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The Waiting by Michael Connelly
3.0

Always a hit or miss, this one is a miss...

Having read all of Connelly's books, I am amazed at how some are really good and some not so much. The Bosch series and the Ballard series both go up and down.

This one seems to be slower paced than some and it felt rushed at the end, like Connelly wasn't sure how to end it so he went with the easiest idea.

One of the aggravating things about his writing, and more so in this one, is his need to explain things. Anyone who has read police procedurals or watched crime shows knows most of how the police and investigations work. The one that got me in this book was his need to explain and describe in a full paragraph what a tire iron is. Really!!

i give this one 3 stars.