{"id":6668,"date":"2018-09-19T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2018-09-19T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:27:21","slug":"the-wrong-side-of-goodbye-by-michael-connelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/the-wrong-side-of-goodbye-by-michael-connelly\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Wrong Side of Goodbye” by Michael Connelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2016 by Hieronymus, Inc. Published by Grand Central Publishing.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is one of the series of mysteries featuring\u00a0Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch, a retired LAPD detective working as a PI in southern California.\u00a0 He is a cerebral detective who can be tough when required. In this book he shoots a bad guy, so I guess he is pretty good with a gun, too.<\/p>\n

There are two plots here: (1) a serial rapist, known as “The Screen Cutter,” is on the loose in the San Fernando Valley and (2) a dying billionaire is looking for a possible heir.\u00a0 In the case of the rapist Bosch participates in the search as a part-time, unpaid cop for the San Fernando PD.\u00a0 The second case is taken as a private job.\u00a0 I expected these two cases to somehow cross paths and possibly even converge, but they didn’t.\u00a0 It was like watching two TV shows on a split screen.\u00a0 It seems like Connelly had two ideas for stories but didn’t have quite enough detail for a separate book for each, so he just threw them together.\u00a0 In my view both suffered from not being fleshed out enough.\u00a0 He should have written two separate books.<\/p>\n

I like Connelly’s style and was fully engaged until near the end.\u00a0 In both cases there was significant threat of violence and suspense, but in the end there was very little of either.\u00a0 It was a literary promise unfulfilled.\u00a0 Both stories disappointed me.\u00a0 So while I enjoyed about 90% of the book, I can’t give it high marks.\u00a0 This book was a 99-yard drive that stalled on the 1-yard line.\u00a0 Great promise and fun getting there, but a huge disappointment at the end.<\/p>\n

5 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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