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Loading... Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profileby Michael Connelly
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HTML:The #1 New York Timesâ??bestselling author brings you into the world of the LAPD's Harry Bosch, and the history that shaped him. In this short work, Michael Connelly delves into the origins of his famed police detective,â??how he faced down the horrors of his childhood (a background story that was based on the life of another renowned crime writer); his past as a tunnel rat in Vietnam; and why jazz is his soundtrack. Connelly also shares the story of how his character Hieronymus Bosch came to be named after a fifteenth-century Flemish painter, and how his own youthful experiences of fear led to his literary creation. Those who have followed the cases of this tough cop more interested in justice than ambition will find much to enjoy and to ponder in this behind-the-scenes account. "Connelly truly is one of the finest mystery writers." â??South Florida Sun Sentinel "No writer exploits Los Angelesâ??its geography, its historical power wars, its celebrity culture, its loreâ??as compellingly as Connelly." ?Chica No library descriptions found. |
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Review of the Mysterious Press/Open Road Media Kindle eBook (April 26, 2022)
I snapped this up from a Kindle Deal of the Day and didn't do any research in advance. It turns out that it is an article about the origins of Harry Bosch as he came together in the first Bosch novel The Black Echo (1992). Although sold now as individual eBooks by OpenRoad Media as of 2022, these profiles were mostly written in 2007 and 21 of them were collected in The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (2009) edited by Otto Penzler, who founded The Mysterious Press Bookshop and Publishing Imprint.
So there is some deception involved here as the book origin isn't apparent until you get to the small print in the eBook. You also then discover that the article itself is only 16 pages of the advertised 31 pages and that the rest is advertising for the rest of the series. There now appear to be 26 individual eBooks if you do a Goodreads Search as no one has yet assembled them into a Goodreads List.
See screengrab at https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/330764225_6086480171433130_35...
A sampling of the individual Mysterious Profiles eBooks published as of 2022. Image from my own screengrab.
The Bosch article itself was interesting though and author Michael Connelly is very open about his origins for the character (who was originally named Pierce in the first drafts) from other noir writers and Harry's orphan backstory for which he got the idea from author James Ellroy's true life, which the latter eventually wrote about in My Dark Places (1996). The downside to this Mysterious Profile is that it does not actually bring the story up to date for Bosch in 2022.
Due to the deception about the original source date and the use of padded advertising, I can't rate this more than a 2.
I did also now note that most of the Mysterious Profiles are available online at Scribd if you are a member there. (