On New Year’s Day, a dog digs up a bone in Laurel Canyon outside of Los Angeles. The dog’s owner, a doctor, recognizes the bone as human and calls it in to the police. …
Good story, as usual for Connelly.
Harry’s partner in this early book is Jerry Edgar. This time frame used in the Bosch TV series.
Julia Brasher is Harry’s love interest in this one. In the book she accidentally shoots herself. In the TV series she survives.
Gripping. This is the closest I’ve yet come to binge watching.
Great story. Excellent acting. Best season, so far.
Bosch is written by Eric Overmyer, the guy who did the final two years of The Wire, my favourite TV series. Two actors from the Wire appear in Bosch, as well.
This young adult book was originally intended to be a picture book featuring photographs Riggs had collected, but on the advice of an editor at Quirk Books, he used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. …
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a story about a boy who follows clues from his grandfather’s old photographs, tales, and his grandfather’s last words which lead him on an adventure that takes him to a large abandoned orphanage on Cairnholm, a fictional Welsh island.
I’ve no particular interest in reading any of the sequels.
… described as a ‘crime noir’ version of the tragedy … his Macbeth is set in 1970 in an unspecified location that combines aspects of Scandinavia and Scotland, and involves an Inspector Macbeth of a paramilitary SWAT team targeting bikers, drug dealers, and his police colleagues. It was published in April 2018.
I found the book well written but too long. Too complicated.
I was only 70% if favour of spending tax dollars on a future Olympics. But I’m 100% for opening my wallet for the new library. It’s all good. I particularly like public transit train access on site.
The Narrows (2004) is the 14th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the tenth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch.
As Bosch crosses paths with FBI Agent Rachel Walling, the novel ties story elements left unresolved in The Poet and those from Blood Work and A Darkness More Than Night together into the Bosch mythos. …
There’s a gravitas to the mystery/thrillers of Michael Connelly, a bedrock commitment to the value of human life and the need for law enforcement pros to defend that value, that sets his work apart and above that of many of his contemporaries.
… it supports a dynamite plot, fully flowered characters and a meticulous attention to the details of investigative procedure. …
