Very entertaining if you like your cops to hardboiled. They don't come any harder than Harry Bosch. In The Black Ice Bosch ends up involved investigating a series of seemingly unrelated drug murders which. of course, end up being related. Along the way he smokes a lot of cigarettes, fights with the LAPD brass, and essentially does things his own way. He even ends up in a short bullfight.

It's a fast paced tale with plenty of subplots. A real page turner with a surprise ending that this reviewer did not see coming.

One little nit to pick is that Michael Connelly obviously knows nothing about life in the San Francisco Bay Area during winter. Black ice is NOT and never will be a driving hazard in the Bay Area. Thankfully this little error has nothing to do with the story. He stumbled an errant way to use an analogy.

Anyway, The Black Ice is highly entertaining. It's not going to win any literary awards, but who reads dectective novels for their literary portent?