Harry Bosch is getting old. To be precise, he is 72 years old in 2022, when the events in Desert Star take place. His motto has always been, “Everybody counts or nobody counts. This is the driving force in his … Continue reading Desert Star | Book Review
Six female students have gone missing from the Arizona Institute of Technology, and campus police have called in the FBI to help. Kidnapping becomes serial murder when the bodies of five are discovered. The way the bodies have been staged … Continue reading The Falcon | Book Review
Last year, as part of Amazon’s First Reads program, I read Isabella Maldonado’s crime novel, The Cipher. It introduced Nina Guerrera (aka, “Warrior Girl”). to readers. Guerrera was abandoned in a dumpster as a baby, raised (and abused) in foster homes, … Continue reading Nina Guerrera Series by Isabella Maldonado
How does a journalist report crime when the government is run by criminals? That’s not a philosophical question for John Russell; it’s an existential one. Russell is an English expatriate working as a reporter for a liberal German newspaper in … Continue reading Wedding Station | Book Review
Fair Warning begins with a murder. That’s unfortunate, but even more unfortunate for Jack McEvoy is that the LAPD considers him a suspect. McEvoy knows he’s innocent, but how will he prove it to the police. And how will he … Continue reading Fair Warning | Book Review
Michael Connelly, City of Bones (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002). Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle City of Bones is the eighth installment in Michael Connelly’s series of novels featuring Los Angeles homicide detective Harry Bosch. It opens on New Years Day, when Bosch is called to a home in Laurel Canyon. A dog has found a bone, and its owner, a medical doctor, is certain that it’s human. Bosch begins to investigate and unearths the majority of a skeleton. Forensic examination reveals that the body belonged to a young male who had suffered physical abuse throughout his short life. … Continue reading Review of ‘City of Bones’ by Michael Connelly
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