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I liked this one. It flowed well, sucking me in from the beginning and never letting me go, and I got more intrigued--and interested in the protagonist detective, Harry Bosch, more and more as we went along. This is a first novel, but it lays enough backstory that it feels like there were prior books. Bosch had a case in the past so famous he got paid to be a consultant and have his name used in a television series, and he owns a home overlooking Los Angeles as a result. And another case got him
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I liked The Black Echo, I thought it was entertaining. However, I did not think it was up to the level of The Poet, which is my favorite Connelly book. I felt Bosch was a bit boring, especially compared to later Bosch books, one of which I've read (The Narrows). The plot twist at the end was good, although you come to expect them in a Connelly novel. One of the issues I had with the book was the Vietnam connection, it just didn't do a lot for as far as the story goes. This was possibly due to it
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