The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly

The Concrete Blonde is the third novel from award winning crime author Michael Connelly, and also the third to feature his character Detective Harry Bosch. The Plot Years previously, Harry Bosch was embroiled in a case featuring a serial killer nicknamed the Dollmaker. Bosch uncovered Norman Church as the serial killer, and then confronted him. Church reached for his pocket and Bosch assumed it was a gun, so fired, wounding Church fatally. Bringing the tale back to the present day, Bosch is in court defending his actions when confronting Church. The LAPD receive a note from someone claiming to be the Dollmaker, and the whole thing is wide ...

The concrete blonde Hieronymous Bosch – Harry to his friends, is the lead character in what is not surprising called the Harry Bosch mysteries. And according to the chronological order of publication “The Concrete Blonde” is number three! I first picked up Michael Connolly books by mistake and now I have read most of them. The story lines are excellently written and because he was a former police reporter you get a sense of factual input in terms of police behaviour and procedure! This makes the plot twists even more enthralling and all his books that I have read so far have been page turners! In addition this laso makes the character ...

This is the third book in Michael Connelly's series focusing on the maverick detective Harry "Hieronymous" Bosch, a rather flawed and refreshing character who doesnt conform to many stereotypes and has a wicked sense of humour. One of the few detective characters that is genuinely believable. The plot is set, as always, in and around Los Angeles, and as usual Harry has got himself into a bit of a pickle. On a previous case he caught up with a notorious serial killer they named "The Dollmaker", one of the most bizarre serail killers to emerge yet, in an apartment above a garage. But it all goes wrong and instead of it ...