22 November 2011

Book Review: Suicide Run by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch Short Stories)


Three short stories from Michael Connelly that feature his main man detective Harry Bosch. The three stories are called: Suicide Run, Cielo Azul and One Dollar Jackpot.

The first of these stories, Suicide Run, I enjoyed as it was good to see something niggling at Harry for a case that seemed to be an open and shut suicide. His partner wanted to leave it there but something made Harry press on. An enjoyable quick read.

Cielo Azul was shorter and was not particularly a mystery, we knew who the killer was from the off. However the story concerns one of the drawbacks of Harry's job and it contained some human interest for me.

The last story was One Dollar Jackpot that concerned a murder of a woman in her car in her own driveway. Harry leads us through his theories about who killed her and we are shown how he proves his case. Dead end leads along the way and the evidence gathering.

Connelly is still a master and I cannot wait for the next one of his novels to be published. I will be in the Kindle queue on publication day for all of his new works.

8/10 for me for this one.

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