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Book log 2018 #8 - CRIME BEAT
Apr. 28th, 2018 07:45 pmCRIME BEAT by Michael Connelly
Not a novel this time – I'm a fan of his crime/detective novels – but a collection of his crime reportage from the late 80s and early 90s in Florida and LA. You can really see the seeds of the Harry Bosch series here (including a couple of plot bunnies that he then used for novels) as well as the evolution of his personal writing style that conveys characters in his books.
Being full of old crime reports it can be a wearing read, at the amount of nastiness in the world, but worth it. More of a downside is the fact that, because of the pieces cover cases through several reporting updates, there's a lot of repetition of basic details in some of them.
OTOH, some of the unsolved-at-the-time ones are so interesting that I may have to Google them and see if they've been solved in the dozen or so years since the book came out...
Interesting if you're a true crime fan, or a Connelly fan looking at his influences.
Not a novel this time – I'm a fan of his crime/detective novels – but a collection of his crime reportage from the late 80s and early 90s in Florida and LA. You can really see the seeds of the Harry Bosch series here (including a couple of plot bunnies that he then used for novels) as well as the evolution of his personal writing style that conveys characters in his books.
Being full of old crime reports it can be a wearing read, at the amount of nastiness in the world, but worth it. More of a downside is the fact that, because of the pieces cover cases through several reporting updates, there's a lot of repetition of basic details in some of them.
OTOH, some of the unsolved-at-the-time ones are so interesting that I may have to Google them and see if they've been solved in the dozen or so years since the book came out...
Interesting if you're a true crime fan, or a Connelly fan looking at his influences.
