Title: Not what I expected
Product review: Michael Connelly is a fine author. He has stories to tell, and he tells them well. I have most of his books, and will no doubt continue buying them.This one, sad to say, did not please me.This is the true-crime version of a Dave Barry book, a collection of previously written columns / stories from the author's days as a reporter, in South Florida and in Los Angeles. The stories are all well written; footnotes bring us up to date (whenever possible) on what has transpired in each case in the 15 - 20 years since they first appeared in print.But Lord, is it dry! If I wanted to spend a few hours reading a newspaper, I'd buy the NYTimes.Part of the problem is that many chapters consist of multiple stories, written a few weeks / months / years apart. Each subsequent story had to reiterate the important facts, so there is a *lot* of repetition.I'm not sorry I read it; I just wish I had waited for the paperback.
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