The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

A quick one for you... A while back I read The Lincoln Lawyer and remember enjoying it enough to keep Michael Connelly on my writers to read list. Then I read The Poet and that was a pretty damn good book as well. So it only makes sense for me to check out the series which made Michael Connelly a household name to mystery fans - his Harry Bosch novels. Beginning with The Black Echo, the first of the series, only makes additional sense in my mind.

The Black Echo is a solid, fast paced, mystery. Michael Connelly puts in some great authentic feeling details and tells a highly readable tale. While I enjoyed it well enough, for some reason I was never able to really connect with the main character. This is totally a me thing, not a Michael Connelly thing... I’d recommend this book to just about any mystery reader - Michael Connelly writes a tight novel. It is just that I doubt if I will be reading more Harry Bosch books (I guess he was an intriguing enough character, just not one I feel the need to follow), but I know for sure I will read more of Michael Connelly's non-Harry Bosch books, which thankfully there are a few for me to pick up (with Void Moon already in my possession).