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Harry is on the old case squad partnering with Chu when he gets the chance to investigate a murder he was called out to during he LA riots. Many killings that night but this was a white foreign journalist so brass is not too happy that this is the one Bosch draws.
Harry goes up to a prison to interview an inmate because the murder weapon can be traced to him. and happens to visit girlfriend's (Hannah Stone) son. Brass puts pressure on him. Harry takes time off and finds the journalist's murder may have been related to Gulf War rape.
Sheriff Drummond did it. He had something on the four men that tied them to Anneke.
Harry's daughter living with him and is 16 or so (she can drive).
Harry goes up to a prison to interview an inmate because the murder weapon can be traced to him. and happens to visit girlfriend's (Hannah Stone) son. Brass puts pressure on him. Harry takes time off and finds the journalist's murder may have been related to Gulf War rape.
Sheriff Drummond did it. He had something on the four men that tied them to Anneke.
Harry's daughter living with him and is 16 or so (she can drive).
Harry Bosch is back working old unsolved cases and draws a case he worked on during the LA riots in 92. Good police detective book and it had a new term I had not heard of before when referring to women that made me laugh; 50/50, which means fifty years old and 50 lbs overweight. I probably know more guys that fit that description than women.
Good, not great. Not as much suspense in this one maybe because it was a cold case? Still a good solid book.
The Black Box by Michael Connelly is the newest and 18th book in the Harry Bosch Series. Having never read any of the Bosch series, I was unsure if I would be able to really get into this one. All of my uncertainties were proven unwarranted after about two chapters. From the beginning, I was hooked.
The Black Box refers to the device that investigators look for after a plane crashes. This box usually has all of the evidence that can tell investigators what went wrong and why the crash happened. In this novel, Detective Bosch is searching for that one piece of evidence that will crack a case that has been cold for 20 years.
The crime was the murder of a young foreign journalist who had come to America. Since her death occurred in the midst of the LA riots, the case was blown off. She seemed to have been a victim of the hostel world, not any specific killer. Well, for Bosch and his Unsolved Crime Unit, that did not seem to be a sufficient explanation.
Bosch very quickly begins to see connections in the case and is thrust into a world he did not expect. It is difficult to say much more without giving away too much about the book. I will just say that Connelly has not only written another heart racing novel, but he has written one that made me really think about many diverse topics after I turned that last page.
The Black Box refers to the device that investigators look for after a plane crashes. This box usually has all of the evidence that can tell investigators what went wrong and why the crash happened. In this novel, Detective Bosch is searching for that one piece of evidence that will crack a case that has been cold for 20 years.
The crime was the murder of a young foreign journalist who had come to America. Since her death occurred in the midst of the LA riots, the case was blown off. She seemed to have been a victim of the hostel world, not any specific killer. Well, for Bosch and his Unsolved Crime Unit, that did not seem to be a sufficient explanation.
Bosch very quickly begins to see connections in the case and is thrust into a world he did not expect. It is difficult to say much more without giving away too much about the book. I will just say that Connelly has not only written another heart racing novel, but he has written one that made me really think about many diverse topics after I turned that last page.
Great
Another great book to read, it is amazing how the author can produce such great and different stories consistently. A good read
Another great book to read, it is amazing how the author can produce such great and different stories consistently. A good read
During the LA Riots, a much younger Bosch encountered California National Guard truckers when they called in the discovery of a young woman's corpse. Lost in the shuffle of the riots, her death is reopened when the gun used in her murder resurfaces and kicks off an investigation reaching back to the First Gulf War, the timeless nature of war crimes and the insidious secrecy of bro buddies.
I'd give this book a solid 3 1/2 stars, even though it was fairly obvious from the start who the bad guy was. The end was a bit of a letdown as it was not entirely believable who it was that came to Harry's aid.
I liked this book. Bosch goes back to the LA Riots in 1992, which I recall very well. There a body is found in an alley off of Crenshaw, a street I know very well. He then goes back a year prior to that, during the first Gulf War.
Because the victim was murdered during the riots, at Crenshaw and 66th I believe, it was assumed by all, including Bosch, that it was a local gangster trying to get into the Rolling 60s, a gang that definitely does exist in South LA and has a reputation for extreme violence. (In grief group counseling in 2001 or 2002, the wife of a man who had been killed by this gang had forbidden her 13-year-old son, who had witnessed his father's murder, to talk to the police. This gang was too dangerous.)
So this familiarity is something I enjoy; it's a perk that Bosch is in LA. LA's home but it ain't mine no more...anyhow.
Turns out that line of investigation is useful, because it results in recovery of the murder weapon, but it does not expose the victim's killer. I'll save the rest of the story because you should read it. My only quibble is that Bosch is a renegade and a bit of an asshole and I guess I just wish he would operate inside the law and not be such a lone ranger about it.
Because the victim was murdered during the riots, at Crenshaw and 66th I believe, it was assumed by all, including Bosch, that it was a local gangster trying to get into the Rolling 60s, a gang that definitely does exist in South LA and has a reputation for extreme violence. (In grief group counseling in 2001 or 2002, the wife of a man who had been killed by this gang had forbidden her 13-year-old son, who had witnessed his father's murder, to talk to the police. This gang was too dangerous.)
So this familiarity is something I enjoy; it's a perk that Bosch is in LA. LA's home but it ain't mine no more...anyhow.
Turns out that line of investigation is useful, because it results in recovery of the murder weapon, but it does not expose the victim's killer. I'll save the rest of the story because you should read it. My only quibble is that Bosch is a renegade and a bit of an asshole and I guess I just wish he would operate inside the law and not be such a lone ranger about it.
It never ceases to amaze me how Michael Connelly achieves such a constant level of excellence with his writing in relation to the excellent Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch series. Let’s bear in mind that this is the 18th outing for Harry and it’s exactly twenty years since this stalwart of American detective fiction made his debut in ‘The Black Echo’, and yet Connelly unceasingly produces the most readable and stylistically perfect thrillers time after time, in marked difference to other authors of long running crime series who can only dream of this consistency. And I’m extremely pleased to say that ‘The Black Box’continues Connelly’s rich tradition…
The book opens with the LA Riots of 1992, sparked by the acquittal of four white police officers, cleared of the assault on Rodney King. As the violence escalates Bosch and his counterparts find themselves rushed from crime scene to crime scene under the protection of the National Guard, unable to devote time to each murder victim- the majority of whom end up as files in the Open Unsolved Unit where Bosch is now based. Bosch is haunted by one particular murder, that of a female Danish photo-journalist, Anneke Jesperson, shot at point blank range in an alley during one of those fateful nights, and re-opens the investigation into her death. Working on the assumption that every case has a ‘black box’- a key piece of evidence that will provide insight into a case- Bosch goes on the trail of the missing murder weapon and ends up embroiled in a far greater conspiracy and, of course, danger.
Once again Bosch is presented as a moral and focused police officer, evidenced by his interaction with Jesperson’s family and former colleagues and despite a totally bogus accusation on his professional behaviour by his immediate boss and the Professional Standards Bureau, Bosch displays his deep-seated tenacity that this case will be solved whatever the cost. Once again, Bosch is presented as a harbinger of morality, where the rights of the victim are at the forefront and the quest for justice paramount. On a personal level, there is a very nice examination of Bosch’s tentative relationship with his daughter Maddie and a real sense of them getting used to one another and this relationship strengthening over the course of the book. The plot is smooth and convincing and spirals outwards satisfactorily as Connelly introduces a conspiracy amongst military personnel linked to his original investigation and, despite the rather ‘Hollywood’ action thriller denouement, I enjoyed the way it played out thanks to the pacing and the compelling character of Bosch that outweighs the slight flaw in the ending.
Yet again Connelly has hit the ground running with another solid and engrossing addition to the Bosch canon, and this will be sure to please die-hard fans or those lucky enough to be picking up their first Bosch thriller. Definitely a page turner and an excellent read.
I actually really liked this one. It deals with a case that originated during the LA riots after the Rodney King verdict. Great storyline and well told.