Nesbø wrote a re-telling of the story of Macbeth as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project.

… 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.

Shakespeare’s version is an easier read.

I barely got through it.

Nesbø is considered cool. He gets good reviews from critics.

Regular folks don’t like him quite as much. This book is 3.44 / 5.00 on GoodReads as I post.

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. …

Publisher’s Weekly review

This is the first Connelly novel I’ve read without a recurring character. It’s a stand alone book published 2002.

It’s excellent. But readers are much less keen than for his Harry Bosch books.

The plot really kept me going. It was hard to believe that such a smart man kept doing so many dumb things, however. 😀

A hot-shot entrepreneur is on the verge of announcing a historic (and potentially very lucrative) breakthrough in nanotechnology.

In an attempt to escape the pressure of his work, he becomes fascinated with a peculiar puzzle: what happened to the woman who had his telephone number before him …

Wikipedia

These days I mostly read Michael Connelly.

For his 30th book (2017) he introduced a new character:

Renée Ballard

She’s a Bosch-like intense female detective working the night shift (“late show”) in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives.

A once up-and-coming rookie, she’s been assigned the late shift as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.

But one night she catches two cases she doesn’t want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner’s wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the cases entwine they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won’t give up her job no matter what the department throws at her.

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One theme of this excellent book are the violent excesses of the FBI post-9/11.

Lost Light is the ninth novel in Michael Connelly‘s Harry Bosch series. …

… the first novel set after Bosch retires from the LAPD at the end of the prior story.

Bosch investigates an old case concerning the murder of a production assistant on the set of a film. The case leads him back into contact with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish, who is now a professional poker player in Las Vegas, and Bosch learns at the end that he and Eleanor have a young daughter.

#23 in the series was published Nov. 5, 2018. Child has sold over 100 million books. His fans (like me) are thrilled when a new one is released.

There’s no such thing as a bad Jack Reacher book. This one is already 4.28 / 5.00 on GoodReads.

Though I love the odd style of writing, I wouldn’t call this one of Lee Child’s best books.

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