri...
I read "Switchblade" so fast I almost had to read it twice to make it last longer. It was really good and I hope Michael Connelly turns it into a longer book. Bosch is one of my favorite characters, and he didn't disappoint in this short piece, even when I didn't see the surprise twist. For its b...
3.5 starsI applaud Michael Connelly for trying something new in this book. He let his main character, Harry, leave his comfortable life in LA to head over to Hong Kong in order to rescue his kidnapped daughter. As usual, his books are fast paced and this was no exception. I actually like pingi...
I'm reading the books by Michael Connelly in order and only have 5 to go! Several of the last ones I've read have been a little to disturbing for my tastes, but "Nine Dragons" was wonderful. Yes, it was deadly, but it wasn't really disturbing like some of the others. And, I really liked that it b...
A clutch of non-Bosch stories pimped out to fans of Connelly as a cheap download. I dunno that I'd resent these slender collections so much if there weren't a better alternative: Just gather them all together into a legitimate book. Why kick out four short digital collections? I might well have a...
Three decent short stories featuring the Harry Bosch character: Suicide Run, Cielo Azul, and One-Dollar Jackpot. The first and third are interesting procedurals with a bit of skill and twist. The second is a more hard-hitting psychological reflection - notable also for being a first person narrat...
three short stories which have Bosch in them. The best was about the sax player. Good short stories. If you're a Harry Bosch fan you will enjoy.
loved it, having just read The Narrows, it was great to get some background on Terry too. you know, I've really missed reading Michael Connolly. He's so easy to read.
[Cross-posted to Knite Writes](view spoiler)[PlotHaving finally returned to the homicide table after his involuntary stress leave in The Last Coyote, Harry Bosch is ready to tackle his first real case in months. And it comes quickly: a cop named Powers discovers a body in the trunk of a Rolls Roy...
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do re...
READER'S SUBJECTIV REVIEW FOLLOWS:City of Bones is the first in my efforts to read Michael Connelly's dated novels of his considerable catalogue. Joe Pike and Elvis Cole, who I lump with Bosch because they're LA creations of Robert Crais, seem to be more on the cutting edge of interesting novels,...
Too slow moving. Not as good as other books in the series.REVIEWER’S OPINION:This is one of the weaker books in the Harry Bosch series. If you want to read just a few of them, skip this one. Me, I intend to read them all, and I’m glad I read it. I did it as an audiobook, keeping me company wh...
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do re...
4 ½ stars. Wow. This was good. A lot of things I didn’t expect. I didn’t want to stop reading.STORY BRIEF:McCaleb is 46 years old, retired from the FBI, and lives on a fishing boat in a Los Angeles Harbor. Two months earlier Gloria was killed in a convenience store hold up. Her organs went ...
Some things are better left unsaid, so the saying goes.I personally disagree with that sentiment. While very few topics are considered “taboo” anymore, a few cultural taboos still linger; subjects upon which many writers still fear to tread due to its general unpleasantness. Cancer used to be tab...
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do re...
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do re...
In the book Crime Beat by Michael Connelly the main character is Michael Connelly. He is the main character because this is the story of how he decided to become a crime reporter. He talks about many detectives he worked with when he was a crime reporter. those detectives come and go because Mich...
Another engaging and well done mystery in the series.REVIEWER’S OPINION:I am impressed with this author consistently writing such good stories. I’m happily doing one right after the other in this 17 book series. Most of my ratings are 4 and 5 stars. The main difference is the emotional feeling...
Maybe not quite 4 stars but again the 5-star system doesn't allow enough fineness, and 3 certainly is more wrong than 4.This book contains the first three novels of the Harry Bosch detective series, now apparently numbering 17 novels, by Michael Connelly. It got it at a deep sale price, designed ...
Engaging, exciting crime mystery with a wonderful feel good ending.REVIEWER’S OPINION:As I was listening to this book over a few days, I was always eager to get back to it. I felt like I was living an exciting life. I had feelings of hope, anticipation, and excitement throughout those days. At...
This book written in the early ‘80s made me nostalgic for the days when it wasn’t common knowledge that the ammonium nitrate in fertilizer made for a dandy car bomb. Oh, to be that naive again!Speaking of naive...Elizabeth Waring is an analyst for the Justice Department who sifts through reports...
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do re...
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do rem...
This is the book in which Michael Connelly introduced Michael Haller, a lawyer who works out of an "office" in the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car as he navigates the various courtrooms that dot Los Angeles County. Connelly got the idea for the character in a chance meeting at a Dodgers basebal...
Three and a half stars.I like the Harry Bosch books. I don't read them all the time. It's been my experience that if I read novels featuring the same character back to back I become bored. It's like watching a long running series on television. It gets comfortable, but predictable. About once a y...
When Red Baker, a Larnel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red's angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Do...
It was time. He knocked once on the door and entered. Rachel Walling looked up from the table. She had the photos spread out across it so she could view them all at once.He moved into the room and sat down across from her.“It looks like you like the photos,” he said.“There isn’t much else here,” ...
The office was essentially three rooms: a reception area with a secretary’s desk, a middle room where there was a clerk’s desk and two walls of file cabinets, and then the third and largest room, Elias’s office.As Bosch and Chastain moved through the offices the others stood silently and didn’t l...
I was walking a fine gray line that could lead me into big trouble. On the one hand, it is perfectly reasonable for an attorney to investigate a report of jury misconduct and tampering. But on the other hand, that investigation could be viewed as tampering in itself. Judge Stanton had taken steps...
Her name was Bynum. She told me my house had been cleared as a crime scene and returned to my custody. “I can just go back?”“That’s right. You can go home now.”“Does that mean the investigation is complete? I mean, pending the arrest of the guy, of course.”“No, we still have a few loose ends we’r...
The house had two dormer windows that creased the roofline like eyebrows raised in surprise or maybe anger. The columns that sustained the double layer of porches looked like teeth below those eyes. Brian Holloway parked his van on the left side of the turnaround and got out without any of the to...
It had been a battle to get there. Almost every step of the way he’d had to fend off looks and inquiries about his face. By the time he got to the office section of the third floor, he was giving one-word answers to all questions — ‘Accident.’ ‘Lights,’ he said as he swung around behind his desk....
It was time for the main event, and while I had ringside seats, I was still going to be just a spectator like everybody else. That didn’t sit very well with me but it was a choice I could live with and trust. The door opened and Harry Bosch led our main witness into the courtroom. Sarah Ann Gleas...
They had been partnered for nearly two years and by now Bosch was more than used to the manifestation of Chu’s insecurities in a nonstop verbal outpouring of questions, comments and observations. He usually spoke about one thing while his real concern was something else. Sometimes Bosch took it e...
He saw that Hardy had not moved from his chair but he was now smoking a cigarette. Chu was sitting on the arm of the couch, keeping watch.“I made him turn off the tank,” he said. “So he wouldn’t blow us all up.”“There’s nothing in the tank,” Bosch said.“What?”Bosch didn’t answer. He moved across ...
Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, were pulled from Hollywood Division and assigned to a roving B Watch team that also included two shotgunners from patrol for protection. They were dispatched to any place they were needed—wherever a body turned up. The four-man team moved in a b...
I wish I could say I was already an avid fan of Poe’s written work, but I had a good excuse for not reading him. I was only seven years old at the time, too young to appreciate his dense prose and his convoluted themes. But I was certainly old enough to be thrilled by the movies that were loosely...
Madeline made the online order and Bosch swung by Birds on Franklin to pick the food up. It was still hot when he got home. They opened the to-go boxes and slid them across the table when they had guessed wrong. They both had gotten the signature rotisserie chicken but Bosch had gone for the bake...
I had not come up with a plan but I had come up with my next step and that started with a call to Raul Levin. The phone buzzed in my hand, which meant I had messages. I decided I would get them after I set Levin in motion. He answered my call and the first thing he asked w...
Two days after Da’Quan Foster was arrested for killing Lexi Parks in West Hollywood, the man he would claim was his alibi for the time of that murder was himself murdered in Hollywood, possibly by a serial killer. There was no evidence or even suggestion that this was anything other than a grim c...