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Book Review – Trunk Music, by Michael Connelly
Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Michael Connelly has done it again! Trunk Music, the 5th Harry Bosch novel, has everything that Connelly is famous for. Complex characters. An intricate plot. Setting as character. Twists and turns. Harry Bosch continues to grow as a hero, with all of his foibles and flaws. One of Connelly’s great strengths is his ability to provide half a dozen perfectly reasonable explanations for the same chain of events, getting the reader to buy into one of them before tearing it down and selling the reader on another. And another. And another! Don’t miss this book.
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Book Review – Dead End Girl, by L.T. Vargus and Tim McBain
Dead End Girl by L.T. VargusMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a quotidian account of a hunt for a serial killer, who dismembers his female victims, by two FBI agents and a host of police officers in rural Ohio. By and large, the writing was good, but the major flaw in the book was that it was much, much too long. Every minute of every day of the investigation is chronicled, sometimes from multiple POVs, and, as in real life, much of it is unnecessary or fruitless. It seems like the authors forgot the first principle of storytelling-leave out the uninteresting parts. For example, a memorial for one of the victims, conducted to lure the killer, was described in excruciating detail over several chapters. He didn’t show. There is a difference between suspense and reader frustration. The authors also left some plot points unresolved, notably, a romantic liaison between the main character and one of the police officers. Ultimately, I had to struggle to finish the book.
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