title: The Wrong Side of Goodbye (A Harry Bosch Novel)
author:  Michael Connelly 
description: Praise for <i>The Wrong Side of Goodbye: </i><br /><br />"....a powerful, Macdonald-esque meditation on the claims the past exerts on the present. Few mystery novelists make background facts and simple descriptions sing the way this writer does. And no writer exploits Los Angeles - its geography, its historical power wars, its celebrity culture, its lore - as compellingly as Connelly....he must be read." <br /><b>Lloyd Sachs</b>, <b><i>Chicago Tribune<br /></i></b><br /><br />"If any novelist is worthy to walk once more through the front door of Raymond Chandler's iconic Sternwood mansion, it's Michael Connelly. For over two decades, Connelly has been brilliantly updating and enlarging the possibilities of the classic L.A. hard-boiled novel, first bestowed upon the world in 1939 with Chandler's debut, <i>The Big Sleep</i>. This latest Bosch outing is its own accomplishment: brooding and intricate, suspenseful and sad. In short, it's another terrific Michael Connelly mystery....a master of the genre." <br /><b>Maureen Corrigan</b>, <b><i>Washington Post<br /></i></b><br /><br />"Bosch at his best."<br /><b>Marilyn Stasio</b>, <b><i>New York Times Book Review<br /></i></b><br /><br />"Connelly has created in Bosch one of the great characters in contemporary crime fiction."<b>Colette Bancroft</b>, <b><i>Tampa Bay Times<br /></i></b><br /><br />"Michael Connelly is the master of the universe in which he lives, and that is the sphere of crime thrillers. This man is so good at what he does.... THE WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE is the twenty first Harry Bosch story and it is just as good or better than the first one was. Nobody writes like Connelly, nobody. He is unique in his style and also in the character of Harry Bosch he has created. If you read one page about Harry Bosch as written by Michael Connelly you will be hooked for life." <br /><b>Jackie K. Cooper</b>, <b><i>Huffington Post<br /></i></b><br /><br />"It is impossible for Connelly to tell a bad story. Moving effortlessly between Bosch's private and public cases, he ratchets up the tension...pulling off in the final few chapters a California noir sleight of hand that would make Ross Macdonald envious." <br /><b>Robert Anglen</b>, <b><i>The Arizona Republic<br /></i></b><br /><br />"In each novel, Connelly has dug deeper into Harry's psyche, as he skillfully does in <i>The Wrong Side of Goodbye</i>....Connelly's melding of the police procedural, private detective novel and intense character study remains solid. Harry isn't with the LAPD anymore, but readers will be glad to know he is still on the job."<b>Oline H. Cogdill</b>, <b><i>South Florida Sun Sentinel<br /></i></b><br /><br />"....it is immensely satisfying to see Bosch's sustained and deepened passion for his mission- "Everybody count or nobody counts" - undiminished by age or circumstance, even as a younger generation of detectives of all colors and orientations share the stage to carry on the work that has given Bosch, and this series, such an enduring appeal. Harry Bosch and his law enforcement heirs are still fighting the good fight, luckily, for us all." <br /><b>Paula L. Woods</b>, <b><i>Los Angeles Times<br /></i></b><br /><br />"It is a disturbing and yet cathartic tale-within-a-tale that proves once again what a master storyteller Connelly is."<br /><b>Bruce Tierney</b>, <b><i>BookPage</i></b><br /><br />"Connelly continues to discover new depths to his character and new stories to tell that reveal those depths in always compelling ways. Hats off one more time to a landmark crime series."<b>Bill Ott</b>, <b><i>Booklist (starred review)<br /></i></b>
zlib_text: ## DENNIS LEHANE  
  VS. MICHAEL CONNELLY
  
  
  On paper it seemed like a cool idea. Bring Patrick Kenzie and Harry Bosch
  together in a short story for a good cause. But Dennis Lehane and Michael
  Connelly quickly realized that it was easier said than done. Both characters
  are rooted in the verisimilitude of the places they live and the jobs they
  carry out. They’re fictional, sure, but their creators had worked hard to
  ensure that neither ever made a false move. In short, Harry Bosch and Patrick
  Kenzie live or die with readers on the basis of their believability. No
  gimmick short story—good cause or not—could be allowed to mess with that.
  
  
  So how would these two iconic characters come together?
  
  
  Most important, who would come to whom?
  
  
  Would Bosch go east to Kenzie’s Boston, or would Boston come to LA?
  
  
  It seemed from the start the natural thing would be to send Bosch east. In the
  most recent Bosch books Harry works for the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, a cold
  case squad that, by its nature,