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The man in the witness box was in his sixties and had white hair and a full beard that was oddly darker. Bosch had missed his swearing in and did not know his name. His physical appearance and professorial manner conjured the name Freud in Harry’s mind. Yeah. I read through it. I started when I got home from the funeral, then took it to you as soon as I finished.”
On the cases themselves; I don’t mind coincidence in crime fiction, but it does need to be coincidence with a cause, not because it’s convenient, and that’s the way this played out, with the Bosch/Ballard/Haller triangle forming a Bermuda of believability; it just didn’t work. The case connections were just too forced to add any real plausibility. They could make a good team, they are both interesting characters. Hopefully in future investigations Connelly won’t make Renée a female version of Harry; but let her evolve into a fully developed character of her own. The Night Fire is a 2019 crime novel by Michael Connelly. It is the 23rd novel featuring his most common protagonist, former LAPD cop Harry Bosch, and the third featuring his newest protagonist, present-day LAPD cop Renee Ballard. Chekhov's Gunman: Laurie Lee Wells, a juror, seen entering the courthouse right before Judge Montgomery. Dismissed by the cops because she didn't see or hear anything (she was listening to headphones). It turns out she's the murderer, and she isn't really Laurie Lee Wells.I may have been a bit lost since it was the first one I read in the series, but I did like most of the characters, and the writing is well done. Well, Judge, I don’t really think it would be fair for me to have to reveal defense strategy to the prosecution,” Haller said. “But I can say that my expert is at the top of the game in her specialty field of DNA analysis and that this will become apparent when she testifies tomorrow.”
Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein (April 13, 2020). "Review: How L.A.'s '60s movements fought for justice — and sometimes even achieved it". The Los Angeles Times. . "The '60s are remembered as a perfect storm of rebellion, but our memories are often shaped by repetitive archival news footage tattooed onto our brains. "Set the Night on Fire" fills in many blanks, focusing mostly on the movements emerging from South and East L.A. — the struggle for fair housing, the fight to integrate schools and jobs — while also excavating the forgotten core of L.A. resistance, illuminating those who often took life-risking steps to expose injustice." Haller asked Judge Falcone if he could replay this part of the taped interview conducted with Herstadt. Bosch had already seen the tape in its entirety because it had become public record after the prosecution introduced it in court and it was subsequently posted on the internet. Sequel Hook: The third Harry Bosch novel in a row to have one. At the very end Renee and Harry agree to investigate a case in Thompson's file, one Thompson and Bosch investigated: the unsolved murder of a female college student in 1982. And then Renee, working the Late Show has a case of a homeless man who has died when his tent caught fire and nobody saw anything. She can't leave it as an accident, determined to find out who did this and why. One thing I always like about Connelly’s books is he never pretends a detective would just have a single case. Even Harry in retirement has multiple balls in the air.You should have brought your witness in yesterday so that she would be available no matter how things progressed in the case.” Deputy Chief Brendan Sloan - Western Bureau Commander, Former Narcotics detective and Dorsey's handler (mentioned)
The translation, however, was clunky and took me out of the story too much. I had trouble following the intricacies of the dialogue and oftentimes didn't understand the turns of speech or train of thought. Ann's thoughts wander from the task at hand to random events that made her seem quirkier than I think she was supposed to. This led to some pretty dense, confusing paragraphs, and for that reason, I couldn't get into this story as much as I wanted. One of the main themes of the book is neo-Nazism and white supremacy groups who hate the recent Muslim immigrants. If you're uncomfortable reading characters who are obviously and unapologetically racist you may want to read elsewhere. Instead of the familiar sixties L.A. of surfers and show business, the book focuses on the millions of young people of color excluded from good schools and good jobs and their efforts to create a more equal and just city. [5] Chapter 10 - Ballard interviews Dennard Dorsey at Men's Central. He remembers being sent away from the alley on the day of Hilton's murder by Elvin Kidd Bosch noticed his repeated use of the defendant’s first name, a move calculated to humanize him in front of the jury.
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Kudos, Mr. Connelly, for another wonderful piece. You bring your stories and characters to life in these novels and I hope you have many more ideas in the near future. This is the eleventh book in the Ann Lindell series and the eighth to be translated to English for those of us (like me) who generally love Nordic noir.
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