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Title: City of Bones by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0-446-61161-1 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (144 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting conclusion (sort of) to the series
Comment: Michael Connelly has been doing these Harry Bosch novels for some years now. Bosch is the stereotypical detective, and if anything that's always been my one main objection to him: he's a bit too much of a stereotype, right down to the jazz on the stereo, the chain-smoking (though he did finally quit), the casual attitude towards superiors, and the dogged determination to clear every one of his cases.
The current book follows Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, as they look into what they at first imagine is a false alarm. A man walking his dog in the Hollywood Hills has let the dog run wild, and the pooch returned with a bone in his mouth, which the man thinks is human. This happens regularly, and the bone is usually from an animal, but this time the dog's owner happens to be a retired doctor, and he knows what he's talking about: it's human. Soon Harry and Jerry are working a twenty-year-old homicide, apparently a runaway who was killed, for what reason they don't know. They can't even make an identification. Then it turns out there's a convicted child molester on the street, and things begin to go sideways and get ugly at the same time.
Connelly has this sort of thing downpat now. The mystery's not the most surprising one he's done, and the plot is somewhat meandering, but the characterization of Bosch is well-done, and the other characters are interesting too. There are several strange twists in the plot, things that you weren't expecting, all of which aren't directly connected to the mystery of who killed the kid. The ending, which I won't reveal (though I guessed what was coming), is something of a mystery too, though the preview of his next book in the back told me where he was going to take things.
Anyway, I enjoyed this book, and would recommend it, though of course anyone reading something like this should first read some of the earlier books, so that they get some background on the characters in the story.
Rating: 5
Summary: very good....
Comment: I enjoyed this book, it kept me guessing. Connelly didnt give out a lot but gave you enough to wonder what was going to happen next. The books deals with peoples past and how we all have serects that we have to deal with. The life of an LAPD detective with all his twist and turns in about a week in this mans life, trying to solve a case. Over all it was a good book, I hope you enjoy it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Never judge a book by it's first 400 pages
Comment: I'll be succinct: damn the conclusion stunk.
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