April 24, 2019
The fifth season of the detective/thriller series Bosch started streaming on Amazon Prime Video last week. Bosch is based on the twenty-one best-selling and brilliant Harry Bosch novels written by Michael Connelly, starting with The Black Echo…
December 2, 2014
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but my two absolute favorite detective fiction series feature main characters who are Vietnam War veterans. That would be Dave Robicheaux, the flawed Cajun detective hero of twenty smashingly good procedural/thrillers…
October 18, 2013
I can’t say it better than Lee Child: “Martin Limon is one of the best military writers ever. His stories are addictive entertainment today---and valuable slices of history tomorrow.” The two protagonists on the seventeen…
October 9, 2013
I've lost track of how many of James Lee Burke's entertaining and literarily satisfying Dave Robicheaux detective thrillers I've read since 1993 when I was blown away by the sixth book in the series, In…
January 19, 2013
In Rudolph Pommer Saxon's novel Expiation (CreateSpace, 362 pp., $9.99, paper) the title is explained early on, well before the first chapter starts. There is no biographical information on Saxon, nothing to indicate that he has…
November 23, 2012
Twenty years ago, I opened the pages of a first novel by a young former Los Angeles Times police reporter about a quirky, troubled L.A. homicide detective: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly. I was…
December 15, 2011
I have been a big, big fan of Michael Connelly’s best-selling Harry Bosch detective procedural novels since the first one, the Edgar-Award-winning The Black Echo , burst on the scene in 1992. Bosch is an…