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Angels Flight (Harry Bosch #6)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry...more
Paperback, 454 pages
Published
January 1st 2000
by Grand Central Publishing
(first published 1998)
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Race is an issue in this great mystery
Read by Dick Hill
Duration: 10 hours, 55 minutes.
Angels Flight , an early installment in the Harry Bosch series, is as good as the rest in the series meaning, at least in my mind, it is a proud member of one of the best set of detective novels currently being produced.
Michael Connelly's books are usually deep and gritty and this one is no different. The lead character is Harry Bosch, the leader of a 3 detective team in the LAPD that is assigned an unusually s...more
Read by Dick Hill
Duration: 10 hours, 55 minutes.
Angels Flight , an early installment in the Harry Bosch series, is as good as the rest in the series meaning, at least in my mind, it is a proud member of one of the best set of detective novels currently being produced.
Michael Connelly's books are usually deep and gritty and this one is no different. The lead character is Harry Bosch, the leader of a 3 detective team in the LAPD that is assigned an unusually s...more
Just what you'd come to expect from Michael Connelly--intelligent detection, an insistence on the part of his hero on the facts leading where they will, plausible plots. The detective, Harry Bosch, is, alas, human, and the reader gets to see and sadly realize how certain bad turns might, repeat might, have been prevented had the investigator, already brilliant, had he been even more smart, more aware. Looking back, the reader is allowed to see, to imagine, how things might have been improved. Th...more
6th in the Harry Bosch series.[return][return]LAPD stress levels being what they are, naturally Harry� s one-year old marriage is on the rocks. To distract him from his personal woes, he and his team are called in to lead the investigation of a high-profile black lawyer-activist whose main claim to fame has been suing members of the LAPD for civil rights violations in investigations against racial minorities� and winning. His latest case, about to go to court, involves the alleged torture and wr...more
I haven't read the other books that precede this one, but that didn't make it hard for me to follow this book. It is a typical who done it type story, but is not predictable every step of the way nor does it reveal anything too early. The pace of the book is relatively quick, but does not hinder the story telling and makes for a smooth read. The characters are enjoyable, but having not read the other 5 books I will reserve any further judgement of the characters. I like the constant struggle bet...more
I enjoyed reading Angels Flight because when I was a little girl every time that we would drive to our Aunts house we would pass it. My sister and I would plead with our parents to stop there as there was always a little organ grinder with a darling monkey who hung out at the base of the hill. When our parents would stop we would run to the the organ grinder and watch while he would play his song. Once the song was over the little monkey would race around to each person who was watching and hold...more
Main character Harry Bosch says, "I don't like politics,...I just like putting cases together." However, a good deal of the tension and blockades in these stories are about the politics. In this story, a well-known activist lawyer who is suing several policemen on behalf of a black man alleging police brutality is murdered on Angels Flight, a cute L.A. trolley. The higher ups are trying to placate the city on the verge of racial riots and also kowtowing to the rich parents of a small girl who ha...more
Time saver tip: if you've read my review of any Harry Bosch book, you've read 'em all. Since I don't reveal plots and reserve my comments to the overall book/author, characterization, style, etc...I just don't feel the need to repeat myself as in most cases series books if any good at all do remain consistent. The star ratings might change, but not my opinion of the series as a whole.
Michael Connelly is a well know and very popular author in the mystery/detective and police procedural genres. E...more
Michael Connelly is a well know and very popular author in the mystery/detective and police procedural genres. E...more
This is a reread. I read Angels Flight years ago. This version, I listened to mostly on my commute to work. Connelly wrote this book in the wake of the Rodney King riots, the Simpson trial, and alleged misconduct in the LA police department and its impact on the department, with Harry Bosch opining eloquently. Harry has cause to rethink many of his preconceived ideas throughout this case. The victim is a highly visible black attorney named Elias murdered on the Angel Flight trolley along with an...more
This the second Michael Connelly book that I’ve read and I’ve enjoyed both of them. Both were quick, easy reads. In this case, I bought the book at the Albany airport on a Tuesday afternoon and finished up on Wednesday afternoon. It took about 24 hours, with time out for sleeping and work.
This book is more than a tad formulaic. A hard-bitten cop with a failing marriage. A corrupt police department. The murder of a prominent citizen. Another case, several years old, involving a powerful local fa...more
This book is more than a tad formulaic. A hard-bitten cop with a failing marriage. A corrupt police department. The murder of a prominent citizen. Another case, several years old, involving a powerful local fa...more
I’m really enjoying this series. Smart stuff. Engaging all the way through.
STORY BRIEF:
Elias is a black attorney who is famous for winning lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Dept. He was shot and killed. The public believes the killer is a police officer. Authorities fear race riots in the streets. A large task force is assembled to investigate the crime as quickly as possible. Bosch and FBI agent Lindel are in charge and divide the duties. Bosch investigates mysteries concerning the trial...more
STORY BRIEF:
Elias is a black attorney who is famous for winning lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Dept. He was shot and killed. The public believes the killer is a police officer. Authorities fear race riots in the streets. A large task force is assembled to investigate the crime as quickly as possible. Bosch and FBI agent Lindel are in charge and divide the duties. Bosch investigates mysteries concerning the trial...more
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This is a review of not just the 6th book, but a general comment about the series to this point.
Warning: Just about a month after reading the first of the Harry Bosch series, my wife and I are now both well into the 7th book. It's like trying to watch just one episode of 24 when you have the entire series on DVD, you can't do it; just have to keep going! :)
The more of these I read, the more I wonder how much this series influenced the last decade of TV drama series. This series is in the must re...more
Warning: Just about a month after reading the first of the Harry Bosch series, my wife and I are now both well into the 7th book. It's like trying to watch just one episode of 24 when you have the entire series on DVD, you can't do it; just have to keep going! :)
The more of these I read, the more I wonder how much this series influenced the last decade of TV drama series. This series is in the must re...more
When civil rights activist and attorney Howard Elias is murdered, Harry Bosch and his team are called in to investigate. The murder doesn’t take place in their division and should be investigated by Robbery Homicide, but because Elias has brought charges against almost all of the Robber Homicide detectives at some time, Bosch becomes the chosen investigator. However, Bosch and his team will also be paired with Internal Affairs detectives led by Chastain with whom Bosch has a negative history.
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Wonder how Harry got so cynical, so lonely, so determined? Angels Flight answers all those questions, and more. Called out upon the discovery of the murder of an anti-cop lawyer, he immediately fears that a cop committed the crime. In the post OJ climate of LA, the chief demands a politically correct outcome to this investigation. But Harry has a conscience, and the outrages that occur as he works the scene and the records, threaten to undermine his willingness, and ability, to work within the s...more
‘Whether you like it or not, you have been assigned to this case.’
When the body of Howard Elias, a high profile black lawyer, is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight in downtown Los Angeles, no detective in the city wants to touch the case. Elias specialises in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism and corruption and every LAPD cop is a potential suspect in his murder. The atmosphere in Los Angeles is tense: racial distrust and recriminations against the police are part of the lega...more
When the body of Howard Elias, a high profile black lawyer, is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight in downtown Los Angeles, no detective in the city wants to touch the case. Elias specialises in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism and corruption and every LAPD cop is a potential suspect in his murder. The atmosphere in Los Angeles is tense: racial distrust and recriminations against the police are part of the lega...more
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Michael Connelly is among my favorite writers, but Angels Flight is not one of his better works.
Angels Flight follows the efforts of L.A> Detective Harry Bosch as he leads a desperate effort to solve the exceptionally brutal murder of a Johnnie Cochran-like civil rights attorney.
The novel takes place a few years after the O.J. trial and all of Los Angeles is primed and ready to go up like kindling. The story has all the right characters, the dirty cops, the Sharpton-style reverend, the racis...more
Angels Flight follows the efforts of L.A> Detective Harry Bosch as he leads a desperate effort to solve the exceptionally brutal murder of a Johnnie Cochran-like civil rights attorney.
The novel takes place a few years after the O.J. trial and all of Los Angeles is primed and ready to go up like kindling. The story has all the right characters, the dirty cops, the Sharpton-style reverend, the racis...more
Angels Flight by Michael Connelly was the first crime book I ever read and was actually what got me into the genre, so I am REALLY grateful I came across this book. Oddly enough, the guy I was dating at the time was working recycling and someone had put out a whole bunch of books to recycle and he brought them home to me to see if there would be any I would like to read (don't worry they were just in a recycling box, there was nothing wrong with them they were just read that was all) and this bo...more
Jan 28, 2012
Sara
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
mystery, fiction, contemporary, thriller, detective
Remarkable, intelligent, riveting
A Detective Bosch novel.
A prominent attorney is murdered and no cop wants to take the case as it will bring too much heat down on them. Bosch is called in the middle of the night to work the case, which he instantly knows will bring chaos and conflicts to the streets in LA. Bosch is smart and incredibly capable and trusting of his team. The problem is that he is assigned additional team members he doesn’t trust and all the while his boss is screaming for results....more
A Detective Bosch novel.
A prominent attorney is murdered and no cop wants to take the case as it will bring too much heat down on them. Bosch is called in the middle of the night to work the case, which he instantly knows will bring chaos and conflicts to the streets in LA. Bosch is smart and incredibly capable and trusting of his team. The problem is that he is assigned additional team members he doesn’t trust and all the while his boss is screaming for results....more
Jul 11, 2011
Melissa
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
law-and-order,
suspense
Oh, I like. This was a true law and order type story. I've been reading a lot of the Jake Reacher and they have a military bent to them and yes, they are mysteries, but this was a true copy story. I very much enjoyed it. I'm not sure if it was just the shift in author and therefore, a new way of writing and style of story telling but I liked it a lot. Harry Bosch and his team are pulled in to investigate the murder of a defense attorney who is at war with the LAPD. He has made his name suing the...more
An important civil rights lawyer has just been shot in cold blood on the verge on one of the biggest cases of his career. Harry Bosch, the title character of the Harry Bosch novels, has been pulled out of rotation in order to solve this murder. Police brutality, race, and pedophilia are all examined in this novel.
This was a slow read for me, taking about a week and a half. It started off sort of interesting and then I kind of faltered until one piece of the string is unraveled. I was not expect...more
This was a slow read for me, taking about a week and a half. It started off sort of interesting and then I kind of faltered until one piece of the string is unraveled. I was not expect...more
# 6 in the Harry Bosch series. One of Michael Connelly's better ones in the Bosch series. The story starts with the murder of a prominent civil rights attorney in a LA trolley called Angels Flight. The attorney Howard Elias and a woman were found shot to death on the trolley. Harry and his partners Edgar and Rider are called in to an area where another department usually covers. Being that the other squad is involved in a lawsuit with Elias they are also considered suspects. The background from...more
Michael Connelly sure knows how to keep his readers entertained and "Angels Flight" was definitely entertaining. When a civil rights lawyer ends up murdered along with an innocent bystander on Angels Flight Friday night shortly before 11 PM, Harry Bosch and his team is called to the scene in the middle of the night~they are told by the deputy chief of police that this case must be kept under wraps of the media and worked as if it was solved yesterday. The lawyer, Howard Elias, was ready to go to...more
Well, I'm stingy with 5 stars, but I've want to give more than four on his others, so five it is. Intricate, authentic, well-defined characters and, as always, Harry on the side of the angels although the higher-ups don't see it that way.
Always on the edge of disobedience and ignoring orders and often over the line with both feet. Starts with the murder of a much-despised black lawyer who makes big bucks suing LAPD for various "infractions" against criminals who are sometimes rewarded with as li...more
Always on the edge of disobedience and ignoring orders and often over the line with both feet. Starts with the murder of a much-despised black lawyer who makes big bucks suing LAPD for various "infractions" against criminals who are sometimes rewarded with as li...more
There is a moment in this insstallment that more than a little bit annoyed me. Our hero sees the condition of a victim's apartment. He sees that the bed has been made. He concludes that a woman must have been here! Men don't make the bed in the morning! It's a ridiculous leap. With that said, this is one of my favorites of the Harry Bosch novels so far.
Tight plotting, well-done pacing, and a bit of social commentary thrown in for good measure. This installment plays around a little bit with a m...more
Tight plotting, well-done pacing, and a bit of social commentary thrown in for good measure. This installment plays around a little bit with a m...more
Another outing for Connelly's popular detective Harry Bosch. This crime has political consequences therefore Bosch has a short time-scale and is given a tight rein by Deputy Chief Inspector Irving. The death of a famous black lawyer who concentrates his work on prosecuting cops guilty of racism and brutality. Bosch asks for help but is given a team from IAD headed by his nemesis Chastain and later, a team from the FBI are brought in to add weight to the investigation.
Bosch as usual, has a troub...more
Bosch as usual, has a troub...more
Still on my quest to read all of the Harry Bosch books. This seems like the first one I have read that isn't about his personal demons. At least this is the first one where Harry was not under investigation by IAD during the book. Someone he works with ends involved in the case, but we don't find that out until the end.
The one disappointment I have with the story is that at the end of the previous book, he married Eleanor, who was the love of his life. He felt safe and not lonely for the first t...more
The one disappointment I have with the story is that at the end of the previous book, he married Eleanor, who was the love of his life. He felt safe and not lonely for the first t...more
Homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch is up to his very stiff neck in politics, police corruption and racial tension. When Howard Elias, an African American lawyer famous for suing the LAPD for racially motivated brutality, is shot dead on the short train run up a steep hill in downtown L.A. known as Angels Flight Bosch and his team are assigned the highly sensitive case. Bosch deals with racial and departmental political hokum, he goes into the case knowing that cops will be among the su...more
"Well, you shoot a man in the balls and he's going to be pretty docile."Synopsis: Jaded, bitter L.A. cop gets handed a big bag of flaming poo and winds up investigating other jaded, bitter cops while L.A. burns.
And I had to look up the definition of 'quinella'*.
I thought after Trunk Music that I was done with Harry Bosch. Honestly, I did. I barely made it through the last half of that book with all its Vegas and its epic manpain and mommy drama. Mainly it was the Vegas. Bosch is so very entwined...more
Definately one of my favourites of the Harry Bosch series
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Jun 05, 2012
Carol
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery,
professional-sleuth
Angels Flight is an LA landmark, a funicular (new word for me) railway in the Bunker Hill district. I would call it an incline, since it's similar to the two in Pittsburgh. There are two cars, Sinai and Olivet, that travel the 298 feet up and down the hill. It's on one of these cars that the mystery in Angels Flight by Michael Connelly begins.
Two people are found dead, shot, in the car at the end of the night. One is a woman who works cleaning people's apartments. The other, Howard Elias, is the...more
Two people are found dead, shot, in the car at the end of the night. One is a woman who works cleaning people's apartments. The other, Howard Elias, is the...more
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