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Title: Make no bones about it ...
Review: City of Bones has been put together like a skeleton - only there seems to be a few bones missing. Michael Connelly's eighth Harry Bosch title is disjointed and disappointing - a letdown from his usual brilliance evidenced in A Darkness More Than Night, Void Moon, Angels Flight, Blood Work, and The Poet. The plot sees LAPD veteran Bosch investigating the discovery of a child's skeleton, buried for 20 years. However a storyline that starts with so much promise also become buried. The characters are flimsy and the investigation, a facile victory.It seems even the usual brilliant Connelly became bored and rather than deliver his usual twists and turns, sent this story down a deadend street.
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