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Summary: The master is back!
Review: Deception, intrigue, thrills, and mystery - what more could you ask for? This latest entry in the Harry Bosch serries is another winner. In this book we get to see a little deeper inside Harry, and he does redeam himself with the police department. Besides the great plot, this book delivers complex, belivable characters, which is what keeps drawing me back to Connely's writing! Also recommended: 'A Tourist in the Yucatan' thriller that has become an underground hit!
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Summary: Just when you thought Harry was out........they keep pulling
Review: Harry Bosch has visted my life over the last what - twelve years? - like a benevolent uncle that I'm always glad to see. He's the perfect guest, never stays too long, does what he does best, then leaves - I look forward to my Harry visits, and he never dissapoints because somehow Mr. Connolly always delivers in line with my expectations - and for a $25 hardback, that's more than I can say about most of his contemporaries. Specifically, the Narrows has some nice experimental twists which will be noticable mainly to long term Connolly readers, and I applaud the way that the author makes me feel part of the saga of his characters over the years. I feel if I saw Harry Bosch walking down the street he'd say "hello". So yes - buy this book, but the real message I guess is go and buy the 2 Harry Bosch anthologies, and get started, and take your time. This guy is the Rex Stout of our times. And Mr. Connolly, (or your agent) let's send harry to NYC next time - or best of all, a collaboration with Derek Strange!!! Now that's a first!
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Summary: The Narrows
Review: Michael Connelly is at it again, his writing is great and the story will not only keep you reading but when you finish the book the feeling of sadness will set in. You will want more and have become part of the thriller by reading the pages. His characters are great and you have seen some of them before if you have read the Poet. The road to Las Vegas from Los Angeles is always hot, but this time its not from the heat of the sun but the heat of a serial killer, the good ex-detective Harry Bosch is ask to help stop the killer before he kills again. Harry wanted out of this type action but it's in his blood and he just can't say no. This book is a must read-Larry Hobson- Author "The Day Of The Rose"
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Summary: Connelly consistently satisfies
Review: Terry McCaleb, from an earlier novel, has died and his wife, Graciela, enlists Harry Bosch's help in finding out who tampered with Terry's medications. The poet, also from another earlier novel, is back to haunt Rachel Walling. And, as Connelly does so well, the seemingly disparate stories are cleverly woven together in this most recent worthy effort. Connelly is not only a good story teller, but a fine writer as well engaging the reader from the very first page and keeping you engaged and intrigued until the very last page. Those two attributes alone would qualify him as one of the better contemporary writers, but he is also a perceptive student of the human condition brining his penetrating analysis of human nature to bear on his characters. So many contemporary writers today end up disappointing. Connelly is an exception and that is why I eagerly await all of his books. This is one of his best and I heartily recommend it.
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Summary: Connelly is at the top of his game!
Review: Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch is in my opinion the best hard boiled detective series right along side with Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder. What makes these two series so great besides the obvious great characters and plot lines is that both authors can make the reader hang on to the simplest of tasks: a minor description, a passing thought. These books are to be read slowly and every word is to be savored. That in itself is a great accomplishmnet in todays quick and disposable society. I won't get into any details about the new book suffice to say that I read it in two days. If you are new to Connelly, there is not a bad book in the whole Bosch series. I'd suggest reading them in order. As a side if you haven't read any of the Matt Scudder novels, you are in for a similar treat.
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Summary: Masterful...A MUST read!
Review: Harry Bosch has given up his career as a detective, but when he agrees to investigate the suspicious death of a good friend he is thrust back into the world he was desperate to escape. Harry gets the call from Graciela McCaleb asking him to find out the truth surrounding her husband's death...it was ruled as a natural death, but Graciela knows differently. The official story was that Terry forgot to take his heart medicine, but Graciella knows he would NEVER forget to take his pills. Harry starts questioning everyone that was in contact with Terry over the last few days of his life and they all seem to say that he was always taking his pills, so how is it the medical report found no trace of his medicine? It becomes obvious to Harry that someone tampered with Terry's medicine. While Harry investigates what happened with Terry, FBI agent Rachel Walling, famous for working on the case of the serial killer known as "The Poet", gets the phone call she has dreaded for years, he's back and he's looking for her. Before long, Harry crosses paths with Rachel and the two must work together to stop a serial killer and find out the truth behind McCaleb's death. 'The Narrows' is another crime masterpiece by Michael Connelly, blending heart-racing suspense with stunning drama the book can't be put down once started. From page one readers will be entranced by a mystery that is both shocking and compelling. Very few authors are consistent with putting out quality titles in a series, and even fewer are good at juggling various series, but Connelly has done that and more...he has taken characters from several novels and combined them into this one and the result is not short of amazing. Expect to see 'The Narrows' on the top spot of all the bestseller lists. A MUST read! Nick Gonnella
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Summary: One of the best this year
Review: So far this year, my favorites have been "The Narrows" (this guy in a slump is better than most on a roll),"Sunset and Sawdust" by Joe Lansdale and newcomer Harry Shannons "Memorial Day (A Mick Callahan Novel)" because of the lead character. Still, Connolly's Harry Bosch is the industry standard at this point, the one to beat--and at this point the weary homicide detective is still danged near unbeatable. Don't miss a master at the height of his talents.
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Summary: Redemption for Bosch and readers a like
Review: The Narrows is the latest Harry Bosch novel and the follow up to the Poet. The Narrows is a novel of deception, intrigue, and mystery. I definitely liked this book a lot more than Lost Light, I just felt that in Lost Light when Bosch was a private investigator that there was something missing, the politics of the department wasn't there, Edgar and Kiz weren't really along for the ride, and the feeling wasn't there like his previous novels, Lost Light was a turning point in Boschs life, but The Narrows is a great step towards Harrys redemption back onto the force. I'd rate the Narrows definitely 10/10 as it had a great plot, characters, and story behind the novel.
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Summary: Redemption for Bosch and readers a like
Review: The Narrows is the latest Harry Bosch novel and the follow up to the Poet. The Narrows was a novel of deception, intrigue, and mystery. I definitely liked this book a lot more than Lost Light, I just felt that in Lost Light when Bosch was a private investigator that there was something missing, the politics of the department wasn't there, Edgar and Kiz weren't really along for the ride, and the feeling wasn't there like his previous novels, Lost Light was a turning point in Boschs life, but The Narrows is a great step towards Harrys redemption back onto the force. I'd rate the Narrows definitely 10/10 as it had a great plot, characters, and story behind the novel.
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Summary: The Best Only Gets Better
Review: Looking for proof that Michael Connelly is the best mystery novelist today? The Narrows is evidence enough. On a very simple level, this is a mystery novel about a serial killer, "The Poet," and at least 14 murders attributed to him in this current wave of mayhem. It's also about a complex ex-LAPD homicide detective, Harry Bosch, and a frustrated FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit reject agent, Rachel Walling. The characters are complex, conflicted, believable, and stretched beyond what is expected but not beyond the potential of each soul. Even the two major locations, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, are drawn with such intensity and multi-faceted power that they almost become characters in themselves. The plot is intricate, surprising, and challenging -- but ultimately so finely composed and exquisitely executed that even the final shock in the last few pages, while completely unsuspected, still resonates with complete authenticity and credibility. And underneath everthing beats the heart of Michael Connelly's mission: to describe the deadly dance between good and evil, a dance that comes within a hair's breadth of consuming both, but ends with hope. The book opens with the powerful intensity of the threat of evil: "I knew that my life's mission would always take me to the places where evil waits, to the places where the truth that I might find would be an ugly and horrible thing. And still I went without pause. And still I went, not being ready for the moment when evil would come from its waiting place. When it would grab at me like an animal and take me down into the black water." And it ends with the dawn of hope: "I looked out at the city and thought it was beautiful. The rain had cleaned the sky out and I could see all the way to the San Gabriels and the snow-covered peaks beyond. The air seemed to be as clean and pure as the air breathed by the Gabrielenos and the padres so many years before. I saw what they had seen in the place. It was the kind of day you felt you could build a future on." And in between is the best fiction anywhere.
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