Series Update

Where are we up to in the series?

Overall Series Rating thru Book #2 – 3.93
Most Popular Book – The Black Echo
Least Popular Book - The Black Ice

Overall Ratings Thus Far
The Black Echo - 4.14
The Black Ice - 3.72
The Concrete Blonde -


The Black Echo - Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch series Book #1

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic.

This one is personal . . . because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war.

Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.

Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.
This book serves to provide the backstory about Harry's combat experience in Vietnam early in the 1970s.

The "black echo" of the title crops up again and again, reflecting Harry's deployment as a "tunnel rat" pursuing Vietcong soldiers through the network of tunnels they have dug throughout much of the country. "Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel," Connelly writes. "Each one was a black echo…nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.".

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Overall Average Rating: 4.14


The Black Ice – Michael Conelly
Harry Bosch series Book #2

Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket that says “I found out who I am.”

Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together.

Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border.

Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly game-one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.

Bosch duels with corrupt cops; attends a bullfight; breaks into a fly-breeding lab that's the distribution center for Mexico's black-ice kingpin; and takes part in a raid on the kingpin's ranch that concludes with Bosch waving his jacket like a matador's cape at a killer bull on the rampage. But the kingpin escapes, leading to a not wholly unexpected twist…and to a touching assignation with the dead narc's widow.

There were 9 participants in the discussion
Overall Average Rating : 3.28

Thanks Carol 👏👏👏

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"Thank You, Carol." 😊

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Thanks Carol! I needed the refresher.

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