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A review by topdragon
Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
5.0
I’ve just completed my watching of the 5th season of the excellent “Bosch” television show and really started to feel like I needed to get back to reading the actual series it’s based on. This fifth book in the series picks up a few months after the previous book, [b:The Last Coyote|49353|The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4)|Michael Connelly|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1170358620s/49353.jpg|449477]. Because of the events of in that book, Harry starts this one just coming off administrative leave and is anxious to get back on a case. When a body is found in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce with two bullets to the back of the head, all signs point to a mob hit. Thus the term ‘Trunk Music’. Bosch and team doggedly pursue the case which takes them to Las Vegas and back to LA several times, involves the FBI, casinos, and yes, the mob.
This one definitely deserves the sub-genre title of ‘police procedural’. All the Bosch books I’ve read so far are that way but this one really packs in a lot of ol’ fashioned pound-the-pavement/knock-on-doors approach to solving a case. Just when the team thinks they have it nailed down, a twist crops up and it’s back to square one. This is an important entry in the series as it introduces Lt Billets (the new homicide division leader) as well as Harry’s old flame, Eleanor Wish and detective Kizman “Kiz” Rider. All are important characters as the series unfolds.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and have made a promise to myself to not let so much time lapse before grabbing the next one.
This one definitely deserves the sub-genre title of ‘police procedural’. All the Bosch books I’ve read so far are that way but this one really packs in a lot of ol’ fashioned pound-the-pavement/knock-on-doors approach to solving a case. Just when the team thinks they have it nailed down, a twist crops up and it’s back to square one. This is an important entry in the series as it introduces Lt Billets (the new homicide division leader) as well as Harry’s old flame, Eleanor Wish and detective Kizman “Kiz” Rider. All are important characters as the series unfolds.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and have made a promise to myself to not let so much time lapse before grabbing the next one.