Author: Michael Connelly
Series: Harry Bosch
Publisher: Vision
Publication Date: December 2, 2003
Reviewer: Annie
Summary (as quoted from Amazon): Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly game-one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.
Review:
I got this book at the amazing free book exchange (oh how I miss you!). I listened to his book The Scarecrow about a year ago and enjoyed it for a thriller type of book. So Connelly was an author I was keeping my eye out for when I want a good thriller. This book is about a police officer who is found dead and it is assumed to be a suicide. However one of the other members of the police force is having a hard time believing that. He takes on some of the cases that were left from his fallen co worker and starts uncovering things to help his suspicion that it wasn't a suicide. The story takes places in LA as well as just over the border in Mexico as he is trying to find all the answers.
I don't think I enjoyed this book as much as the last one I read by him. The first half I kept wondering where things were going and the book seemed to move slowly. The last half all the way to the end got pretty interesting, but there were still some down moments where I felt like the story slowed or even came to a stop. You also aren't sure for most of the book who is a good guy and who is a bad guy which is nice for some mystery but I felt like there was a little too much of that and after a while it just got annoying. Before I recommend this book I would first recommend reading The Scarecrow (or possibly one of his other books). And if you have read that, and liked it, I would say you might like this one, too. I'm also not sure if because I listened to The Scarecrow I liked it more, so maybe try out this book on audio if you can find it. If this were the first book I read by him I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but since I know he can do better I say give one of his other books a chance first.
-Annie
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