since I first started reading him, I always had a sense that
Connelly was carrying Chandler's mantle, not for his prose
style, which countless others have self-consciously tried to
mimic, but instead for the profound sense of melancholy that
permeates the Harry Bosch stories, and the very specific use
of Los Angeles as character.
Bosch also, until recently was not a private eye, or written
in the 1st person. yet to me, Harry Bosch embodied the
persona of the tarnished knight more completely than most
others, and was completely contemporary in doing so.
now that Bosch is a 1st person PI, Connelly has made a
deliberate effort to get Bosch closer to his muse. not with
simile, but in his ruminations of the city and his place in
it, which is what prompted me to start this thread to begin
with.
all of that notwithstanding, the man is indeed a master
plotter and storyteller. many best selling authors can't
write their way out of a paperbag. Michael Connelly delivers
the goods.
John Lau
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