Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, No. 5) by Michael Connelly Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, No. 5)
Book Review: Uneven pacing, still good
Summary: 3 Stars
This entry in the Harry Bosch series isn't the strongest, but it's still pretty good. It starts with a mob-style hit and leads to Las Vegas, where the story gets bungled up in typical mob drollery. Not until the feds and mobsters start falling off to the side and the second half of the book starts, does Trunk Music pick up steam and lead to an interesting conclusion.
Unlike the previous two books in the series, there isn't a lot of introspection and character building. Trunk Music, is a straight out cop book.
Book Review: Will Bosch know what to do with a happy ending?
Summary: 4 Stars
After the two previous books about LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, which were largely about Bosch himself and how he learns to deal with his past, this one is much more of a straight murder mystery procedural. It begins with Harry and his two partners opening the investigation on a sleezeball straight-to-video movie producer who is found shot in the trunk of his Rolls Royce in a clearing overlooking the Hollywood Bowl. (This is Bosch's first homicide case since being suspended eighteen months before and and then being demoted to the Hollywood burglary desk following his serious screw-up in the last book.) The killing has all the marks of a mob execution and it doesn't take long for the investigative team to work out that the producer had a lucrative money-laundering operation going. So why was he killed? Perhaps because the IRS was taking an interest. But who wrote the anonymous letter that put the feds on his trail? Off Bosch goes to Vegas and some boisterous interaction with local members of organized crime. But he also runs into Eleanor Wish, the FBI agent turned bank robber, from Black Echo, to whom Harry had unwisely lost his heart. She's out now, after five years in prison, and playing poker at the casinos for a living. And Harry finds his feelings about her really haven't changed. So he has that to deal with -- as well as a case that takes an abrupt left turn three-quarters of the way through the book, to the embarrassment of him, his partners, and his new lieutenant (the previous one having been tortured to death in the previous book). A case they all thought involved Vegas mobsters suddenly looks more like a domestic matter after all. This sudden shift could have been a bad narrative error, strategically speaking, but Connelly makes it work. In fact, Connelly is very good with complex plots in general, and this is one of his most complicated. But, as I say, everything hangs together and the little surprises that turn up in the last few dozen pages will have you nodding in agreement. And Harry even gets a more or less happy ending for once in his life.Book Review: trunk music
Summary: 5 Stars
The book was received in a reasonable amount of time. It was in excellent condition.