Do the Right Thing: Michael Connelly – “The Black Box”

Anneke Jespersen is a pretty Danish "journalist in the true sense of the word"* who is found murdered during the 1992 L.A. riots. "Snow White," is what she gets called at the crime scene, and Harry Bosch picks up on the nickname, too. It's a reflexive gesture that can be misconstrued as racist, and someone …

Fall Guy : Michael Connelly – “The Drop”

"Everybody counts, or nobody counts." Hyeronimus "Harry" Bosch has been living by his egalitarian code (and plugging jazz albums, and  investigating murders with the LAPD) for so many years now that talk of retirement was bound to come up. It does in 2011's "The Drop," the 15th Bosch novel by Michael Connelly. As the title suggests, …