![]() Apparently Burke also had trouble finding a publisher for his first book but his agent kept shopping it around and Burke was very thankful for his persistence. But that's what James Lee Burke, another of my favourite writers, says in the foreword to this book. It's hard to believe that Michael Connelly had a number of rejections before this book got published. I’ve never been to LA, but I could picture it and its people perfectly thanks to Connelly’s descriptions and dialogue.So, pretty good on all fronts. It gave you the sense that the setting was genuine. It’s a gradual and interesting decline to a conclusion that promises the possibility for good future sequels.I didn’t find anything especially fresh and new in Connelly’s voice or POV, although I thought his dialogue was excellent. It doesn’t just drop off and end suddenly. The book has a tense climax and really good falling action. I can’t point out a single thing wrong with the plot of this book - it’s tight. ![]() There’s plenty of action mixed in with important character development scenes and world-building. ![]() I think the beginning was a little slow, but I can overlook that given the quality of the book as a whole.Obviously, Connelly has been hugely successful with Harry Bosch (see: the number of books in the series), and I can understand why. ![]()
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