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The Concrete Blonde

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Four years ago, Harry Bosch shot the notorious serial killer The Dollmaker." Now Harry is accused of killing the wrong man."

When maverick LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker, the city's most bizarre serial killer. But now Norman Church's widow is accusing Bosch of killing the wrong man - and to make things worse, Bosch has just received a taunting note that appears to be from the Dollmaker himself. Same handwriting, same awful poetry.

Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copy-cat killer determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats and destroy Bosch's career in the process?

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 30, 1994
      In this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly's LAPD detective Hieronymous ``Harry'' Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-winning The Black Echo , is up against the law as well as his superiors. The widow of Norman Church, a serial killer identified as the Dollmaker, whom Bosch shot to death four years earlier, is suing Bosch on the grounds that he violated her husband's civil rights. Strong but not conclusive evidence linked Church to the serial murders and the case was closed, although Bosch was demoted for not following proper procedures. Here, just before the trial targeting Bosch as a reckless cowboy who shot the wrong man gets underway, the body of perhaps another Dollmaker victim is unearthed from the concrete floor of a burnt-out pool hall. Is the real Dollmaker still alive, or is a copycat killer on the loose? Connelly deftly parcels out clues and possibilities while juggling subtle and detailed courtroom scenes with no-nonsense police investigations that turn up new evidence about the original case. A Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , he adroitly laces the plot with twists and turns based on details drawn from Bosch's previous adventures. The results of this care show on every page, all to the reader's benefit.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 3, 1995
      Connelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, combines courtroom drama and police procedural in this thriller about a serial killer thought dead.

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