The Black Box
“The Black Box” is the 18th book in Michael Connelly’s well-known crime thriller series. The book opens in gloomy Los Angeles, the center of crime. Detective Harry Bosch works tirelessly on a 20-year-old cold case and may finally have made his break. Bosch links a bullet from a different crime to the case file of a photographer’s murder. The book references the L.A. riots, where the cold case murder originally took place. Bosch realizes that this murder was not random at all, but rather a preemptive, vicious attack on the victim. Bosch is determined to solve this case. “The Black Box” is well-written, descriptive, and flows nicely. However, I feel this book is not aimed at my demographic. The book appears to have been written for an older, male audience. So I did not enjoy the book as much as the average Connelly reader. It simply was not written for the average college student.
