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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) City of Bones
Michael Connelly's world-weary cop Harry Bosch gets another outing in <I>City of Bones</I>, torn apart by having to investigate the long-ago killing of a much abused boy and by his doomed affair with a much younger woman cop. This is not the best or the most ingenious, but is the gloomiest and perhaps most thoughful, of Connelly's thrillers about Bosch, thrillers which take the assumptions of the police procedural and makes them part of the creation of a mood in which to investigate is to struggle with the tragic forces in life. Connelly is especially good on the more positive aspects of canteen culture, that real desire to protect the innocent and serve society that Bosch calls the blue religion; when, as here, a paedophile witness is outed to the press or a suspect shot in dubious circumstances, it is not just good standards of policework, but something more important that is being betrayed. If <I>City of Bones</I>turns out to be the last of Connelly's books about Bosch, or the last in which he is controlled and constrained in his mission of justice by his role as a police officer, it will not be a dying fall to one of the more impressive thriller series of our time. <I>--Roz Kaveney</I>
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Orion mass market paperback A Darkness More Than Night
In <I>A Darkness More than Night</I>, Michael Connelly brings together in a clash of values Terry McCaleb, the semi-retired profiler of <I>Blood Work</I> and Harry Bosch, the burned-out LAPD veteran who most recently appeared in <I>Angels Flight</I>. McCaleb is called in unofficially when someone hog-ties acquitted rapist and murderer Gunn and leaves him to strangle himself, and he soon finds everything from the way Gunn died to the plastic owl left watching the corpse pointing him solidly in one direction. Meanwhile Bosch is orchestrating a high-profile case against a Hollywood producer with a taste for strangling his mistresses and a security adviser whose dislike of Bosch goes back a very long way... This is an ingenious thriller which is also a powerful parable about justice and just how far it is possible to go in pursuit of it; Connelly is as intelligent about human motivation and the misunderstandings that destroy friendship as he is about forensics, art history and the mechanics of prosecution. By bringing together two series characters, he ensures that we care passionately about the outcome of his puzzle and his argument; we have a lot invested in who is right, and who is innocent. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Orion mass market paperback The Black Ice
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Orion The Harry Bosch Mysteries: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch)
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) A Darkness More Than Night
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Orion mass market paperback The Black Echo
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Orion mass market paperback City of Bones
Michael Connelly's world-weary cop Harry Bosch gets another outing in <I>City of Bones</I>, torn apart by having to investigate the long-ago killing of a much abused boy and by his doomed affair with a much younger woman cop. This is not the best or the most ingenious, but is the gloomiest and perhaps most thoughful, of Connelly's thrillers about Bosch, thrillers which take the assumptions of the police procedural and makes them part of the creation of a mood in which to investigate is to struggle with the tragic forces in life. Connelly is especially good on the more positive aspects of canteen culture, that real desire to protect the innocent and serve society that Bosch calls the blue religion; when, as here, a paedophile witness is outed to the press or a suspect shot in dubious circumstances, it is not just good standards of policework, but something more important that is being betrayed. If <I>City of Bones</I>turns out to be the last of Connelly's books about Bosch, or the last in which he is controlled and constrained in his mission of justice by his role as a police officer, it will not be a dying fall to one of the more impressive thriller series of our time. <I>--Roz Kaveney</I>
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Three Great Novels 3: A Darkness More Than Night, City of Bones, Chasing the Dime
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Michael Connelly A Darkness More Than Night
Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex...
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Minkus - Don Quixote - Harvey/ Baryshnikov
PLACE: New York Met COMPANY: American Ballet Theatre ORCHESTRA: American Ballet Theatre Orchestra CONDUCTOR: Paul Connelly CHOREOGRAPHY:Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Delibes/ Neumeier - Sylvia - Dupont/ Legris
PLACE: Opera National de Paris COMPANY: Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris ORCHESTRA: Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris CONDUCTOR: Paul Connelly CHOREOGRAPHER: John Neumeier
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Crime Beat: Stories of Cops and Killers
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Louisiana State University Press The Marble Man: Robert E.Lee and His Image in American Society
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Orion mass market paperback The Last Coyote
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Mainstream Publishing London Fields: A Journey Through Football's Metroland
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Orion The Best American Mystery Stories: Bk.4
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Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. Forgetting Ireland
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Lincoln Lawyer
It's always good to welcome a Michael Connelly novel, and <i>The Lincoln Lawyer</i> is a strong addition to the Connelly bookshelf. This stand-alone legal thriller has all the adroit plotting and no-nonsense prose that are Connelly's trademarks, with a particularly strong protagonist. <P>In the hierarchy of American lawyers, `Lincoln lawyers' are not held in the highest esteem. These are criminal defence attorneys who run their practices from a travelling Lincoln car, traversing the county of Los Angeles to hoover up whatever work is available, however basic. Connelly's tarnished hero is Mickey Heller, who has fine-tuned this less-than-impressive side of the legal profession to such a degree that few can match him: he knows all the ins and outs of the system, including precisely who to slip a back-hander to when appropriate. But Mickey finds a way to move upmarket when he acquires a well-heeled client. A rich young man from Beverly Hills has been arrested for savagely assaulting a woman, and the case falls in Mickey's lap. And though the lawyer is used to defending clients who are guilty as sin, it actually looks (for once) that his client is innocent. But Lincoln lawyers like Mickey are fully aware of the lottery that is their profession, and he isn't too surprised when the case goes pear-shaped. But (to his dismay) Mickey slowly learns that neither his client nor the victim in the case is quite what they seem to be, and soon there's a lot more than a penny-ante case at stake, with Mickey's life quite as much at risk as any reputation he might have. <P> Connelly fans (an ever-growing army) will be pleased to hear that all the customary traits are fully on offer here, with one key component even more finely honed than usual: the gritty, idiomatic dialogue, which is richer and more entertaining than usual. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice
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Orion mass market paperback Void Moon
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Orion The Closers
<i> The Closers</i> puts Harry Bosch back in the Los Angelese Police Department, where he was meant to be, and sets him to solving old cases, which is what he always did best, alongside Kiz Rider, who was always the best of the partners fate, and Connolly, gave him. They are working on the death of a bi-racial teenager back in the 1980s, abducted from her bedroom and shot dead. The racial tensions of the time are clearly a factor - the DNA of a known racist is trapped in blood on the gun - but in a Michael Connolly novel, things are never as simple as they seem. And Bosch finds, not to his especial surprise, that he has been asked back into the LAPD as someone's weapon in the dance of departmental politics. The death of Backy Verloren was a tragedy - the investigation of her murder was a series of mistakes that left her father an alcoholic mess and her mother an obsessive trapped in the past, and someone profited by their misery. Connolly is always at his best when Harry is caught up in the problems of other people, rather than his own, and this excellent, twisty police procedural is a snappy return to form. --<i>Roz Kaveney</i>
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I B Tauris & Co Ltd The Red Shoes: Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide (British Film Guide S.)
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Lincoln Lawyer
It's always good to welcome a Michael Connelly novel, and <i>The Lincoln Lawyer</i> is a strong addition to the Connelly bookshelf. This stand-alone legal thriller has all the adroit plotting and no-nonsense prose that are Connelly's trademarks, with a particularly strong protagonist. <P>In the hierarchy of American lawyers, `Lincoln lawyers' are not held in the highest esteem. These are criminal defence attorneys who run their practices from a travelling Lincoln car, traversing the county of Los Angeles to hoover up whatever work is available, however basic. Connelly's tarnished hero is Mickey Heller, who has fine-tuned this less-than-impressive side of the legal profession to such a degree that few can match him: he knows all the ins and outs of the system, including precisely who to slip a back-hander to when appropriate. But Mickey finds a way to move upmarket when he acquires a well-heeled client. A rich young man from Beverly Hills has been arrested for savagely assaulting a woman, and the case falls in Mickey's lap. And though the lawyer is used to defending clients who are guilty as sin, it actually looks (for once) that his client is innocent. But Lincoln lawyers like Mickey are fully aware of the lottery that is their profession, and he isn't too surprised when the case goes pear-shaped. But (to his dismay) Mickey slowly learns that neither his client nor the victim in the case is quite what they seem to be, and soon there's a lot more than a penny-ante case at stake, with Mickey's life quite as much at risk as any reputation he might have. <P> Connelly fans (an ever-growing army) will be pleased to hear that all the customary traits are fully on offer here, with one key component even more finely honed than usual: the gritty, idiomatic dialogue, which is richer and more entertaining than usual. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Zondervan Publishing House Bible Prophecy for Blockheads: A User-Friendly Look at the End Times
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Orion Lost Light
Michael Connolly has written seven books featuring the hard-boiled Vietnam vet-turned-LAPD detective Harry Bosch and <I>Lost Light</I> sees him ride again. The astringent and vivid realisation of the city of Los Angeles (quite as sharply done as in the great novels of Raymond Chandler) and the layers of complexity created for Bosch made him one of the most interesting and well-realised characters in modern crime fiction. Even the overused device of alcohol abuse in the detective was treated with freshness and imagination. Such non-Bosch titles as <I>Chasing the Dime</I> have their virtues, but most admirers will frankly be relieved that Harry is back in action.<p> When Harry Bosch left the LAPD, he took with him a murder file about a film production assistant killed four years before during a large-scale robbery on a movie set. The LAPD has decided that the stolen money was utilised to create a terrorist training camp, and there are moves to release the killer to enable the FBI to track down the terrorists. Needless to say, this does not go down well with the volatile Harry, and he soon finds himself up against his erstwhile colleagues at the LAPD and the implacable forces of the FBI.<p> In the earlier Bosch novels, it's clear that the flintily wrought characterisation and gritty scene-setting concealed some less-than-original plots, but here we've got a triumphant marriage of innovative, hard-edge narrative and a parade of characters quite as vivid as any in the genre. The set pieces have all the usual panache, and the larger and more detailed canvas is carried off with considerable dash. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Orion The Closers
<i> The Closers</i> puts Harry Bosch back in the Los Angelese Police Department, where he was meant to be, and sets him to solving old cases, which is what he always did best, alongside Kiz Rider, who was always the best of the partners fate, and Connolly, gave him. They are working on the death of a bi-racial teenager back in the 1980s, abducted from her bedroom and shot dead. The racial tensions of the time are clearly a factor - the DNA of a known racist is trapped in blood on the gun - but in a Michael Connolly novel, things are never as simple as they seem. And Bosch finds, not to his especial surprise, that he has been asked back into the LAPD as someone's weapon in the dance of departmental politics. The death of Backy Verloren was a tragedy - the investigation of her murder was a series of mistakes that left her father an alcoholic mess and her mother an obsessive trapped in the past, and someone profited by their misery. Connolly is always at his best when Harry is caught up in the problems of other people, rather than his own, and this excellent, twisty police procedural is a snappy return to form. --<i>Roz Kaveney</i>
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Orion mass market paperback Blood Work
Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, Connelly combines a poet's ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level. <p> In <I>Blood Work</I>, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's. <p> As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the apparent randomness of the crime gives way to the unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than any he ever encountered before.
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Orion mass market paperback The Poet
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Abacus Stamping Grounds: Exploring Liechtenstein and Its World Cup Dream
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Closers
<i> The Closers</i> puts Harry Bosch back in the Los Angelese Police Department, where he was meant to be, and sets him to solving old cases, which is what he always did best, alongside Kiz Rider, who was always the best of the partners fate, and Connolly, gave him. They are working on the death of a bi-racial teenager back in the 1980s, abducted from her bedroom and shot dead. The racial tensions of the time are clearly a factor - the DNA of a known racist is trapped in blood on the gun - but in a Michael Connolly novel, things are never as simple as they seem. And Bosch finds, not to his especial surprise, that he has been asked back into the LAPD as someone's weapon in the dance of departmental politics. The death of Backy Verloren was a tragedy - the investigation of her murder was a series of mistakes that left her father an alcoholic mess and her mother an obsessive trapped in the past, and someone profited by their misery. Connolly is always at his best when Harry is caught up in the problems of other people, rather than his own, and this excellent, twisty police procedural is a snappy return to form. --<i>Roz Kaveney</i>
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Lincoln Lawyer
It's always good to welcome a Michael Connelly novel, and <i>The Lincoln Lawyer</i> is a strong addition to the Connelly bookshelf. This stand-alone legal thriller has all the adroit plotting and no-nonsense prose that are Connelly's trademarks, with a particularly strong protagonist. <P>In the hierarchy of American lawyers, `Lincoln lawyers' are not held in the highest esteem. These are criminal defence attorneys who run their practices from a travelling Lincoln car, traversing the county of Los Angeles to hoover up whatever work is available, however basic. Connelly's tarnished hero is Mickey Heller, who has fine-tuned this less-than-impressive side of the legal profession to such a degree that few can match him: he knows all the ins and outs of the system, including precisely who to slip a back-hander to when appropriate. But Mickey finds a way to move upmarket when he acquires a well-heeled client. A rich young man from Beverly Hills has been arrested for savagely assaulting a woman, and the case falls in Mickey's lap. And though the lawyer is used to defending clients who are guilty as sin, it actually looks (for once) that his client is innocent. But Lincoln lawyers like Mickey are fully aware of the lottery that is their profession, and he isn't too surprised when the case goes pear-shaped. But (to his dismay) Mickey slowly learns that neither his client nor the victim in the case is quite what they seem to be, and soon there's a lot more than a penny-ante case at stake, with Mickey's life quite as much at risk as any reputation he might have. <P> Connelly fans (an ever-growing army) will be pleased to hear that all the customary traits are fully on offer here, with one key component even more finely honed than usual: the gritty, idiomatic dialogue, which is richer and more entertaining than usual. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Kogan Page Ltd Careers in Human Resource Management (Kogan Page Careers in S.)
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Time Warner AudioBooks Attention All Shipping
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Orion mass market paperback Trunk Music
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Orion mass market paperback Lost Light
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Longman We Can Take It!
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Royal Historical Society The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New S.)
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Lincoln Lawyer
It's always good to welcome a Michael Connelly novel, and <i>The Lincoln Lawyer</i> is a strong addition to the Connelly bookshelf. This stand-alone legal thriller has all the adroit plotting and no-nonsense prose that are Connelly's trademarks, with a particularly strong protagonist. <P>In the hierarchy of American lawyers, `Lincoln lawyers' are not held in the highest esteem. These are criminal defence attorneys who run their practices from a travelling Lincoln car, traversing the county of Los Angeles to hoover up whatever work is available, however basic. Connelly's tarnished hero is Mickey Heller, who has fine-tuned this less-than-impressive side of the legal profession to such a degree that few can match him: he knows all the ins and outs of the system, including precisely who to slip a back-hander to when appropriate. But Mickey finds a way to move upmarket when he acquires a well-heeled client. A rich young man from Beverly Hills has been arrested for savagely assaulting a woman, and the case falls in Mickey's lap. And though the lawyer is used to defending clients who are guilty as sin, it actually looks (for once) that his client is innocent. But Lincoln lawyers like Mickey are fully aware of the lottery that is their profession, and he isn't too surprised when the case goes pear-shaped. But (to his dismay) Mickey slowly learns that neither his client nor the victim in the case is quite what they seem to be, and soon there's a lot more than a penny-ante case at stake, with Mickey's life quite as much at risk as any reputation he might have. <P> Connelly fans (an ever-growing army) will be pleased to hear that all the customary traits are fully on offer here, with one key component even more finely honed than usual: the gritty, idiomatic dialogue, which is richer and more entertaining than usual. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Closers
<i> The Closers</i> puts Harry Bosch back in the Los Angelese Police Department, where he was meant to be, and sets him to solving old cases, which is what he always did best, alongside Kiz Rider, who was always the best of the partners fate, and Connolly, gave him. They are working on the death of a bi-racial teenager back in the 1980s, abducted from her bedroom and shot dead. The racial tensions of the time are clearly a factor - the DNA of a known racist is trapped in blood on the gun - but in a Michael Connolly novel, things are never as simple as they seem. And Bosch finds, not to his especial surprise, that he has been asked back into the LAPD as someone's weapon in the dance of departmental politics. The death of Backy Verloren was a tragedy - the investigation of her murder was a series of mistakes that left her father an alcoholic mess and her mother an obsessive trapped in the past, and someone profited by their misery. Connolly is always at his best when Harry is caught up in the problems of other people, rather than his own, and this excellent, twisty police procedural is a snappy return to form. --<i>Roz Kaveney</i>
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I B Tauris & Co Ltd Christmas: A Social History
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Lost Light
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Narrows
Sequels are all about expectations fulfilled: <I>The Narrows</I> is at once a new novel about Michael Connolly's series hero Harry Bosch, cop turned private eye, and a sequel to <I>The Poet</I>, his most highly regarded stand-alone thriller. Harry is investigating the death of Terry McCaleb--the former FBI man who dominated in <I>Blood Work</I>; Rachel Walling has been recalled from administrative exile when the Poet, her former boss Backus, starts killing again and sending taunts intended for her and McCaleb (who he also trained).<p> Connolly is very good on the psychology of investigation and on the essential voyeurism involved in contemplating someone else's mental processes. This is a book with a strong sense of place--Connolly can find menace anywhere from the desert of Nevada to the half-hidden dangerous LA river that gives the book its evocative title. If the book has a weakness, it is in the personal interactions of the two detectives--both Harry and Rachel act according to scripts we know well from previous adventures. Nevertheless, <I>The Narrows</I> is one of America's major thriller writers at the top of his game.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Orion mass market paperback The Concrete Blonde
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Time Warner AudioBooks Attention All Shipping
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Orion Chasing the Dime
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Void Moon
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Orion mass market paperback The Narrows
Sequels are all about expectations fulfilled: <I>The Narrows</I> is at once a new novel about Michael Connolly's series hero Harry Bosch, cop turned private eye, and a sequel to <I>The Poet</I>, his most highly regarded stand-alone thriller. Harry is investigating the death of Terry McCaleb--the former FBI man who dominated in <I>Blood Work</I>; Rachel Walling has been recalled from administrative exile when the Poet, her former boss Backus, starts killing again and sending taunts intended for her and McCaleb (who he also trained).<p> Connolly is very good on the psychology of investigation and on the essential voyeurism involved in contemplating someone else's mental processes. This is a book with a strong sense of place--Connolly can find menace anywhere from the desert of Nevada to the half-hidden dangerous LA river that gives the book its evocative title. If the book has a weakness, it is in the personal interactions of the two detectives--both Harry and Rachel act according to scripts we know well from previous adventures. Nevertheless, <I>The Narrows</I> is one of America's major thriller writers at the top of his game.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Orion mass market paperback Angels Flight
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Poet
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Abacus Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) The Narrows [Abridged version]
Sequels are all about expectations fulfilled: <I>The Narrows</I> is at once a new novel about Michael Connolly's series hero Harry Bosch, cop turned private eye, and a sequel to <I>The Poet</I>, his most highly regarded stand-alone thriller. Harry is investigating the death of Terry McCaleb--the former FBI man who dominated in <I>Blood Work</I>; Rachel Walling has been recalled from administrative exile when the Poet, her former boss Backus, starts killing again and sending taunts intended for her and McCaleb (who he also trained).<p> Connolly is very good on the psychology of investigation and on the essential voyeurism involved in contemplating someone else's mental processes. This is a book with a strong sense of place--Connolly can find menace anywhere from the desert of Nevada to the half-hidden dangerous LA river that gives the book its evocative title. If the book has a weakness, it is in the personal interactions of the two detectives--both Harry and Rachel act according to scripts we know well from previous adventures. Nevertheless, <I>The Narrows</I> is one of America's major thriller writers at the top of his game.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Thomson Learning The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era
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Oxford University Press Inc, USA A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era
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I B Tauris & Co Ltd The Charge of the Light Brigade (British Film Guide S.)
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Squadron/Signal Publications Inc.,U.S. PT Boats in Action
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