Book Review: The Narrows

Reviewed By: Woodstock - RAM

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Michael Connelly
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Police Procedural
Series: Harry Bosch # 10

Connelly begins this book with two stories, as Harry Bosch investigates the death of his friend retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb (the protagonist of Connelly's "Blood Work"), and as FBI agent Rachel Waller is called by her superiors to the California desert where a grisly cache of bodies has been discovered. Waller was a lead investigator into the so called "Poet" case.

In the course of his investigation, Bosch shows up at the desert scene where bodies are being unearthed, and Waller makes the connection that the two cases are actually one.

Connelly shifts between a first person narrative by Bosch, a third person narrative from Waller's point of view, and occasional shifts to a third point of view, that of the serial killer Bob Backus. The reader knows from the start that the villian of "The Poet" is back and up to his murderous ways. These shifts in the narrative keep the reader fully engaged in the story.

As the book ends, still more changes are ahead for Harry Bosch.

Woodstock - RAM

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