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“His eyes moved from the photo of Anneke Jespersen to some of the others. The ones he had not yet spoken for.”
DATELINE Los Angeles 1992: In the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict, Los Angeles is a lawless war zone. The city is on fire and the police are overwhelmed. Bosch found Anneke Jespersen, a journalist from Denmark, in an alley. It was clear that she had been shot at close range in a planned killing, executed in a murder that obviously had nothing to do with the race riots that were raging all around them. But overwhelmed is overwhelmed and when Bosch was re-assigned that night, the murder investigation fell off the rails and went nowhere. Then Bosch, now an investigator in the Open-Unsolved Unit was re-assigned the same murder 20 years later as a cold case. And he was determined to speak for the murder victim that he had failed to speak for twenty years earlier.
THE BLACK BOX is a first rate police procedural with nothing of the suspense thriller or psychological thriller about it at all. No twists, no turns, no red herrings, no surprise endings … just a purely linear masterful cold case plot that puts Bosch, his somewhat out-of-the-box investigative methods, his character, his perennial squabbles with police administration and city politics, his faltering hit-and-miss love life, and his struggle as an often absentee father to a teenage daughter front and center.
An easy-reading thoroughly enjoyable mystery from first page to last. Definitely recommended.
Paul Weiss
DATELINE Los Angeles 1992: In the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict, Los Angeles is a lawless war zone. The city is on fire and the police are overwhelmed. Bosch found Anneke Jespersen, a journalist from Denmark, in an alley. It was clear that she had been shot at close range in a planned killing, executed in a murder that obviously had nothing to do with the race riots that were raging all around them. But overwhelmed is overwhelmed and when Bosch was re-assigned that night, the murder investigation fell off the rails and went nowhere. Then Bosch, now an investigator in the Open-Unsolved Unit was re-assigned the same murder 20 years later as a cold case. And he was determined to speak for the murder victim that he had failed to speak for twenty years earlier.
THE BLACK BOX is a first rate police procedural with nothing of the suspense thriller or psychological thriller about it at all. No twists, no turns, no red herrings, no surprise endings … just a purely linear masterful cold case plot that puts Bosch, his somewhat out-of-the-box investigative methods, his character, his perennial squabbles with police administration and city politics, his faltering hit-and-miss love life, and his struggle as an often absentee father to a teenage daughter front and center.
An easy-reading thoroughly enjoyable mystery from first page to last. Definitely recommended.
Paul Weiss
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
My first Connelly. A compelling mystery thriller that became a bit too boys action hero for my liking. I’ll read more of these though.
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This story was pretty captivating. The narrator was fabulous and I really enjoyed the way the story unfolded. Bosch is probably one of my favorite male leads that I read in 2022! The way he worked to solve this case was pretty cool; however I wanted a little deeper look into his life with Maddy and Hannah
Compared to his other Harry Bosch books this one was lackluster. The character spent way too much time in his office and the story itself was dull. Sorry MC!
This book had me hooked in the beginning and was going great, but for the ending which had over-the-top action.
I was too immersed in the book, when Bosch started piecing together the evidences methodically. I love the police procedural and investigative techniques he uses.
I liked Maddie in this book (she had irritated me in 'The 9 dragons") . Though she is only 16, Bosch has now started grooming her to be a police officer.
What I didn't like, was his Superior's unwarranted meddling into Bosch's case. This is a recurring plot line in most of the series where Bosch and his superiors are at loggerheads. This doesn't help the plot in anyway and completely unnecessary.
After reading a few Haller books, I find Bosch a bit dull. His decision to go after the suspects alone in the end was foolish. All the action that followed was unbelievable.
Though my review is less than enthusiastic, I would still recommend this to all Michael Connelly fans. He just knows how to write and keeps the reader engaged.
I was too immersed in the book, when Bosch started piecing together the evidences methodically. I love the police procedural and investigative techniques he uses.
I liked Maddie in this book (she had irritated me in 'The 9 dragons") . Though she is only 16, Bosch has now started grooming her to be a police officer.
What I didn't like, was his Superior's unwarranted meddling into Bosch's case. This is a recurring plot line in most of the series where Bosch and his superiors are at loggerheads. This doesn't help the plot in anyway and completely unnecessary.
After reading a few Haller books, I find Bosch a bit dull. His decision to go after the suspects alone in the end was foolish. All the action that followed was unbelievable.
Though my review is less than enthusiastic, I would still recommend this to all Michael Connelly fans. He just knows how to write and keeps the reader engaged.
Another maverick Bosch case...another tale of Bosch defying authority and solving a cold case...with casualties in tow. As brilliant as ever..
