- Mass Market Paperback: 427 pages
- Publisher: Saint Martin's Press; Reissue edition (Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312963297
- ISBN-13: 978-0312963293
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,133,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The 5th Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author. The murder of a Hollywood producer has all the signs of a Mafia hit but something doesn't add up to Harry Bosch.
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Crime Thriller where a detective investigates a mafia hit on a man with who he discovers has a complex past running up to his demise.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This may not be Connelly's best, but the standard he has set is exceptional.
I concede the plot is very complicated and jumpy - but, hey, not all murder investigations are straight forward! I was certainly never lost, and Connelly gently moves towards a solution, even if there are some sideways off-shoots.
The story telling, descriptions and character portraits are as fantastic as ever. Bosch is a detective with plenty left in him, especially since Connelly takes time off with other characters.
The best Connelly I can recommend is "The Poet."
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Harry Bosch returns in this novel by Michael Connelly in what reads initially as his most straight forward adventure to date. A body has been discovered abandoned in the boot of a car, execution style. All indicators point towards a mafia-style hit and the victims connections to the seedier side of Las Vegas. However, Bosch knows that it’s the details that break the case and he feels it's going a bit too easily - is Harry right?
Bosch is a very dark character and in 'Trunk Music' I feel he is at his darkest yet. If he is not pointing a gun at someone’s face he is kneeing them in the stomach. Perhaps Connelly has gone a bit too far into this area of Bosch's character as its hard to feel sympathetic to a cop that busts heads - characters with arguably a similar mentality are depicted as White Supremacists!
'Trunk Music' is still a very good novel even with its dark nature. The story follows a more linear path than the earlier books but drops off with twists near the end. The book goes into more detail of how a crime is solved and I found this more technical approach interesting.
Not quite as good as some of the earlier novels in the series but still a worthy addition to the fold.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is the fifth in the series built around L.A. homicide detective Harry Bosch, in my humble opinion the best of his kind in contemporary crime fiction. This particular episode isn't the best in the series I would concede, but it's still a well-written story and Bosch is such a magnetic and appealing character that his trials and tribulations are always good value for reading money. The essence of the tale is that a man has been found dead in the boot (trunk) of his own car and the murder bears the hallmarks of a mob assassination, as the victim is a known money-launderer for the Mafia with strong connections to Las Vegas organised crime. Immediately, Harry Bosch is assigned to the case to find out who did it and why. There are some twists and surprises on the journey.
There are two good reasons to pick out Trunk Music as landmark reads in the series, and those reasons are both female. First, this is the story that introduces us to Kiz Rider, who will play such a key role in future novels, and then there is Eleanor Wish, who appeared in Connelly's debut novel THE BLACK ECHO as an FBI agent but whose circumstances are very different five years on. The relationship between Wish and Bosch in this novel is appealing and shows a slightly different side to Harry's personality, but we see rather less into the mind of the slightly enigmatic Eleanor. The conclusion of their love affair (within the context of the story) is a little unconvincing, and if anything seems improbable. But this is nit-picking on my part, as the relationship is really just the 'love interest' aspect to a tale that is otherwise focused entirely on the investigation and which develops into another confrontation between Bosch and the Internal Affairs Department. It does puzzle me that for all Bosch's past successes in solving crimes spreading back 15 years, the IAD is constantly on his tail with a determination to have him ousted from the force at every opportunity. It makes for great reading though, and adds to the sense of pressure and tension.
This is another Connelly-Bosch book without conventional chapters by the way; instead the tale is broken up into a total of ten 'parts', some of them 100 pages long or more, so if you like to read in quick bursts then in the case of this novel you may need to plan it in advance. And if you are thinking of reading all of the Bosch stories, then don't miss this one, indeed I would recommend that you start at the beginning and read every single one - once again I would claim that there's no better crime fiction series than this one. In my opinion!
There are two good reasons to pick out Trunk Music as landmark reads in the series, and those reasons are both female. First, this is the story that introduces us to Kiz Rider, who will play such a key role in future novels, and then there is Eleanor Wish, who appeared in Connelly's debut novel THE BLACK ECHO as an FBI agent but whose circumstances are very different five years on. The relationship between Wish and Bosch in this novel is appealing and shows a slightly different side to Harry's personality, but we see rather less into the mind of the slightly enigmatic Eleanor. The conclusion of their love affair (within the context of the story) is a little unconvincing, and if anything seems improbable. But this is nit-picking on my part, as the relationship is really just the 'love interest' aspect to a tale that is otherwise focused entirely on the investigation and which develops into another confrontation between Bosch and the Internal Affairs Department. It does puzzle me that for all Bosch's past successes in solving crimes spreading back 15 years, the IAD is constantly on his tail with a determination to have him ousted from the force at every opportunity. It makes for great reading though, and adds to the sense of pressure and tension.
This is another Connelly-Bosch book without conventional chapters by the way; instead the tale is broken up into a total of ten 'parts', some of them 100 pages long or more, so if you like to read in quick bursts then in the case of this novel you may need to plan it in advance. And if you are thinking of reading all of the Bosch stories, then don't miss this one, indeed I would recommend that you start at the beginning and read every single one - once again I would claim that there's no better crime fiction series than this one. In my opinion!
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