A review by usbsticky
Angle of Investigation by Michael Connelly
3.0
Edit: I hated the first story, finally read the other 2 and liked them. #2 Father's Day was about child left in car. #3 was about Bosch when he was at Open-Unsolved with Kiz Rider and solved a crime that he was involved in as a boot. I really only liked #3. #2 was ok.
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1 star = I did not like it by GR's rating system.
I have to start off by saying that I'm a big Michael Connelly fan, I have all of his books and I started following him a long time ago. This is the first time I've read one of his short story compilations.
I started withe the first story "Christmas Even" and after that I declined to finish the rest of the book. The reason for that is until now, I felt that MC never tried to pontificate or tell a message in any of his stories. Bosch was Bosch and that was it but I felt that he tried to pontificate in this story.
Here's my beef: Bosch investigates the crime and decides to turn Servan in. "Everybody counts or nobody counts" is Bosch's motto. OK, I'm fine with that. If he feels Servan committed a crime, then fine, turn him in. But then when Bosch finds the sax, he decides to basically steal it and give it back to its owner. But I say "everybody counts", that includes Servan from whom the sax was stolen and he had legitimately acquired it. I don't know what MC is trying to tell here but I don't think Bosch would have returned it. This short was written in 2004. I think by that time MC had become famous already and probably felt he deserved a little latitude on how Bosch could be portrayed. Bosch is many things but I never felt he was a hypocrite or had ever been put in such a situation before. Anyway, if everybody counts, then Servan does too, no matter how small. Either you give him a pass for killing and take the sax but don't give him the short ends of 2 sticks.
Furthermore, I have decided not to read any of his other short stories. I don't think the short story format is conducive to this type of thriller. There isn't really enough time to develop a thriller type story that I'm used to or like.
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1 star = I did not like it by GR's rating system.
I have to start off by saying that I'm a big Michael Connelly fan, I have all of his books and I started following him a long time ago. This is the first time I've read one of his short story compilations.
I started withe the first story "Christmas Even" and after that I declined to finish the rest of the book. The reason for that is until now, I felt that MC never tried to pontificate or tell a message in any of his stories. Bosch was Bosch and that was it but I felt that he tried to pontificate in this story.
Here's my beef: Bosch investigates the crime and decides to turn Servan in. "Everybody counts or nobody counts" is Bosch's motto. OK, I'm fine with that. If he feels Servan committed a crime, then fine, turn him in. But then when Bosch finds the sax, he decides to basically steal it and give it back to its owner. But I say "everybody counts", that includes Servan from whom the sax was stolen and he had legitimately acquired it. I don't know what MC is trying to tell here but I don't think Bosch would have returned it. This short was written in 2004. I think by that time MC had become famous already and probably felt he deserved a little latitude on how Bosch could be portrayed. Bosch is many things but I never felt he was a hypocrite or had ever been put in such a situation before. Anyway, if everybody counts, then Servan does too, no matter how small. Either you give him a pass for killing and take the sax but don't give him the short ends of 2 sticks.
Furthermore, I have decided not to read any of his other short stories. I don't think the short story format is conducive to this type of thriller. There isn't really enough time to develop a thriller type story that I'm used to or like.