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Blood Work done

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I thought Michael Connelly's Blood Work and The Poet would be brief detours I needed to read in order to fill in some story-lines carried over into The Narrows, tenth in the Harry Bosch series. Well, I ripped through Blood Work in a little over a day, and was about to start reading The Poet this … [Read more...]

Coming to The Narrows

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Wikipedia lists The Narrows as the tenth book in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. However... Last night when I began reading The Narrows, I soon came to these lines: Rachel knew it was Backus. The Poet had resurfaced. Just as they knew he would. It's been so long since I read the series, I have no memory of Rachel, nor Backus, … [Read more...]

Harry Bosch, PI

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Lost Light, number nine in Michael Connelly's Bosch series has Harry a year into retirement, a newly licensed private detective investigating a cold case that 'keeps him awake at night.' First thing I notice is point-of-view - first person, which I find curious since all the previous books are third person. Harry's doing the talking in … [Read more...]

Binge-reading Bosch

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Over the past several weeks I've re-read the first eight of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels one-after-another: The Black Echo (1992), The Black Ice (1993), The Concrete Blonde (1994), The Last Coyote (1995), Trunk Music (1997), Angels Flight (1999), A Darkness More Than Night (2001), and City of Bones (2002). Binge-reading … [Read more...]

Revisiting Harry

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In 2012, about twenty years and twenty books into the Bosch series, Michael Connelly gave this twenty-word description of his police detective: Harry Bosch knows how to make every case deeply personal, giving him the internal fire that makes him absolutely relentless. And yeah, he's moody. I recently 'binge watched' seasons one … [Read more...]

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