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The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde
Black Echo: Inaugural novel in the Harry Bosch series. I'd read it years ago when it first came out in French in the early 90's. I was very fuzzy about the plot. I kinda remember that the bad guy was someone from inside. Still I remembered the twist just before the last chapter. Harry Bosch becomes even better with age just like very good wine. His opening bow is full of angst and penned up anger. We kinda get an image of the man but he still have much, much to offer down the road. Connelly is a good storyteller, you get into the plot and see the action thru Harry's eyes. Black Echo passed the test of reread for me.The Black Ice : We find Harry Bosch still at the Hollywood division, still being ostracize by the LA PD brass. A narcotic's cop of the Hollywood division turns up dead in a motel room on Christmas night. Suicide, murder? The cop was under investigation by Internal Affairs. Bosch is on call but doesn't get called but shows up anyway at the crime scene. He knows the cop Calexio Moore somewhat from an on going investigations of a drug carrier Bosch is working on. Very soon Bosch turns up information the brass doesn't want to know about and that Bosch can't let go off. We end up following a trail of bodies all the way to the California/Mexico border where the past joins the present. It's a good, decent plot with compelling characters. I kinda didn't take on Sylvia (Moore's ex) but overall it was a good second novel with one or two hunches that in the end are logically explained.
