The Denver-based book club, Crime & Beyond, just read the latest Michael Connelly book; let's see if it's a good book club read.
Crime & Beyond is a big fan of everything Michael
Connelly writes, and he is one of the few authors we will read over and over
again. This past month we read book 20 in the Harry Bosch series, Two Kinds of Truth. In the book, Bosch’s
work on cold cases is interrupted when there is a double homicide at a local
pharmacy. The case leads investigators into the world of prescription drug trafficking
and Bosch ends up going undercover to try and catch the bad guys. Meanwhile,
one of the men Bosch helped put in jail years before is accusing him of
planting the evidence that convicted him, and claims he has new DNA results that
prove he’s innocent. Bosch hires his half-brother Mickey Haller to defend him.
The book got great reviews from the club. We had a long
discussion about both of Harry’s cases and we absolutely loved that Mickey
Haller had a cameo (more than half of us are team Haller). The book is very
relevant as it deals with the opioid crisis. Connelly put a lot of research
into the book and really delves into a big issue that we are all seeing in the
news.
Harry also closes an old cold case he had worked on that had
been haunting him. One of our only criticisms was that it seemed like there
were one too many plotlines going on at once.
The end of the book contains a hint as to Harry’s next case
and we look forward to book 21 when he teams up with Connelly's new female character, Renee Ballard.
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