Void Moon - Michael Connelly

Void Moon was recommended to me by my Dad and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Before becoming an author, Michael Connelly was a police reporter for the La Times which explains his obsession with this genre of writing. Void Moon is the 9th book from the author Michael Connelly. This is actually his third stand alone book as he usually write a series which follows Harry Bosch. Void Moon shows a different style of writing from Connelly as usually you read from the point of view of the detective but this book tells the story from the point of view of the criminal. The Story The main character in this book is Cassie Black who has served ...  Read the complete review

In this latest offering from Michael Connolly (who you ask? surely you've heard of him by now!), we are introduced to a new character in the shape of Cassie Black. She is an ex-thief who has just been released from jail and is now determined to make a change this time around and stick to the straight and narrow so to speak. Just in case you've been living in a cave for the last few years i'll give you a quick background on Michael Connelly. Before turning his pen to crime novels he was a police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, explaining his obsession with basing all of his novels in and around LA. He has to date won the Edgar award, the Nero ...  Read the complete review

Void Moon is the 9th book from award winning crime author Michael Connelly. It is his third stand alone novel to not feature his favoured character, Harry Bosch. The Plot Cassie Black is a thief. And she has been caught. Having served time in jail, she is released and vows to change her life to go on the straight and narrow. However, she comes across one last job that will set her up fo life, and she'ss never need to rob again. Things aren't always as easy as they seem ,however, as Cassie finds out when things go wrong and she is pursued by a killer who appears to know her every move. Cassie has things in her life she will do anything to protect, ...  Read the complete review

Cassie Black has returned to a profession that she thought she had left behind. She used to rob casino gamblers of their winnings. However, the new set-up is too good to ignore, until she comes across a mark with too much money and finds herself on run from a killer. Can she survive and will her most closely guarded secret be exposed? In this novel, Connelly works on the `baited hook` principle. He gives the readers some facts, but not all of them, leaving them guessing as to what has gone on. This would not be at all annoying if it was only done once or twice in the novel, yet here he chooses to do it almost all the way through. This can become rather ...  Read the complete review