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Title: What happened?!?
Review: As one who'd been waiting for the next Connelly novel with great enthusiasm, I *have* to share my disappointment. I wish I'd never read this book... it soured the taste of the whole Bosch series for me.In short, this reads like the procedural history of an authentic police case, but it's just not a case that's "bookworthy." No cliffhanger moments, no truly suspensful life & death struggles... there is just nothing compelling about this dusty old case, no credible justification given for the investigation's urgency or for the media frenzy, and no real sympathy created for the victim.BTW, "The Last Coyote" did a *much* better job of bringing an old case to life and making the pursuit of its solution truly exciting than did "City of Bones."Connelly's a great author, so the book is not rife with cliches... that and the fact that at least *one* character (Bosch) was well developed made it worth two stars instead of one.
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