Reviews

City of Bones

• Nominated for the 2003 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
• Named a Notable Book Of The Year by the New York Times

"Harry Bosch is at the top of his form... His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch's past outings, but it also crackles with energy — especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page."
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"I had a few plans for the day on which I read Michael Connelly's latest mystery. Nothing much, but enough to have made me put the book down once in a while. Well, no way. Not a chance. Everything else took a back seat to following Harry Bosch, Mr. Connelly's tough, moody Hollywood detective, through the author's latest carefully wrought maze. ..."City of Bones" is a clean, tight, propulsive thriller set in the moral murk of detective-story Los Angeles. And it is an incendiary page turner..."
— New York Times

"Enough to say this is strong Connelly: well-plotted, lean and spare and more than a little sad... The search for truth leading to unintended consequences is a cautionary theme that has worked since Sophocles, and it works here."
— Los Angeles Times

"...City Of Bones is up to the high standards of its predecessors. ...Connelly's prose has become leaner over the years, and his understanding of how cops work and think remains unsurpassed. ...the best American crime series now in progress."
— Washington Post

"Book Of The Week. ...his melancholy hero deftly weaves a thin thread of hope through a spartan saga of good and evil, light and darkness."
— People Magazine