Book Review: Blood Work by Michael Connelly

I am addicted to Michael Connelly's work hook line and sinker. He has written two novels with the character Terry McCaleb and this one is the first of those.

Terry is a retired FBI criminal profiler who is contacted by the sister of donor of his heart, as he has recently had a heart transplant. The donor, Gloria was killed in an unsolved convenience store robbery. However, McCaleb is living on a boat quietly recuperating from his operation, he is not even allowed to drive.

However, he does agree to help the donor's sister Graciela but the police are not very cooperative. The mystery thickens when he is able to spot similarities to another killing and also that the call reporting the shooting was before the shooting took place.

He gets few leads but he too becomes a suspect to the police when it is noted that the two victims of the linked crimes both have the same blood group as McCaleb. He would benefit from their deaths. The police want to search his boat and the real killer starts to plant incriminating evidence on his boat too.

He manages to fend off the police but the clues point to the Code Killer who's case he had been working on for the FBI. The tracking down of the Code Killer is good and there are further twists to the plot when Graciela and her son are kidnapped too.

You feel for McCaleb as he is supposed to be recuperating from a very serious operation yet he is involved in a very stressful situation with a master criminal.

Great stuff and 9/10 from me.