By JANET MASLIN, New York Times, Published: November 23, 2011
Michael Connelly begins “The Drop” as if it’s a work already in progress. Maybe that’s because there is always a Connelly project in progress, or so it seems. So far this year he has already published “The Fifth Witness” and welcomed the film version of his novel “The Lincoln Lawyer.” He also played himself in a couple of short films, one on the making of “The Lincoln Lawyer.” And these are only the parts of his life that have been well publicized. There’s no mistaking the fact that Mr. Connelly is a busy guy. 
Michael Connelly photo -Terrill Lee Lankford
THE DROP
By Michael Connelly
388 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $27.99.
His crowded schedule is not always beneficial to his fiction. But “The Drop” is one of those Harry Bosch books that starts with a bang and stays strong all the way through.
Harry, the character to whom Mr. Connelly most faithfully returns, has been around so long that his career with the Los Angeles Police Department truly is nearing its end. There have been quasi escapes for him before, but now the clock is really ticking. So when “The Drop” throws him an open 1989 sex-related murder case, Harry jumps at it. And when the accused, Clayton Pell, turns out to have been only 8 when a 19-year-old named Lily Price was murdered, his pulse truly quickens. This looks like a mistake. And if the DNA evidence from another killing wound up in Pell’s file, that might give Harry two mysteries to solve, not one. Away we go.
Full story at New York Times
My review from earlier in the week, and local publishing details here.
Harry, the character to whom Mr. Connelly most faithfully returns, has been around so long that his career with the Los Angeles Police Department truly is nearing its end. There have been quasi escapes for him before, but now the clock is really ticking. So when “The Drop” throws him an open 1989 sex-related murder case, Harry jumps at it. And when the accused, Clayton Pell, turns out to have been only 8 when a 19-year-old named Lily Price was murdered, his pulse truly quickens. This looks like a mistake. And if the DNA evidence from another killing wound up in Pell’s file, that might give Harry two mysteries to solve, not one. Away we go.
Full story at New York Times
My review from earlier in the week, and local publishing details here.
2 comments:
I've read no Connelly at all. In your opinion, Bookman, would going straight to reading The Drop work okay, or should a reader go to the first in the series (1992 I think)?
They stand alone Mark so I suggest you start with this one and if you enjoy it as much as I did then go back to the earlier ones and read them in order.
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