About this title: In a noir-ish contemporary Los Angeles, LAPD detective Harry Bosch searches for the murderer of a long-dead child whose bones have been found in Laurel Canyon. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780446611619ISBN:0446611611
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Harry Bosch (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Spine slightly curved from reading. Read one time only. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780446611619ISBN:0446611611
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, slight shelf wear to cover, light slant to book, stk #2308r9. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Harry Bosch (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780446611619ISBN:0446611611
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Harry Bosch (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Orion Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781407213156ISBN:1407213156
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing and cover wear. Sticker residue on back cover. A solid reading copy. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 410 p. (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 0842358099th edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780446611619ISBN:0446611611
Description: Very Good. 0446611611 Mass Market Paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and some shelf wea..._ read more
"Really good detective fiction. More than action it is about getting inside the head of a detective who tries to figure out how something went down. I like the experience of working through his thinking with him. He also gives voice to that part in all of us that wants to pursue the truth, or what we believe to be the truth, with a freedom from fear about authority and rules. Harry Bosch is a good kind of rogue. Fun reading on vacation or before bed."
"I listened to this book. The reader was rather bland which took away from the book. Every character in the book had basically the same "voice". Jerry Edgar, Bosch's partner sounded exactly like Bosch and so on. The storyline was not one of Connelly's best and I have to wonder why he wrote this book. I've read or listened to most of Connelly's Harry Bosch books and this is the weakest one. It received bad reviews on Audible.com because of the reader, Jay Fernandez. NOTE: At some point Len Cariou also narrated an edition. Audible.com did not have his version, which is no doubt better than the one I listened to.
My thinking is that the reader didn't help what is, essentially, an average book. I didn't hate it but except for the last several lines, it did not enrich Connelly's Harry Bosch. Those last lines are a set up for the next book in the series - Lost Light. I'm hoping Harry shows up refreshed and renewed in that one!"
"for some reason, the first time that i read this book, i didn't register it which is all right, because it is one i don't mind rereading because Harry Bosch is such a great character. Michael Connelly is so good at describing the crime scenes and the other scenes as well, so that you can just picture them.
it's somewhat surprising that none of the Harry Bosch novels have been filmed. It's harder to identify a victim, when all you have are the bones. For Harry and his partner, that's enough. A good plot."
"Another ho-hum entry in the Bosch series. It was interesting, though it seemed to drag in certain sections. The romantic element to the book seemed tacked onto the story just to pad it out, and it wasn't sufficiently resolved. Other than that, my affection for Harry Bosch as a character carried me through the book. The resolution to the case was somewhat anti-climatic."
Los Angeles Times Book Review, 04/07/2002 "Enough to say this is strong Connelly: well-plotted, lean and spare and more than a little sad, without the forced endings and heavy-handed symbolism that mar some of his earlier books. The search for truth leading to unintended consequences is a cautionary theme that has worked since Sophocles, and it works here."
Chicago Tribune Books, 05/05/2002 "CITY OF BONES is as bleak and angst-ridden as any of Bosch's outings, but it also sizzles with energy and a wealth of insider's details about police procedure and internal cop-shop politics." -- Dick Adler
Guardian (London), 04/07/2002 "Slick plotting, far-from-gratuitous thrills, a breakneck pace and superb characterisation have always typified Michael Connelly's novels about the dark side of California. CITY OF BONES, which sees the return of Detective Harry Bosch, proves no exception." -- Maxim Jakubowski
Washington Post, 04/28/2002 "[T]he story unfolds relentlessly. Connelly's prose has become leaner over the years, and his understanding of how cops work and think remains unsurpassed." -- Patrick Anderson
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