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Title: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0-446-60727-4 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (129 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Once again, Connelly does not disappoint
Comment: This is my fourth Connelly book, and it's another winner. He writes mystery novels different than the rest of them, because there are no easy answers, and no cop is a superman. Detective Heironymus Bosch has been in many of Connelly's previous books, and this time he's investigating the murder of a high-profile black lawyer named Howard Elias, who was in the middle of a lawsuit against the LAPD. Needless to say, there are many people who would want Elias dead, several of them cops.
But for Michael Connelly, there are no easy answers. Red herrings abound in this story, and Bosch is further distracted by his relationship with his estranged wife. Add to that a murder case steeped in pedophilia, powers-that-be in the LAPD who want the case solved as quickly as possible, high-price internet callgirls, dirty cops...and you've got a complicated case that could spark inner-city riots if it's not solved to everyone's satisfaction.
If you like this book, I recommend the other Connelly books I've read..."Blood Work," "A Darkness More Than Night" and "Trunk Music." Connelly's work is gritty, realistic, and sometimes very funny. A fantastic writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Murder,mayhem,pedophiles, riots ,intrigue-it's all here!
Comment: This is the first Connelly book I have rated under 5 stars and I given much thought as to why, in my estimation, this is the case. The plot...the mystery...the ingenuity...everything is there.So what is missing? The Harry Bosch that I know and admire has changed.He is not the Harry I met in the tunnels of Vietnam in The Black Echo, and accompanied through Black Ice, Trunk Music, The Concrete Blonde and The Last Coyote. Although it is a magnificent read, somehow Michael has softened Harry and in doing so has lost his personality - has lost his ramrod features and his very nature. In my opinion, Connelly must get back on track and let Harry be Harry, and Michael be Michael. I read his story on his site (michaelconnelly.com), in which a man berates him, saying if he had children he would never write such graphic books about brutality etc., especially to children. And Michael says he did not understand until he had a child himself. I have children,and, of course, I would not want any evil to befall them, but that has nothing to do with what I read and where the real world is, where such things happen and where it is up to people like the old Bosch to make it right. I hope Michael will give us back the old Bosch in the next novel - the Bosch with the stregnth of character and yet the sweet,lonely vulnerability that made Bosch, the Bosch we know and admire. This is a book not to be missed, but one in which Michael misses the mark of the genius he has so wonderfully portrayed before.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best in the Bosch series
Comment: Angels Flight was one of the best in Connely's Harry Bosch series. You can't put this book down!
While the whole series up to this point has been excellent, I think this book is going to stand out for me, even after I read the last three, as one of the best (out of 9). This book just had the right combination of everything- suspense, murder, drama, intrigue, mystery, excitement and twists and turns.
In this book Bosch seems to come up against everything possible: fellow officers & law officials, his wife and close friend, a city on the edge of rioting, more than one murder to solve and one of the most powerful families in LA. Anyone who knows Harry knows he's capable of fighting anything though and winning. And any fan of Connely's knows his writing is far above the rest.
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Title: Trunk Music by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0312963297 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0312958455 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446667900 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Void Moon by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446609145 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: City of Bones by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0446611611 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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