The story progresses nicely, the characters are real, and it keeps you guessing until the end.
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Even though I'm reading them out of order I'm loving the series, every time I pick one up I keep thinking its not going to get better but it does, can't wait to read more of this series.
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This is the third Connelly that I have read, and the first featuring Harry Bosch. I was really impressed, and this makes me want to pick up all the Bosch novels. It is moody and dark, with and well-drawn and well-developed characters. While Connelly's non-Bosch works were quite good, this genuinely approaches great. The story features drugs and corruption between Mexico and the LAPD. Bosch is a character who is a tough...
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Michael Connelly consistently delivers exciting hard-boiled police procedurals with Harry Bosch in control. In Black Ice Bosch is cut out of an investigation of an apparent suicide of narcotics officer Calexico Moore by the bigwigs of the department. They want to do what is pc and Bosch is definitely not that. At the same time Bosch's supervisor Pound feels compelled to increase the percentages of his homicides solved so...
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Michael Connelly's books are definitively within the "hard-boiled urban detective" genre that historically has been highlighted by the work of Raymond Chandler and other great mystery writers. *The Black Ice* is the second in a series of novels with LAPD detective Hieronymous Bosch as the protagonist (the first was *The Black Echo*), and it's definitely a winner. There's murder, intrigue, twists and turns in the plot, and...
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