The Black Echo
is the first novel in the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly.
Harry Bosch is a homicide detective in the Hollywood division of the
Los Angeles Police Department. He gets a call on a Sunday morning
about a dead body on a pipe on the Mulholland Dam. Since he’s
on-call, Harry needs to respond to the call which most of the people
responding believe to be a a junkie overdosing on heroine. Harry
thinks things looks suspicious. After they get the body out of the
pipe and bout to put it into the coroner’s van, Harry gets a good
look at the face and recognizes the victim as a person that he served
with in the Vietnam War twenty years before that. After that, Harry
vows to set out to find what actually happened.
This
is a good story, but some the reader may be able to predict some of
the events well ahead of time. With that said, there are many
twists and humorous spots in the story. The book is very enjoyable.
If
interested in reading this book, you can purchase it in various
formats from the following sites:
Barnes
& Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-echo-michael-connelly/1100305768?ean=9781455550616#/
World
of Sleuths Rating: ****
(Four
out of five stars)
Harry Bosch is one of my favorite book sleuths. It's fun to think back to book one, when Bosch was a newly minted detective.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comments, Barb! This is the first time I've read anything written by Michel Connelly and I decided it was best to start at the beginning and slowly work my way through his books.
ReplyDeleteTim, this is the only Bosch book I have read too. I thought it was terrific and am bound and determined to get to The Black Ice before too long. I enjoyed your review!
ReplyDeleteChristine
Thank you for the comments, Christine! I checked this one out as an ebook from the library. I think they have The Black Ice in ebook format there also, but that will have to wait until after March since I am currently reading three books and then nex month I will be busy with my reads for March Mystery Madness.
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