Reviews

Chasing the Dime

• Named one of the Best Books Of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times

"Connelly diabolically teases readers with bits of exposition while scaring the hell out of them in the most accomplished slice of Hitchcock since the Master's heyday. The result is a tour de force of nerve-shredding suspense."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"IAN Rankin and Michael Connelly live half a world apart and yet seem to be joined at the hip. They both convey an intense sense of place: Edinburgh for Rankin, Los Angeles for Connelly. They both observe the seamy side of life with streetwise cynicism blended with the clinical detachment of a forensic pathologist. Their characters haunt the “mean streets”, which ever since the late Raymond Chandler have been traditionally the milieu of the private eye – and the cop."
- The Adelaide Review

"Connelly's plotting is shrink-wrap tight, his characters... are smartly drawn. It's the rare reader who will be able to finger the villain behind all the mayhem. ...this is the perfect book for a long airplane ride..."
— Publishers Weekly

""Chasing the Dime" creates a scarily high-tech brand of intrigue. Mr. Connelly is a spare, expeditious storyteller with a natural talent for generating forward momentum."
— Janet Maslin, New York Times

"With each chapter, Connelly tests his hero and achieves his full potential as an author."
— USA Today

"As one of today's top crime novelists, Michael Connelly does many things well. The strongest aspect of his writing, however, may be his ability to create atmosphere, and his compellingly readable new thriller, "Chasing the Dime," has it in spades."
— Connor Ennis, Associated Press