The Narrows (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
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Author: Michael ConnellyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-02
ISBN: 0446699543
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: "Everybody counts or nobody counts."
Summary: 4 Stars
Connelly has developed this odd habit of killing off characters from his earlier books, even the major ones. In this case, it's Terry McCaleb, retired FBI profiler and heart transplant survivor, protagonist of _Blood Work_, who has died suddenly on his charter fishing boat, a victim of his new heart following the path of the old one. (Clint Eastwood went to the funeral.) Only his wife isn't at all sure that's what really happened, so she calls up retired LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, a friend of Terry's. (Like any successful detective, Bosch knows almost everyone in L.A. worth knowing.) Meanwhile, out in the Nevada desert, the FBI has begun excavating a body-dump site which they discover is the work of "The Poet" -- disappeared Special Agent Robert Backus, serial killer extraordinaire from the 1996 novel of the same name. (Connelly had always said he was never going to write a sequel to that one, but here it is.) And Backus has made sure the Bureau has had to bring in Agent Rachel Walling on the case from her bureaucratic exile in South Dakota (a recent promotion from North Dakota). Of course, Bosch being the sort of person he is, and Walling being the sort of person she is, it doesn't take long for their paths to cross and their independent investigations to merge -- or at least to politely hold hands. And as they follow the clues across the desert from L.A. to Vegas to a cut-rate Nevada brothel village, where's Backus? Look over your shoulders, people. It's a pretty good plot line with the characters and the style Connelly's fans have come to expect. And this time Harry also spending time in a flea-bitten Las Vegas residential motel (he doesn't want to allow himself to become too comfortable there) so he can be in his five-year-old daughter's life. (Eleanor Wish, the kid's mother and Harry's ex, is a successful professional gambler and she's not leaving Vegas.) And at the end of it all, Bosch decides he's going back to the LAPD to work on the cold case squad; he just can't deal with the lack of a badge any longer. By the way, Jack McEvoy, the reporter from The Poet, doesn't turn up this time, but Cassidy Black from Void Moon does, in an uncredited bit part on the neighboring balcony.
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