Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, No. 5)
by Michael Connelly
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Author: Michael ConnellyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN: 0446198196
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446198196
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Book Reviews of Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, No. 5)
Book Review: Tightly Plotted, Full of Twists and Turns
Summary: 5 Stars
"Trunk Music," an early novel by American mystery author Michael Connelly, is the fifth of the writer's Harry Bosch detective series that now numbers fourteen published works. That is, if you don't count in The Brass Verdict, a recent bestselling Mickey Haller-Harry Bosch novel. The series, Los Angeles-set police procedurals, looks at life on the "noir" side; Connelly is a former journalist, a crime beat writer for the Los Angeles Times, who certainly earned his spurs in murder while earning his daily bread. His recent standalones, The Scarecrow, "Brass Verdict," and The Scarecrow, have all been #1 New York Times Bestsellers. Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers, a non-fiction collection of his journalism, was also a New York Times bestseller, as most of his previous standalones have been, too.
Connelly is a wonderful writer, my favorite among American mystery authors, and I've read all his books save "Scarecrow." (Like many other readers, I imagine, I prefer his series works to his standalones: like many other writers, his mysteries seem more powerful if they are filtered through the sensibilities of his detective protagonist.) At any rate, Connelly's plots drive like Mack trucks; furthermore, they are usually fresh, tight, riveting, complex. His narrative and descriptive writing is terse and witty, informed by his deep, accurate knowledge of police work, after several years on the cop shop beat. His dialog snaps. He explicates his love of jazz as he goes. And his mise en scene writing: well, it's heartfelt, written by a man in love with a city, and it's so precise that a stranger could find his way around LA with a few of his books as guides. His books clearly follow in the footsteps of earlier outstanding hardboiled Los Angeles authors Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, but add the further ingredients of a police procedural, as they chart the career of Connelly's creation, LAPD Detective Bosch, assigned to Hollywood Homicide.
"Trunk Music," opens with Bosch coming back after a suspension: the first case he catches is that of Tony Aliso, Hollywood producer, found shot dead, execution style, in the trunk of his Rolls Royce Silver Cloud on Mulholland Drive. (The mob, whom everybody suspects of the murder, would describe it as a guy listening to trunk music.) Bosch just about proves it was a mob hit, I certainly believed him; then the detective realizes it can't have been. He comes up with another theory, that I again believed; he then demolishes that one too. The third proves the charm. The book also reintroduces Eleanor Wish, back from the "Black" books after losing her job with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for misconduct on the job, and going to jail. And it's unusually titillating for the serious Connelly, taking a guided tour through the sexual mores of the time. The book just has to be considered a "tour de force," that is, the author showing off a bit, he's so good. Furthermore, it is unusually resonant, and emotionally powerful, for the author, as it centers on the most important relationship known to man, that of mother and child.
If you've come to Connelly through his newer books, you really owe yourself this early one. It sets a benchmark he -- or anyone else--will not easily reach again.
Summary of Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, No. 5)
Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge. But his first case is a little more than he bargained for.It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit. But the LAPD's organized crime unit is curiously uninterested, and when Harry follows a trail of gambling debts to Las Vegas, the case suddenly becomes more complex - and much more personal.
A rekindled romance with an old girlfriend opens new perspectives on the murder, and he begins to glimpse a shocking triangle of corruption and collusion. Yanked off the case, Harry himself is soon the one being investigated. But only a bullet can stop Harry when he's searching for the truth . . .
LAPD Homicide detective Bosch is back from an involuntary administrative leave just in time for the bodies to start turning up. When he finds hints of an mob hit but can't interest the organized crime unit in the murder, Bosch has to take the investigation into his own hands in a this hard-boiled tale full of sharp turns. Fans of Michael Connelly's excellent, The Poet, will go wild for this even better addition to the Harry Bosch series.
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