"Beneath the Waters of Avalon," by Michael Connelly: The New Life of Harry Bosch's Father
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Review A somewhat bland island huis clos, signed, however, by the great master of urban slums. ★★★☆☆
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I Love You, I Don't, Michael Connelly leaves Los Angeles, but not too much. His sidestep takes place by boat, 35 kilometers offshore, on the island of Santa Catalina. After Vietnam veteran and LAPD cop Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, his half-brother, Renée Ballard of Cold Cases, and McEvoy the journalist, Connelly begins a new literary life, with detective Rodney Stilwell. " Stilwell, not stillwater " promises to be a younger and less tortured version of Bosch. In a quiet relationship with Tash (Natasha), he is sent to this tourist island for having denounced a crooked superior officer. In Santa Catalina, the police, toes fanned out, travel in golf carts. Until a body is discovered bundled up, sausage-style, under the hull of a sailboat moored in Avalon Harbor.
We immediately think of Patricia Highsmith's "Mr. Ripley," but the perversity is missing, and this island huis clos, signed by the great master of urban underworld, tends more towards "The Major Talked Too Much," Miss Marple in the Caribbean.
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