actually I'm reading it now; it will be available probably by Monday.

mystery; Harry Bosch series

Harry Bosch (whose series I've read in order now) was an LA homicide detective but now has a PI license and a desire to follow up old cases that were never solved. One of those happened four years ago, when a woman named Angella was found dead just outside of her apartment building. With seemingly no clues & little to go on, the case was eventually allowed to go cold, but Harry couldn't let it go. So it happens that another case that was his for a while, which involved a shooting/robbery of $2 million off of a movie shoot (the dumb director said real money was definitely required instead of fake) offers Harry some hope: Angela had been working on the set & had known about the $2 million. So off he goes to investigate & sets into motion a chain of events that led him (and me!) on a wild ride with no easy conclusion to the story.

I won't say more, but this is another fine example of Connolly's work on this series. His other stuff I don't like nearly as much as this book. The negatives of this story were that at times it was kind of sappy, which in a kind of hard-boiled world which Harry inhabits seems out of place. Otherwise, I thought the book was well done, very suspenseful, and full of possible suspects.

Recommended; I think to do it right you need to have read the series before it.

Released on Monday, August 16, 2004 at Simi Valley Friends of the Library sale room in Simi Valley, California USA.