The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his victims. Now, with a single faultless shot, Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city’s nightmare.
But the dead man’s widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man—an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker’s macabre signature.
So, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It’s a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go—the darkness of his own heart.
Another outstanding addition to the Harry Bosch Chronicle. Harry Bosch is in trouble. His lethal force action in the infamous Doll Maker serial murder case has once again been called into doubt when the widow of the killer, Norman Church, presses a high dollar civil suit against the city employing one of the best civil attorneys in the city, Honey (Money) Chandler. Money Chandler is bent on making Harry look like an out of control trigger happy cop who shot first and set up evidence later and she is skilled enough to do it. It looks bad for Harry and…
Good books an a great reference to good Jazz I read this a long time ago. It was great then, but it was so much better when I re-read it it order. I got the Bosch bug again watching the series online. I thought that I had all of the books, so I started reading them again from the beginning. The author ties the plotline to real events to provide a real time reference to the plot. The plot is filled with a lot of subtle undercurrents, station politics, department politics, that are thematic and indicative of Bosch’s struggle with the…
Apparently, Blondes Don’t Have More Fun Damn that Michael Connelly. I stayed up reading until 2:30 in the morning because I wanted to finish ‘The Concrete Blonde’. In Harry Bosch’s third adventure in the series, the detective is standing trial for his actions in killing a serial killer four years earlier. When the police receive a note from the supposedly dead killer, it throws Bosch’s world into utter chaos. He’s certain that the Dollmaker was the guilty party, but how do they explain the new note with directions to the discovery of…