Series: Book 5 in the Harry Bosch series
Rating: ****
Tags: Bosch; Harry (Fictitious character), Michael Connelly, Los Angeles (Calif.), Police, Mystery & Detective, Police - California - Los Angeles, Police Procedural, General, Mystery fiction, Suspense, Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
LAPD Homicide detective Bosch is back from an involuntary
administrative leave just in time for the bodies to start
turning up. When he finds hints of an mob hit but can't
interest the organized crime unit in the murder, Bosch has to
take the investigation into his own hands in a this
hard-boiled tale full of sharp turns. Fans of Michael
Connelly's excellent, From the opening bars, when the body of Tony Aliso is
pulled from the trunk of his Rolls Royce Silver Cloud on
Mulholland Drive, to the final grace note on a Hawaiian
beach, Connelly has crafted a jazzy, funky, roller coaster of
a book. The return of maverick L.A. homicide detective
Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch (from 1995's The Last Coyote) is
cause for rejoicing. The Aliso murder quickly embroils Bosch
and his new team (Kizmin Rider, a young black female officer
on the rise in the department; veteran Jerry Edgar; and their
boss, Lieutenant Grace Billets) in a Byzantine tangle of Las
Vegas mob money, Hollywood filmmaking and police politics.
The plot rushes headlong into deadends and deadfalls,
repeatedly reorients and tears off in a new direction. Never
known for tact, the single-minded Bosch is soon hotfooting
through an acronymic snakepit: the LAPD's OCID (Organized
Crime Investigation Division); the IAD (Internal Affairs
Division); the LVPD's OCU (Las Vegas Police Department's
Organized Crime Unit); the FBI. Not only does each
organization claim a piece of the action, but each also wants
a piece of Bosch. Connelly has it all working together here:
skillful dialogue, solid plotting, nuances of race and status
and a pace that will leave readers gasping to keep up.
Connelly's early promise (The Black Echo earned him the 1993
Edgar for best first novel) has been borne out nicely by
succeeding novels. Trunk Music is his best yet. $400,000
ad/promo; author tour.
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