Michael Connelly

The Black Echo (Harry Bosch)

Denaiir

This is hands down the best crime series I've ever read and re-reading this first volume I have to say, it's quite impressive how well-crafted it was from the very beginning. 
I've re-read this first book this month because they released the audiobook read by Titus Welliver, who plays Harry Bosch on the Amazon TV show, and it was an amazing experience. I just watched season 1 of the show and loved Wellliver's portrayal of Harry Bosch, and he was an excellent narrator. I hope the re-do the whole series with Welliver as the narrator, I will for sure listen to all of them if they do.
Harry Bosch feels so real, and from this very first book you realize that Connelly thought about his character for a long time. He has a rich background, Connelly distills hints about many themes that will be developed in later books (family, being part of the foster system, wanting to figure out what happened to his mother, butting heads with internal affairs, Harry's aversion for political moves, his relationships to women). It was already all there, yet it didn't feel crowded. Connelly is a master at working with plot, pacing, distilling clues, and making the reader guess. He is also the best author I've read in the procedural genre (his knowledge of the ins and outs of police procedure is astonishing). And Harry is my favorite cop ever. 
If you're interested, there's an excellent interview of Michael Connelly and Titus Welliver at the end of the audiobook, it was extremely interesting to hear their opinions on many aspects of the series.

In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the 'black box,' the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together.

The Black Box

Simon Lund Larsen

It's not the worst book from Connelly but it's certainly not the best. 

As a native Dane the Danish aspects of the book really bothered me. 

First of, the name of the victim Anneke is an extremely unusual name. Of a population of about 6 million people only about 50 living people in total are named that. 

Secondly, Connelly keeps refering to the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende as BT, but BT is an entirely separate newspaper in Denmark. 

That is just bad research on Connelly's part. Both things could have been fact checked in 5 minutes on Google.

BOOK 1 OF THE NATIONALLY BESTSELLING HARRY BOSCH SERIES, NOW A HIT TV SHOW! "Michael Connelly is the master of the universe in which he lives, and that is the sphere of crime thrillers." - Huffington Post For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.

The Black Echo

Amina Madadi (ⴰⵎⵉⵏⴰ)

I think I've found myself a new awesome detective!!
RTC!

The Black Ice (Harry Bosch)

Really good! After book 1 I found Harry to be not quite what I’d seen on TV but the characterisation in the second book is closer to what’s on screen. Am I a philistine for wanting the book to be like the tv series? Absolutely!

Ben Kraal

In this "superb" thriller, Detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to the unsolved killing of a young female photographer during the 1992 L.A. riots (Wall Street Journal). In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "black box," the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together. Riveting and relentlessly paced, The Black Box leads Harry Bosch, "one of the greats of crime fiction" (New York Daily News), into one of his most fraught and perilous cases.

Jeff Brown 

My favorite Bosch books are "Concrete Blonde" and "Trunk Music". "The Black Box" joins them. The setting starts in the 1992 riots in LA. A female Danish journalist is killed in an alley during the riots. As a cold case 20 years later, Bosch tries to figure out why she is in the U.S., and what really drew her to LA at this time. It was thought that she was following a war crimes investigation. It turns out it was for a very different reason. One of Connelly's best Bosch books in a while.

Shreerag Plakazhi

Whole bunch of cliches but well written nonetheless. Suspense was a little obvious but it may just be my general wide reading of the genre that prepared me for it. Good past time.

I appreciate a good thriller so much. Micheal Connelly, according to a dear bookish friend, is always reliable when it comes to delivering solid thrills. In Black Ice too, he delivers efficiently. Bosch is a seriously good character, so well written, as are most of the characters in the story. At no point did I feel like plot points were out of place or unrealistic. Connelly is clearly an observant man, looking to tell deeper stories through his preferred genre of crime. It's a great read when your brain is overworked from top of the line literature - it's a top of the line crime noir.

Francine Corry

Alex Watson

Cody Madden

Every bullet tells a story - Detective Harry Bosch searches for a killer who thinks he's been safe for twenty years. May 1992, and after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives, homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets, murder just got a whole lot easier--and investigating them got a whole lot harder. Escorted by national guard soldiers from murder scene to murder scene, Harry and his colleagues are only able to do the bare minimum in terms of collecting evidence. And for Harry that's not enough. When he finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley, he cannot accept that he will never be able to bring her killer to justice, and her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then, twenty years later, Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit, and suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again, in a way her could never have imagined.

Daisy <3

When a body is found in a hotel room, reporters are soon all over the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics detective, apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating Los Angeles from the Mexican cartel. The LAPD are quick to declare the death a suicide, but Harry Bosch is not so sure. There are odd mysteries and unexplained details from the crime scene which just don't add up. Fighting an attraction to the detective's widow, Bosch starts his own maverick investigation, which soon leads him over the borders and into a dangerous world of shifting identities, police politics and deadly corruption . . .

The Black Echo (Harry Bosch)

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