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PRAISE FOR THE REVERSAL:
"Each of his books is so much more than the sum of its parts....Connelly writes true-to-life fiction about true crime. What makes his crme stories ring true is that they're never really over." (Janet Maslin, New York Times )
"Thank God for Michael Connelly....Connelly retains his journalistic gifts; his eye for detail is spot on....Taken together, his 22 novels form an indispensible, compelling chronicle of L.A." (Jonathan Shapiro, Los Angeles Times )
"Mr. Connelly, a former journalist, is a master of mixing realistic details of police work and courtroom procedure with the private feelings and personal lives of his protagonists, and of building suspense even as he evokes the somber poetry inherent in battling the dark side." (Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal )
"Another of Connelly's brilliant Los Angeles crime novels." (Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain Dealer )
"Connelly's prose is so smooth that it looks easy....The product of a master fully in command of his craft." (Robin Vidimos, Denver Post )
"Connelly knows his way around a police investigation, and he knows his way around a courtroom. This knowledge makes his stories believable while his writing skills make them come alive....An exciting writer and one we love to read." (Jackie K. Cooper, Huffington Post )
"Each of his books is so much more than the sum of its parts....Connelly writes true-to-life fiction about true crime. What makes his crme stories ring true is that they're never really over." (Janet Maslin, New York Times )
"Thank God for Michael Connelly....Connelly retains his journalistic gifts; his eye for detail is spot on....Taken together, his 22 novels form an indispensible, compelling chronicle of L.A." (Jonathan Shapiro, Los Angeles Times )
"Mr. Connelly, a former journalist, is a master of mixing realistic details of police work and courtroom procedure with the private feelings and personal lives of his protagonists, and of building suspense even as he evokes the somber poetry inherent in battling the dark side." (Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal )
"Another of Connelly's brilliant Los Angeles crime novels." (Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain Dealer )
"Connelly's prose is so smooth that it looks easy....The product of a master fully in command of his craft." (Robin Vidimos, Denver Post )
"Connelly knows his way around a police investigation, and he knows his way around a courtroom. This knowledge makes his stories believable while his writing skills make them come alive....An exciting writer and one we love to read." (Jackie K. Cooper, Huffington Post )
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Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.
DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.
Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.
Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.
DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.
Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.
Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.
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Bosch is back,
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This review is from: The Drop (Hardcover)
Just finished The Drop and must say, it's great to see Harry Bosch back in great form. I'm hopeful that there will be many more books with Harry in them. (Hint, hint Mr. Connolly). I enjoy the Lincoln Lawyer books but prefer Harry Bosch. I like his acerbic humour and outlook but am aware of his great humanity too. It doesn't always come out in the books but in the Drop, you see more of that side of him. And his failings. That's ok too...it's good to get to know a character. His treatment of his partner Chu doesn't sit well but I also understand where that comes from. Harry is a loner and is probably at his best when he has no partner or just a partner to do his leg work and office work for him. That discusses the character but not the book. It's great. The story is easy to follow and in this case, Harry has two cases at the same time. Connolly manages to keep the two plot lines separated enough so there is no confusion. Some great characters emerge from the story. Well described and easy to picture in your mind. All in all, a good book, well written.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Harry's Back!,
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This review is from: The Drop (Hardcover)
After some misses in the last couple of Harry Bosch novels, not to mention those Lincoln Lawyer stories where Harry plays a supporting role, which is not a good use of his character, I am glad to see that he is back in form in The Drop. The story is well plotted and paced and an entertaining read. Even if it is not fully up to the angst and edge of the early Bosch novels, it is still enough so to put it head and shoulders above most of the competition. Recommended.
4.0 out of 5 stars
THE STEADY DROP,
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This review is from: The Drop (Hardcover)
The drop, was another good Bosch story! Had a few suprises! Some of the plot was not very credibile and that took away from the impact for me.
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