Colette
Bancroft at the Tampa Bay Times offers a piece on crime writer Michael Connelly
and his Amazon Prime Bosch series.
When
Season 5 of Amazon Prime Video’s longest-running series, Bosch, drops on
April 19, fans will see Harry Bosch as they’ve never seen him before.
“This
is something different,” Michael Connelly says, “Bosch with no badge.”
Connelly
is the author of a series — 21 and counting — of international bestsellers
about the Los Angeles homicide detective. He’s also deeply involved in the TV
series as an executive producer and writer, splitting time between homes in
L.A. and Tampa, and between the solitary practice of writing books and the
collaborative process of making television.
In
earlier seasons, Connelly says by phone from L.A., “we were mining earlier
books” for the TV series’ plot arcs. “This time we jumped all the way forward”
to the 2017 novel Two Kinds of Truth for the Season 5 story. (The first
five episodes were released to reviewers.)
In
the first scene of the opening episode, viewers will see a grubby and limping
Bosch (played by Titus Welliver) climbing off a cargo plane with a group of
dazed-looking street people. They’ve arrived in the middle of the night at a
scruffy campsite of old trailers and school buses, guarded by armed thugs.
“We
thought it worked well coming off of Season 4,” Connelly says of the scene.
“Bosch had lost his former wife, who he still had a thing for, and he was
teetering emotionally. People will wonder what happened” to get him to the
camp.
Two
Kinds of Truth, like all of Connelly’s books, weaves
together complex strands of plot. Its main strands are a new case involving a
violent ring of opioid dealers and an old murder case of Bosch’s that’s being
reviewed because of new evidence, which could threaten his career.
You
can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
You
can also read my Washington Times review of Two Kinds of Truth via the below
link:
And
you can read my interview with Michael Connelly via the below link:
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