The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2) (Windsor Selection S.)

by Michael Connelly

Dick Hill (Narrator)

When a body is found in a hotel room, the press soon pick up on the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics officer, apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating LA from Mexico.

The LAPD are quick to declare the death a suicide, but Harry Bosch is not so sure. There are odd, unexplained details from the crime scene which just don't add up. Fighting an attraction to the cop's widow, Bosch starts his own maverick investigation, which soon leads him over the borders and into a dangerous world of shifting identities and deadly corruption...

• ISBN10: 1596000988
• ISBN13: 9781596000988
• Publish Date: 28 April 2005 (first published 1 June 1993)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Imprint: Brilliance Audio
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Audiobook (CD)
• Duration: 6 hours
• Language: English

Reviews

[ibeforem]

If you like straight-forward police procedurals with no quirks, Michael Connelly is the man for you. Bosch may have a bit of an independent streak and a penchant for lonely, sad women, but he’s surprisingly normal. When a fellow officer is found dead in a motel room, and Bosch doesn’t get the call, he knows something is hinky. He eventually finds himself embroiled in drugs, murder, and family matters — on both sides of the border. This series reflects the best of Michael Connelly.

[empressbrooke]

All my concerns about the unnatural dialogue in [a: Michael Connelly|12470|Michael Connelly|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1539114448p2/12470.jpg]'s first Harry Bosch novel, [b: The Black Echo|32508|The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)|Michael Connelly|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344265342l/32508._SY75_.jpg|48262], are completely cleared up for his second outing. Bosch's supervisor, Pounds, has some sentences that could use some contractions to make them more natural, but he doesn't spend enough time talking for it to matter.

Again, Connelly provides a twist in the end that I did not see coming, and the whole mystery was very well done. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series more now than I was after the first book.