The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
Michael Connelly
Narcotics office Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together.Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the centre of a complex and deadly game - one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.
Publication Year: 2003
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0 0Michael Connelly’s LAPD Det. Harry Bosch feels like he strolled down the shelf from a Raymond Chandler novel. He’s a wounded paladin, a relentless searcher for truth in a world where truth is an afterthought. This detective covers the mean streets of contemporary Los Angeles, but he’d have been just as comfortable in the fedora and trench coat of an earlier age. Titus Welliver plays the character on tv today. Bogart could have played him in films eighty years ago.
So what, right? Another hard-boiled detective in a genre built from the archetype - big deal. As with so much genre fiction, the magic isn’t so much in the story as the telling. Connelly is a fine storyteller, giving life to his characters even as the plot’s tumblers click inevitably into place. I laughed, I thrilled, I lost track of time. I look forward to reading the next installment when next I’m in the mood for contemporary noir.
Recommended for: fans of mystery and detective fiction.
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