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...