The Washington Times published
my review of Michael Connelly’s crime novel Two Kinds of Truth.
In veteran crime writer
Michael Connelly’s previous novel, “The Late Show,” he introduced readers to a
new character, Renee Ballard, an LAPD detective working the night shift.
Although I enjoyed the novel
and found Renee Ballard to be an engaging and interesting character, I missed
reading about Mr. Connelly’s more well-known detective character, Harry Bosch.
Like many readers, I enjoy reading about old, familiar series characters and
their latest adventures in new novels.
In “Two Kinds of Truth,” Mr.
Connelly has brought back Harry Bosch. This is Mr. Connelly’s 20th novel about
the dedicated and dogged LAPD detective, whose personal credo is, “Everybody
counts or nobody counts.”
Mr. Connelly chose to write
the Harry Bosch series in real time, so his character has aged accordingly. In
“Two Kinds of Truth” the veteran detective is retired from the LAPD and is
lending his considerable talents and skills to the San Fernando Police Department,
where he is working as a volunteer on cold cases. As Mr. Connelly notes in the
novel, San Fernando is a Southern California city barely two and a half square
miles and surrounded on all sides by the city of Los Angeles.
“When Chief Valdez reached
out to Bosch and said he had an old jail cell full of cold cases and no one to
work them, it was like a lifeline had been thrown to a drowning man. Bosch was
alone and certainly adrift, having unceremoniously left the department he had
served for almost forty years, at the same time that his daughter left home for
college. Most of all, the offer came at a time when he felt unfinished. After
all the years he had put in, he never expected to walk out the door one day and
not be allowed back in,” Mr. Connelly writes. “At a period when most men took
up golf or bought a boat. Bosch felt resolutely incomplete. He was a closer. He
needed to work cases, and setting up shop as a private eye or defense
investigator wasn’t going to suit him in the long run.”
Harry Bosch is also asked by
the chief to help the San Fernando three-person detective squad investigate the
robbery and double-murder of father and son pharmacists. Concurrent with this
investigation, Harry Bosch looks back at an old LAPD case of his that has resurfaced.
You can read the rest of the review via the below link:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/14/book-review-two-kinds-of-truth-by-michael-connelly/
You can also read about the Amazon TV series featuring Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch character via the below link:
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