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Trunk Music (Harry Bosch #5)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
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...more
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...more
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Published
January 1st 2002
by Little, Brown and Company
(first published 1997)
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5th in the Harry Bosch series.[return][return]The death of a B-grade movie producer looks like a mob hit� in the parlance of the LAPD, � trunk music� because that� s where the bodies wind up. Harry� s investigation leads him to Las Vegas and what seems like the killer. But the lead blows up in his face, getting him into serious departmental trouble as well.[return][return]In addition, during his Vegas trip, he meets Eleanor Wish, the ex-FBI agent Bosch helped to convict for fraud, and who is the...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
After his utterly catastrophic meltdown in the last book, Bosch is somehow back on Hollywood homicide and about to get into his first case--a man executed and shoved in his trunk. It has all the earmarks of a hit by the outfit--a little "trunk music," as they would say. But Bosch, suspicious as always, grabs hold of the case and refuses to let go, even though it leads him into a tangled mess of gambling, revenge, and the mob in a city even more corrupt than his own: Las Vegas.
Although it wasn't...more
Although it wasn't...more
The mystery starts with a body found in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce on a ridge overlooking the Hollywood Bowl. Harry Bosch, LAPD's laconic super-detective, leads a team of three investigators as they attempt to solve the murder.
Like most Michael Connelly novels, the power of Trunk Music is in the details. Whether or not Connelly really knows police work is never in question, his books are so filled with details that you buy into everything he says.
So Bosch and his team--Detectives Edgar and Ryder...more
Like most Michael Connelly novels, the power of Trunk Music is in the details. Whether or not Connelly really knows police work is never in question, his books are so filled with details that you buy into everything he says.
So Bosch and his team--Detectives Edgar and Ryder...more
Trunk Music is #5 in the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. In this installment our LAPD murder detective has just come off of his involuntary leave suspension in The Last Coyote. Trunk music is a term used by mobsters when someone is offed in the trunk of a car and that is just how the story begins when an LAPD patrol officer finds a body in the trunk of a Rolls Royce above the Hollywood Bowl.
As usual the internal affairs boys will play a role in the story. Harry also has a new boss along...more
As usual the internal affairs boys will play a role in the story. Harry also has a new boss along...more
Definitely above average for a crime mystery police procedural with a happy ending, but 2 stars for the narrator.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
I was interested throughout. A woman comes into Harry’s life which made him more likeable. I loved Harry’s actions when a mobster kidnapped someone he cared about. It surprised me. This is my second Harry Bosch novel. There are at least 17 in the series. Book 1 had too many unlikeable characters. This (book 5) had several characters I liked or that interested me – i...more
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
I was interested throughout. A woman comes into Harry’s life which made him more likeable. I loved Harry’s actions when a mobster kidnapped someone he cared about. It surprised me. This is my second Harry Bosch novel. There are at least 17 in the series. Book 1 had too many unlikeable characters. This (book 5) had several characters I liked or that interested me – i...more
Number 5 in Connelly's series about Hollywood Police Detective Harry Bosch. This is Bosch's first case back on the job after a suspension. I'm amazed that anyone who has been investigated and suspended as much as Harry has is able to keep his job, but of course we readers are privy to Harry's reasoning. His superiors never seem to understand what he is doing.
In this case a man is killed in the trunk of his car. Finding the killer has all of Connelly's usual twists and turns, but Harry always get...more
In this case a man is killed in the trunk of his car. Finding the killer has all of Connelly's usual twists and turns, but Harry always get...more
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Michael Connelly- Trunk Music (St. Martin’s Press 1998) 4.25 Stars
Detective Bosch has been on an involuntary stress leave and when the body of a cheap movie producer is found dead inside the trunk of his car, it looks like a mob hit, but Bosch does not want to give up his first case in a long time. Money is usually a great motivator and it appears to be the same with this case. When the money takes Bosch to Vegas he discovers that the man was dealing was some dealing with some unsavoury people,...more
Detective Bosch has been on an involuntary stress leave and when the body of a cheap movie producer is found dead inside the trunk of his car, it looks like a mob hit, but Bosch does not want to give up his first case in a long time. Money is usually a great motivator and it appears to be the same with this case. When the money takes Bosch to Vegas he discovers that the man was dealing was some dealing with some unsavoury people,...more
Dec 24, 2012
Dlora
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4 of 5 stars
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Another good detective novel by Michael Connelly and there is a little less of the pissing contests that his character Harry Bosch usually gets into with his superiors. In fact, Harry actually likes the lieutenant running the homicide department (maybe because she is a woman? He seems to get along better with women). However, he does get into some confrontations with other agencies--the Organized Crime division for some reason doesn't want to take over the murder Harry's division is investigatin...more
Another great Michael Connelly in the Harry Bosch series and fortunately I'm reading them in order, slowly but in order.
I started Connelly with Mickey Haller, The Lincoln Lawyer, and I really enjoy the rag-tag lawyer. He was fun and funny. After I read the third book, I started on the Bosch series in part because he was mentioned and played a part in the Haller series and I knew I was coming to an end of those.
Bosch was not a favorite, by far and I say that in my first reviews of the series. H...more
I started Connelly with Mickey Haller, The Lincoln Lawyer, and I really enjoy the rag-tag lawyer. He was fun and funny. After I read the third book, I started on the Bosch series in part because he was mentioned and played a part in the Haller series and I knew I was coming to an end of those.
Bosch was not a favorite, by far and I say that in my first reviews of the series. H...more
Trunk Music does its job--that is, it's compelling enough to make the real world go away for awhile. For anyone who's been to Las Vegas--especially "then" and "now"--the character of the city, as depicted in this book, may be as interesting as any of the human characters.
The plot is complex but well crafted, although plenty of questions are left unanswered. But this is escapist literature, and much can be forgiven. There's a certain brutality, though, that made me uncomfortable with this book an...more
The plot is complex but well crafted, although plenty of questions are left unanswered. But this is escapist literature, and much can be forgiven. There's a certain brutality, though, that made me uncomfortable with this book an...more
Sep 27, 2012
Guillaume Jay
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Comme pour "Le poète", j'ai eu du mal à rentrer dans ce livre, avant d'être accroché par l'enquête. Par contre, on a la un vrai polar, et non un thriller : pas de serial killer ( de quoi ?) ici, mais un crime bien crapuleux.
C'est le cinquième volume des aventures du détective Harry Bosch : et le premier pour moi, mais ça ne m'a pas vraiment gêné. En plus de l'enquête, intéressante et tordue a souhait, j'ai beaucoup aimé le personnage de Harry : un flic parfois limite (sans tomber dans la caricat...more
C'est le cinquième volume des aventures du détective Harry Bosch : et le premier pour moi, mais ça ne m'a pas vraiment gêné. En plus de l'enquête, intéressante et tordue a souhait, j'ai beaucoup aimé le personnage de Harry : un flic parfois limite (sans tomber dans la caricat...more
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In this adventure, Harry is fresh off his suspension when he is assigned to the murder of an entertainment industry bigwig found shot and stuffed in the trunk of his car. Suspecting a mob hit, Harry makes his way to Vegas, where he once again crosses path with former lover, Eleanor Wish. As with most of Connelly's books in this series, Harry chases down false leads, always suspects the wife, and has a hunch that there might be some LAPD insiders on the make. This one held together quite well for...more
I'd give this book 4 stars if not for the damned chapter formatting. I can't stand an entire book having only 10 chapters.
As for the story, Connelly does it again. The beginning of the story starts slow because it seems like Connelly is just demonstrating how much he knows about police procedure. It seemed overly detailed but I guess there are probably those in that line of work who really like when the story goes that route because it's familiar to them. For me, I like the tension between Harry...more
As for the story, Connelly does it again. The beginning of the story starts slow because it seems like Connelly is just demonstrating how much he knows about police procedure. It seemed overly detailed but I guess there are probably those in that line of work who really like when the story goes that route because it's familiar to them. For me, I like the tension between Harry...more
More of the same in the series of Harry Bosch, and if that's your thing, this book is for you. Sometimes you read a book you can't put down, and this one was another for me - I read it in a day, it was a page turner and I couldn't put it down. The thing with Michael Connelly books I find is that the ones I think did it aren't the ones who did it. He doesn't point you in the wrong direction, it's that he doesn't really point you, but you try and guess and you're inevitably wrong, at least I am, a...more
Just another terrific Connelly mystery nove/police procedural. In this one a body found in a car trunk above the Hollywood Bowl leads an investigation back to Vegas, and aback to Los Angeles. Classic Connolly. Wonderful descriptions of LA, and in this one of Vegas (the seamy side).
I'm very biased in Connelly's favor because I'm an Angeleno. But he's generally great, too. Also, reading his books, going all the way back to Black Echo, is like reading a history of the LAPD over the last twenty or s...more
I'm very biased in Connelly's favor because I'm an Angeleno. But he's generally great, too. Also, reading his books, going all the way back to Black Echo, is like reading a history of the LAPD over the last twenty or s...more
No sooner does Detective Harry Bosch seem to get things reasonably back together again-- he's been reinstated to his LAPD job, his house has been rebuilt after succumbing to an earthquake--then everything goes south on him again. He uncovers an apparent mob hit, a body in the trunk of a car parked in the Hollywood hills, and runs afoul of Los Angeles Police internal politics, Las Vegas detectives, Federal agents, and an old flame who seems to be pure trouble. It's a chore to remain patient with...more
Don't think for one minute (if it's a thing you or another would even notice) that because I dropped a star on this, the fifth book of the series, means I'm thinking about dumping Harry. "Get oudda here!" would be my reply. Followed up by a very emphatic "Never!" Just a few minor nit-picky nothings, that relate only to me, and not Michael Connelly, resulted, in the end, with my opinion being—this is not his best. Which means zero, as he is still miles ahead of the rest (except of course, the com...more
Another of a series of Harry Bosch novels. Harry Bosch is a Vietnam veteran homicide detective in CA's Hollywood. He is a grizzled , no nonsense, throw out the book cop whos results are sterling but not his reputation.
In this novel, Harry Bosch and his team Jerry Edgar and Kiz Rider investigate the death of a B movie producer who is found in the trunk of his car with 2 bullets in him hence the title. All clues point to an organized crime hit but is this what really happened?
Mike Connelly sets th...more
In this novel, Harry Bosch and his team Jerry Edgar and Kiz Rider investigate the death of a B movie producer who is found in the trunk of his car with 2 bullets in him hence the title. All clues point to an organized crime hit but is this what really happened?
Mike Connelly sets th...more
Boy, can Connelly write. Several new characters in this #5 in the Bosch series -- a new minority female detective (who is evidently also Lesbian, although that is mentioned only in passing and isn't a big deal) and a new boss who is also minority female with no experience in homicide.
But she's willing to learn.
His main characters are always well realized, and even some of the minor characters are developed to a good degree.
As usual Bosch is in deep kimchi with the powers that be. Lots of back-an...more
But she's willing to learn.
His main characters are always well realized, and even some of the minor characters are developed to a good degree.
As usual Bosch is in deep kimchi with the powers that be. Lots of back-an...more
Did not enjoy this Harry Bosch series read quite as much as some of the others. When B-grade L.A. movie producer is found stuffed into the trunk of his Rolls Royce, all signs point to "trunk music" --a mob hit. Detective Harry Bosch, returning from his "involuntary stress leave," is not so sure. And when he finds the money trail, he follows it…all the way to Vegas.
Seems this Tony had his share of enemies, and in no time, so does Harry: Vegas thugs, LAPD's organized crime unit, a smarmy internal...more
Seems this Tony had his share of enemies, and in no time, so does Harry: Vegas thugs, LAPD's organized crime unit, a smarmy internal...more
The body of a straight-to-video movie producer is found in the trunk of his car. Something about the set up just seems off to Detective Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch. During the investigation he finds out more than he wanted to about his new partner, his new boss and the old love he never thought he would see again.
Michael Connelly is fast becoming a favorite of mine. A few of the things I like is that his lead character in the Harry Bosch series is fully fleshed out, he's a complicated man with sim...more
Michael Connelly is fast becoming a favorite of mine. A few of the things I like is that his lead character in the Harry Bosch series is fully fleshed out, he's a complicated man with sim...more
Fun easy read. His style makes me want to take up detective writing as he makes it seems so easy. I just realized I have read seven of his books in about a month!
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I enjoyed this one very much. I am loving the Bosch/Haller Series by Connelly and I think he can do so much with all of these characters. You can't help but like them, whether they are hooking up in these stories or in stories of their own. This story deals with Harry alone. There is a romantic angle which gives him a softer edge and I like that very much (although I must admit I am jealous as heck that he is off the market!).
Harry always lands on his feet, thinks fast on his feet and...more
I enjoyed this one very much. I am loving the Bosch/Haller Series by Connelly and I think he can do so much with all of these characters. You can't help but like them, whether they are hooking up in these stories or in stories of their own. This story deals with Harry alone. There is a romantic angle which gives him a softer edge and I like that very much (although I must admit I am jealous as heck that he is off the market!).
Harry always lands on his feet, thinks fast on his feet and...more
Apr 18, 2009
Jessica
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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I am reading all the Harry Bosch novels in order and I think I like this one best. "The Last Coyote" gives the reader a long look at LAPD Detective Harry Bosch's past as he solves the decades-old murder of his mother. This book dips into his personal history again as an apparent mob hit leads Bosch to an old girlfriend. Connelly adds a few laughs to this book, so if you like dark humor and well-plotted mysteries, either pick up this one or start the series with "The Black Echo." Connelly is one...more
As always, Michael Connelly provides incredible entertainment in the form of a thoroughly admiral detective!!
Having read most of Michael Connelly's fiction, and even some nonfiction, I found it very ironic that I just recently finished his latest book, "The Black Box", and then decided to read this one because somehow I missed it when it first came out. There are several similarities in the way the plot is developed between these two books; i.e. although this is not a cold case, it is a homicide that appears as if it were done by perpetrators who fit into one sterotypical category, when actually, it wa...more
Reading Michael Connelly is like seeing an old friend. There are still a few straggling books of his I haven't read, but I don't want to get into the same place I'm in with Dennis Lehane, my other favorite, that problem being I've read everything they have out. I'll eventually get to all of them, but I'm in no hurry.
Another strong book and series. I'm not one to get sucked into series, either, they usually get to a point where there are just too many things that could happen to one person in a...more
Another strong book and series. I'm not one to get sucked into series, either, they usually get to a point where there are just too many things that could happen to one person in a...more
I've been working my way through the Harry Bosch novels: Black Echo, Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde, The Last Coyote and this one. They've all been fine -- typical of the genre -- but not great. I don't think I like Bosch as much as John Sanford's Lucas Davenport. While both characters are head strong and pay little attention to the rules, I think Davenport has a better sense of humor. I also think Sanford's bad guys have been more interesting than the ones Bosch has been faced with so far. Fina...more
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“Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.”
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