I wrote about discovering Michael Connelly as a writer of local (Los Angeles) crime fiction a while back and am only sorry that I didn't hear about his work sooner because I love to read about events - fiction or nonfiction - that take place in a topography and cityscape I'm familiar with. Now, I think that some day, far in the future I'm going to have to read one or both series from the first book forward. Of course each book stands alone but still, there are the subtle nuances of character building from the start, and I feel maybe I've missed out.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF PERHAPS Connelly has revealed this bit of information before or if I caught it, on page 132 of the hardback of The Fifth Witness, as the first of the revelation but it turns out that The Lincoln Lawyer has a half brother who is... Harry Bosch. Interestingly both men have teenage daughters and are divorced. And Connelly has set it up that at least one of these daughters may follow her father into police work so... does that mean that in a few years there will be crime fiction based in LA from a FEMALE POINT OF VIEW! I kind of hope so and I can't wait to see what he does, if so, with the sex scenes!
As I was reading I felt my self with the literary training turn on. This is not the self that usually reads for enjoyment nor the self that writes in long deep sessions of uninterruptable concentration. It's the self that says "Now exactly how did he pull this story off?" How much is in flow and how much is calculation? Does he have the plot charted before hand?
