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Title: Engaging, readable--but I couldn't suspend disbelief
Review: I like Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels, and I liked this one. It engaged me, I stayed up late reading it, and I enjoyed it.But... oh, are there ever plot problems in this one. The heavy plot machinery clanks and groans. I couldn't really believe any of it for an instant.I couldn't believe Bosch dunnit. I couldn't believe McCaleb could believe Bosch dunnit. And I couldn't believe the REAL criminal would have risked being so subtle setting up a frame. He couldn't possibly have been sure that McCaleb would pick up the clues and draw the right conclusions, I mean the wrong conclusions, I mean the conclusions the criminal wanted him to draw.And, while I have no objection to a writer naming his character after a fifteenth-century Dutch painter (any more than I object to Parker naming his after a fifteenth-century English poet), making the name figure directly into the plot sounds to me as if the writer is running short of ideas.Still, a good read.
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