She attended Penn State University as a criminal justice major with a minor in accounting before being recruited into the FBI. In terms of her personality, Eleanor is a risk-taker and sometimes exhibits very poor judgement about other people and herself. She lived in a rent-controlled townhouse near the beach in Santa Monica, a short commute to the Federal Building in Westwood. She was married and divorced some years prior to meeting Bosch and she kept her husband's surname. She had a dark tan and wore little makeup. She was a petite, lithesome woman with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair with blonde highlights, dark eyes and a small, crescent shaped scar on her chin, the result of a childhood accident. 13 Sept 2009) was the younger sister of Michael Scarletti, the ex-wife of Harry Bosch, and the mother of Madeline Bosch. I especially liked his ability to portray Harry’s emotions.Eleanor D. His female characters could use more femininity. He did a good job here, keeping all the male characters distinct. The Narration: Dick Hill is a favorite go-to narrator for me. In general, it’s a decent start to a series and I will probably check out more books by this author.
The mystery itself was interesting for the most part, though there were times I felt that Harry or another character did something out of character just to up the drama or move the plot forward. So I really liked that he’s this older cop (early 40s) whose got this interesting past and knows that he truly wants to be in law enforcement. He’s got a lovely house because a movie company paid him handsomely to use his name in a movie that was loosely based on a case he was involved in. Harry doesn’t hate prostitutes and seems to have a protective streak in general for women. His mother was a prostitute who was murdered. I hope the author can do more with her character in future books.ĭespite the typical plot points for this genre, Harry stands out for a few things. Still, she has her secrets and this gave her a little depth. This story is rather light on female characters and when we do get an interesting one, Elizabeth Wish with the FBI, she’s quickly turned into a romantic interest. Now that his old Vietnam buddy, Billy Meadows, has been found dead, his PTSD is stirred up. Either his lieutenant is yelling at him or the Internal Affairs office is threatening him.
He smokes, doesn’t eat healthy, and drinks beer. Harry has a chip on his shoulder and not much going on outside of his job. In fact, I think the tried & tested cliches made it easy to slip into the book. While this book did have many cliched plot points, I still enjoyed it. Internal strife in the LAPD and the involvement of the FBI make life hard for Harry. In fact, he identifies the victim, having served with him in Vietnam. Set in Los Angeles in perhaps the early 1990s, Harry Bosch is on the case of a dead man found in a drainage pipe.
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