Book Details
| Title: | The Waiting | |
| Author: | Michael Connelly | |
| Times Read: | 1 | |
| Last Read: | 11.03.24 |
Other Books Read By This Author (39)
- 9 Dragons
- Angels Flight
- The Black Box
- The Black Echo
- The Black Ice
- Blood Work
- The Brass Verdict
- The Burning Room
- Chasing the Dime
- City of Bones
- The Closers
- The Concrete Blonde
- Crime Beat
- The Crossing
- The Dark Hours
- Dark Sacred Night
- A Darkness More Than Night
- Desert Star
- The Drop
- Echo Park
- Fair Warning
- The Fifth Witness
- The Gods of Guilt
- The Last Coyote
- The Late Show
- The Law of Innocence
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- Lost Light
- The Narrows
- The Night Fire
- The Overlook
- The Poet
- Resurrection Walk
- The Reversal
- The Scarecrow
- Trunk Music
- Two Kinds of Truth
- Void Moon
- The Wrong Side of Goodbye
| Date Read | Note |
| 11.03.24 | This year's Connelly follows Ballard and her cold-case unit. I tell ya, I think the last couple books have kind of been more like checking in with characters you love? But the level at which we check in each year is so friggin high. To me, this felt the most like a given couple weeks in Ballard's life so at the start there's a few cases in-progress already, we kinda know the whole crew there thanks to previous books, she gets her badge stolen but can't report it because she's afraid they'll use it against her. That becomes a whole thing. Meanwhile, the "main" case of the book is this familial DNA hit on a judge's son so that's a whole thing, then Maddie Bosch starts working part time at the unit and she has her own case that she brings in. I remember not too long ago Connelly in interviews had a novel concept to cover two cases in one book because that's how detectives actually work. Now he's got like half a dozen cases and I'm still like "good to check in! nothing major happening!". I suppose that's because compared to earlier works like 9 Dragons the stakes were very high for Bosch, but I also remember in my notes on here saying "I wish the stakes didn't have to be so high, how many spouses can you kill off!?" so when I get it I'm like "they all blur together." Basically, I'm the worst. The level of plot construction going on here is crazy, and that the book reads so fast and so easily is a huge testament to Connelly's facility as a writer. I do think this book will stick out because Connelly finally "solves" the Black Dahlia. It's quite an odd choice to pick it up now after so long. I wonder if he'd been wanting to work it in for years or what because it's pretty random and out of the blue and, in Connelly's universe anyway, an undeniable answer to the enduring mystery of the case. I wonder if this book is gonna be the first season of their new Ballard TV show or something... it'd be an odd place to start but bringing that case in is also an odd choice! I'll have to listen to some interviews to see if he has anything to say on the subject. Finally, for being billed as a Ballard/Bosch book, Harry Bosch is almost not in it at all. I'm not unhappy about that. I think his age has basically written him into supporting status. It's really all one universe now anyway with this book mentioning Mickey Haller and I think maybe even a DA from the Lincoln Lawyer books getting name-checked here as well, so whoever the protagonists are is fine by me, but you know... some Ballard/Bosch books are like 50/50 with chapters from both perspectives. Here Bosch is little more than a cameo. Anyway, liked this one a lot. It's a recent stand-out for sure. |
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