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by Michael Connelly
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Une jeune femme blonde vient d'être découverte, coulé dans du béton. Quatre ans après l'enquête sur les meurtres du « Dollmaker », l'inspecteur Harry Bosch est traduit en justice. Une avocate arriviste et teigneuse l'accuse d'avoir tué un innocent, et non le serial killer qu'il croyait pourtant avoir identifié. Bosch commence à douter - inquiet et déterminé, il reprend l'e
Une jeune femme blonde vient d'être découverte, coulé dans du béton. Quatre ans après l'enquête sur les meurtres du « Dollmaker », l'inspecteur Harry Bosch est traduit en justice. Une avocate arriviste et teigneuse l'accuse d'avoir tué un innocent, et non le serial killer qu'il croyait pourtant avoir identifié. Bosch commence à douter - inquiet et déterminé, il reprend l'enquête depuis le début.
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Published
May 3rd 2012
by Points
(first published June 1st 1994)
2757829084
(ISBN13: 9782757829080 )
Harry Bosch #3 , Harry Bosch Universe #3
Los Angeles, California
(United States)
California
(United States)
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I'm not a big fan of novels about serial killers with distinctive M.O.'s who leave clues in notes sent to the lead detective, particularly when the supposed murderer has already been incarcerated or killed, and the possibility of a copycat--or an original injustice--emerges. Been there. Done that. Squared. But Connelly's novel is so well-plotted and so well-written and features such believable characters and such realistic glimpses into the police detective's world that I was completely won over
I'm not a big fan of novels about serial killers with distinctive M.O.'s who leave clues in notes sent to the lead detective, particularly when the supposed murderer has already been incarcerated or killed, and the possibility of a copycat--or an original injustice--emerges. Been there. Done that. Squared. But Connelly's novel is so well-plotted and so well-written and features such believable characters and such realistic glimpses into the police detective's world that I was completely won over. Connelly does it right.
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This was a wild ride. Connelly hit a home run on this one and ran in perfect stride. I enjoyed the first two books, but felt they needed tighter editing for a crisper story. This book had all that and more. I kept turning pages, loved the pace and I loved the action. Along with trying to find a killer who murdered numerous women, the side story included a courtroom drama where Bosch was accused of murdering the suspect in cold blood. Both storylines were great. As crusty as the Bosch character i
This was a wild ride. Connelly hit a home run on this one and ran in perfect stride. I enjoyed the first two books, but felt they needed tighter editing for a crisper story. This book had all that and more. I kept turning pages, loved the pace and I loved the action. Along with trying to find a killer who murdered numerous women, the side story included a courtroom drama where Bosch was accused of murdering the suspect in cold blood. Both storylines were great. As crusty as the Bosch character is, I enjoyed the fact Connelly let us into Bosch’s head and we could see that Bosch is a good guy and cares about justice. There was a love interest and thankfully, it wasn’t overdone. In my smugness I was certain I knew who the killer was. So certain. However I was wrong. But that’s ok because I was even more surprised by who the killer really was. This book diverges from the TV show, which I also LOVE. Recommended for crime lovers.
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In book three of the Harry Bosch series, Connelly finally hits his stride. The preceding two books frequently referenced the lethal shooting of a serial killer, a career-changer that resulted in Harry being transferred out of the glamorous (?!) Robbery-Homicide Division and into the hinterlands in Hollywood. In The Concrete Blonde, the case is being tried in a civil court. Harry's refused to plead or settle, and is making do with a lawyer from the D.A.'s office against a top-notch civil rights a
In book three of the Harry Bosch series, Connelly finally hits his stride. The preceding two books frequently referenced the lethal shooting of a serial killer, a career-changer that resulted in Harry being transferred out of the glamorous (?!) Robbery-Homicide Division and into the hinterlands in Hollywood. In The Concrete Blonde, the case is being tried in a civil court. Harry's refused to plead or settle, and is making do with a lawyer from the D.A.'s office against a top-notch civil rights attorney, Honey Chandler. The tale opens with the very scene where it all began, Bosch and a streetwalker informant watching the apartment of a man who is possibly The Dollmaker, a serial killer who rapes and kills his victims, and then garishly applies makeup to their faces. Segue into the courtroom, where Harry's trial is about to begin. During recess, he gets a call from his lieutenant, asking him to come to a homicide scene. They were led there by a note echoing the handwriting and style of The Dollmaker, and the information in the rhyme has led detectives to a woman buried in concrete. Harry is sure in his gut that he shot the right man, so is this the work of a copycat or is Harry wrong? It's an reasonably intriguing premise--aside from Harry's gut doing the detecting--made urgent by the trial. To add to the tension, it appears someone has leaked information to the prosecuting attorney, so it isn't long before Harry and his somewhat inept attorney are threatened with contempt of court. The back and forth from the courtroom to solving the mystery of the woman in concrete keep the pace moving. His relationship with Sylvia provides a counterpoint to the sordidness of the case and the trial. One of the strange things about the series for me is the 80s setting. It's so odd to think of a time of pagers and public telephones. In-time information isn't quite as much of a lynch pin in this case, so it's easier to ignore. There's a couple of red herrings, the first quite obvious, the second less so, but the law of character conservation holds. I will note that it's a relief for a mystery-thriller to not feel the need to explore the serial-killer POV. Although Connelly still has a rather flat, simplistic writing style, he seems to be improving stylistically, or at least allowing himself to drift away from the narrow confines of Harry's basic world-view. A couple of points was almost poetic, as Harry muses at various points about the nature of justice. "The lack of hospitality exists because the federal government does not want its courthouse to give even the appearance that justice may be slow, or nonexistent... There is enough of that going on across Spring Street in the County Criminal Courts building. Every day the benches in the hallways of every floor are clogged with those who wait. Mostly they are women and children, their husbands or fathers or lovers held in lockup. Mostly they are black or brown. Mostly the benches look like crowded life rafts--women and children first--with people pressed together and cast adrift, waiting, always waiting, to be found." A game changer for me as well. Fast-paced, I devoured it in one night. I'll definitely be moving on with the series.
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Four years ago, L. A. homicide detective, Harry Bosch, was part of a task force hunting a sadistic serial killer known as the Dollmaker. The killer preyed on vulnerable women and was blamed for taking the lives of eleven victims. Late one night, after the rest of the team had gone home, Bosch took a frantic call from a prostitute who said that she had just escaped from the Dollmaker. Harry assumed this was probably just another false lead and decided to meet the woman on his way home, without no
Four years ago, L. A. homicide detective, Harry Bosch, was part of a task force hunting a sadistic serial killer known as the Dollmaker. The killer preyed on vulnerable women and was blamed for taking the lives of eleven victims. Late one night, after the rest of the team had gone home, Bosch took a frantic call from a prostitute who said that she had just escaped from the Dollmaker. Harry assumed this was probably just another false lead and decided to meet the woman on his way home, without notifying anyone else. Upon meeting the victim, though, Bosch concluded that she was credible, especially when she led him back to the small apartment where she said the killer had held her. Through the window, Bosch could see a man moving about in the apartment. He thought about calling for backup, but realized that the Dollmaker might have already lured another victim into the apartment and that he might kill her before reinforcements could arrive. Accordingly, Bosch kicked in the door and found a naked man standing across the floor. Bosch ordered him to freeze, but instead the man reached under a pillow, as if going for a weapon. Bosch fired once, killing the man instantly. Then, lifting up the pillow, he saw that the man had been reaching for a toupee. Once Harry called it in, reinforcements arrived and found solid evidence linking the victim to nine of the eleven killings. The case was declared closed, and in spite of his role in bringing the case to a successful conclusion, Bosch was demoted from the elite Robbery-Homicide Division for failing to call for backup before entering the apartment. Now, four years later, the family of the man Bosch killed is suing him and the department, claiming that Bosch acted recklessly and without cause in shooting the man he believed to be the killer. The trial has barely begun, however, when a new victim is discovered--a blonde who had been killed and encased in concrete. The killing bears all the signature touches of the Dollmaker, but this victim has only been dead for two years. Is it possible after all, that Bosch shot an innocent man? Bosh insists that he did not, and that the new killer must be a copycat. The book thus proceeds along two tracks as Harry stands trial for his actions four years earlier while at the same time hunting a sadistic killer who may or may not have been the real Dollmaker all along. It's a riveting story on both fronts. The courtroom scenes are very well done and will appeal to readers who enjoy legal thrillers. Harry's adversary in court, a female attorney nicknamed "Money" Chandler is a great character in her own right. The hunt for the killer is also edge-of-your-seat stuff, and through it all, Harry is forced to examine the deep, inner darkness of his own soul. All in all, a very solid early entry in a great series.
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As research for a novel I'm writing, I've been reading detective fiction and stealing everything of value. My story takes place in L.A. of the early '90s and burgling Michael Connelly turned out to be a bonanza. Not only has Connelly written 22 Harry Bosch novels--basis for the Amazon series Bosch , which in its sixth season, combines one or more books, updated to present day, per season--but the literary Harry Bosch, LAPD homicide detective, begins in Los Angeles of the early '90s. I jumped over
As research for a novel I'm writing, I've been reading detective fiction and stealing everything of value. My story takes place in L.A. of the early '90s and burgling Michael Connelly turned out to be a bonanza. Not only has Connelly written 22 Harry Bosch novels--basis for the Amazon series Bosch , which in its sixth season, combines one or more books, updated to present day, per season--but the literary Harry Bosch, LAPD homicide detective, begins in Los Angeles of the early '90s. I jumped over the second Bosch novel The Black Ice for the third, The Concrete Blonde , which is set exclusively in L.A. Publish date: June 1, 1994 Story: Detective Harry Bosch is being sued in U.S. District Court by the widow of Norman Church, an aerospace worker who Bosch shot while investigating the Dollmaker serial murders which preceded the first novel. The widow is represented by civil rights attorney Honey Chandler, a feared trial lawyer who looks poised to destroy Bosch's city-appointed defense attorney even before new developments in the Dollmaker case. The police receive a note similar to the ones of the Dollmaker's killing spree which directs them to the ashes of a pool hall on Hollywood and Western, burned to the ground in the L.A. Riots the year previous. Police find a remains of a woman entombed in concrete, strangled and presented in the same manner of the Dollmaker killings, suggesting that Bosch might have shot the wrong man. While his defense is getting pounded in civil court, Bosch begins making inquiries that lead him to discover the victim's identity, an adult film player and prostitute who went missing three years ago. Bosch's work land him a spot in the Robbery-Homicide Division task force which presumes that two of the victims attributed to the Dollmaker were actually the work of a copycat they dub the Follower, whose expertise with the investigation suggests he could be another cop and is still out there. L.A. scenery : Much of the novel takes place in the U.S. District Courthouse in downtown L.A. as Bosch and the LAPD are sued for damages. Bosch still lives up on Mulholland Drive in his small house dangling over the Hollywood Hills. His investigation briefly takes him to the San Fernando Valley to a mob-operated adult videostore, the home of a psychologist on Lookout Mountain Drive in Laurel Canyon and to North Hollywood in a sleazy area where prostitutes can work a day shift. 1990s nostalgia: Who remembers VCRs and videostores? Both play key roles in Bosch unraveling the mystery. You see, it used to be when you watched physical media, it was on a reel to reel product encased in plastic called a "videotape." Some people recording video on their phones still refer to what they're doing as "taping," even though there's no tape inside our phones. To identify a murder victim, Bosch can't use the Internet or Pornhub, but has to visit an adult videostore to browse videotape boxes. Most adult videostores were not operated by the mob. Connelly just throws that in here for added tension. Opening paragraph: There are no benches in the hallways of the U.S. District Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. No place to sit. Anybody who slides down the wall to sit on the cold marble floor will get rousted by the first deputy marshal who walks by. And the marshals are always out in the halls, walking by. Title in text: His mind wandered to the statue at the courthouse steps. He still couldn't think of her name. A concrete blonde , Chandler had called her. Bosch wondered what Chandler had thought about justice at the end. At her end. He knew there was no justice without hope. Did she still have any left at the end? He believed that she did. Like the pure blue flame dimming to nothing, it was still there. Still hot. It was what allowed her to beat Bremmer. Select prose: Terry Lloyd took the witness stand like a man who was as familiar with it as the recliner chair he got drunk in every night in front of the TV set. He even adjusted the microphone in front of him without any help from the clerk. Lloyd had a drinker's badge of a nose and unusually dark brown hair for a man his age, which was pushing sixty. That was because it was obvious to everyone who looked at him, except maybe himself, that he wore a rug. Chandler went through some preliminary questions, establishing that he was a lieutenant in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. Closing paragraph: "I didn't know, Sylvia," he said. "I hoped." Thoughts: I've seen every variation on the "stop the psycho" genre but was tremendously impressed by The Concrete Blonde . Good band, better book. I think the Bosch novels are too long, but the detail on civil court proceedings or the RHD make this much more than another "stop the psycho" variation and I appreciated that. Because I'm drawn to whatever female character is in a book, I also loved what Connelly did with Honey Chandler. She could've been written as a bad guy or everything corrupt with the legal system and though Bosch gets his editorial asides in at the expense of the system, he respects Chandler's game. Amid Connelly's voluminous research, there's Bosch and I felt a strong sense of wanting to see him solve the mystery. Word count: 176,702 words
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I'm giving this five stars because I totally raced through it and enjoyed every minute! Harry Bosch is a really captivating main character who always manages to rise above his problems - just. Much of this book takes place in a court room which is a setting I normally do not much enjoy. However this was written so well that even I got drawn in to the awfulness of the process of law. The ending was a t
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Blonde excitante veut de la bite et du lait pour payer ses dettes