Chasing the Dime - Michael Connelly

I was on holiday last year and had finished the books I'd taken with me to read. Fortunately, the place at which we were staying had a book loan/swap service. This allowed you leave any finished books there [no point carrying them home!] and to choose another in its place. Of course it means that you're choosing books that have, effectively, been chosen by someone else, but it's a good way of expanding your reading. I admit I'd never heard of Michael Connelly, but the plot summary seems interesting [though this can be a dangerous way to choose a book!!]. The main character is Henry Pierce, a computer engineer, whose company is working on a project ...  Read the complete review

Chasing the Dime is Michael Connelly's 12th novel, and is another stand alone book to not feature the award winning author's character Detective Harry Bosch. The Plot Henry Pierce is a scientist on the verge of a big discovery. Needing solitude to concentrate, he moves flat and inherits a new phone number. Soon, he receives phone calls from men asking for Lilly. Confused, he finds out that Lilly is in some kind of trouble, and is missing. Unable to resist a mystery, Pierce digs into the curious Lilly's life, and finds a sordid world of phone sex and dodgy websites, and ends up embroiled in something he wishes he hadn't bothered with, and neglecting ...  Read the complete review

On occasion you have to get a new phone number. Perhaps you have moved house, changed telephone companies or bought a new mobile phone with a new sim card. What you may not know is that the number you received is very rarely actually a new number. In fact this number was probably abandoned by someone else a few months ago and the telephone company have waited long enough to put it back into service. Therefore, there is an outside chance that someone from their past will ring you up by mistake. What would you do if this became an insistent problem? Even worse if it appears that the number is that of a call girl? You would phone up the telecommunications company ...  Read the complete review