Angel's Flight - Michael Connelly Reviews

Angel's Flight is a book in the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. Connelly is a great crime fiction writer and these books are all based in the Hollywood division of Los Angeles where the main character Bosch is a homicide detective after being demoted from the prestigous Robbery Homicide team. In this book Bosch finds himself ...  Read the complete review

Angels' Flight is award winning author Michael Connelly's eighth novel, and the sixth involving his character Detective Harry Bosch. The Plot On the eve of a big court case involving suspicions raised against the LAPD, high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found dead on a funicular leading up to Angel's Flight in LA. As ...  Read the complete review

Howard Elias has forged himself a hugely successful career representing clients in their civil actions against the police. There are not many policeman who have not had the daunting experience of facing Elias across a courtroom, when he sues Elias adopts the policy of naming everyone, from the cop on the beat, his superior officers, the chief of ...  Read the complete review

Michael Connelly is very popular at our library. It is a fight to get the next instalment of the cases of Harry Bosch. The novel Angels Flight follows Detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch as he attempts to solve the murders of top civil rights lawyer Howard Elias, and also-ran Catalina Perez. Bosch and his team have to work in a city where this ...  Read the complete review

I’m a reader – always have been always will be but sometimes I just don’t get the time to read as much as I would like! Then came the solution being a dual income household with only one car! The result is that I get the bus home from work and that’s about enough time to read 60 pages so a book takes nearly a week before I ...  Read the complete review

LA riots seem certain. Black lawyer Howard Elias forecast his death at the hands of a LA cop and now he's been brutally murdered. The public thinks a cop did it. The police chief also suspects the killer is one of his officers. The investigation has to be seen to be thorough. But they'd rather it didn't succeed or LA will go up in ...  Read the complete review

Unputdownable is an often used cliche. Judging by the bags under my eyes and the slight tracing of red around the whites, you will know that I spent last night with one of those cliches. Angel's flight is a brilliant thriller. It features Connelly's series character, Lieutenant Harry(Hieronymus) Bosch, a honest, tough, down to ...  Read the complete review