Michael Connelly
Book 1 in the Harry Bosch Series
Detective Harry Bosch is an LA cop created by Connelly in the early 90's, shortly after the LA riots. He is an old school, 40 something, stereotypical cowboy cop working the homicide table in the Hollywood division. I loved the Bosch TV series put out by Amazon starring Titus Welliver and figured I would give the books a try. While the series takes liberties with the characters details, the books and series definitely portray LA as central to the storytelling and I look forward to seeing how that evolves over a couple of decades. In this introductory novel, Bosch is working a case where he ID's the victim as a guy he new in Vietnam. This leads to a complex unwinding of an old bank robbery, some smuggling, and the psychological complexities of Bosch working through his own history in Vietnam and recent notoriety having worked an LAPD serial killer case. My mental images while reading are definitely colored by the TV portrayal, but I would characterize that as an enhancement of my enjoyment. This is a classic police procedural, murder mystery setup that delivers exactly what a beach reader is looking for (and likely continues to deliver based on the 20 or so books still to come in the series).
3 stars (out of 4)
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