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What Do We Do With a Problem Like Harry?

February 21, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Trigger warning: Child rape and pedophilia. So this was a pretty cool Bosch book. We have Harry trying to work two cases with his new partner David Chu who readers met in “Nine Dragons”. And Bosch acting like a jerk again (that’s becoming a theme). If you expect to get any back and forth with Bosch and his daughter Maddie in this one, you will be sad. Seriously, at this point Maddie is practically a pet that Bosch refers to but doesn’t seem to know […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Harry Bosch #17, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Drop

Classic's CBR9 Review No:63 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Harry Bosch #17, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Drop ·
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Bosch is an Ass in 9 Dragons

February 21, 2017 by Classic 8 Comments

Well this is one of my least favorite Bosch books. We get Bosch just bumbling from the beginning of this book to the end. We have Connelly get rid of two characters we have been following for a number of books now in completely (IMHO) stupid ways, and I don’t know, I think Bosch is just casually racist towards Chinese people. I also didn’t get a sense of Hong Kong at all while reading this book. I felt like Connelly watched “Knock Off” a few […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Harry Bosch #15, Michael Connelly, mystery, Nine Dragons

Classic's CBR9 Review No:62 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Harry Bosch #15, Michael Connelly, mystery, Nine Dragons ·
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Should Have Been a Short Story

February 13, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Eh. This was not my favorite Bosch. After a couple of home-runs with this series, this was definitely a disappointment. About half the length of his usual books, Connelly uses this to just show readers excerpts from his other books. I hit the finish line with this book at 74 percent I think. The remaining was just excerpts. This felt and reads more like a short story. We have so many plot holes I don’t even know which to begin with in “The Overlook.” It’s […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: crime, Harry Bosch #13, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Overlook

Classic's CBR9 Review No:54 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: crime, Harry Bosch #13, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Overlook ·
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Reckoning for Bosch

February 13, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

What can I say about Bosch at this point? This book gives you a great mystery, politics, and finally someone just calling out Harry for the crap he keeps pulling when it comes to always doing things his way and his whole damn the consequences thing. “Echo Park” is the 12th book in the Harry Bosch universe. With Harry now back working Open/Unsolved cases with his partner Kiz, he feels better than he has in a while. However, one of Harry’s past cases which has […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: crime, Echo Park, Harry Bosch #12, Michael Connelly, mystery

Classic's CBR9 Review No:53 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: crime, Echo Park, Harry Bosch #12, Michael Connelly, mystery ·
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Bosch Does It Again

February 8, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

So this was the last Harry Bosch book I read this past weekend. We have Harry reunited with Kiz and now they are both working in the Open/Unsolved Unit in the LAPD (think Cold Case). Kiz pulled some strings and got Harry back with her and now the former partners are teaming up to figure out who was behind the murder of a young 17 year old girl in 1988. This book has a little bit of everything. You have Harry finally happy again because […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Harry Bosch #11, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Closers

Classic's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Harry Bosch #11, Michael Connelly, mystery, The Closers ·
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Retirement is for the Birds

February 6, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

This book was grim. It looks at a post 9/11 world and how many will just make excuses in the name of keeping our country safe. It also shows how trying to do the right thing could leave you in a hole in the ground dead. Now that Bosch is no longer with the LAPD (read “City of Bones”) he is investigating a cold case that has haunted him for years. A young woman working on a film set was found dead and half naked […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Harry Bosch #9, Lost Light, Michael Connelly, mystery

Classic's CBR9 Review No:38 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Harry Bosch #9, Lost Light, Michael Connelly, mystery ·
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