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Review: Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
Posted on Saturday 13 December @ 05:33:37
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Every month (or thereabout) HGLEE.COM will review a book or film. Each work will have a brief review and a quick link to Amazon, should you decide to pick up a copy for yourself. This month's selection: Michael Connelly's Chasing the Dime.
Superb! Connelly at his absolute best...Michael Connelly has taken his well established mastery of the hard-boiled detective novel and given it masterful and bewildering twists. Fans of this author return again and again to consume tales about the inimitable Harry Bosch, and it is this reviewer's humble opinion that the Bosch chronicles sit comfortably among the finest detective fiction of the 20th century. While Bosch is not the driving force of Chasing the Dime, Connelly's mastery of his art is every bit as evident in this latest installment.
The author wastes no time introducing the reader to Henry Pierce, a brilliant scientist who is the chief chemist and chief executive officer of his own research and development company, Amedeo Technologies. Pierce is a driven individual who, like most men of independent vision, spends more time in the lab than in any other area of his life. This routine, however, is disturbed when his long-time, live-in girlfriend leaves him and quits her job as the chief intelligence officer for Amedeo.
Forced to pack up his life and relocate his residence and many of the comforts that he took for granted over the years, Henry is quickly installed in a chic apartment building on the beaches of Los Angeles. During the move, Henry is assigned a new phone number with an unfortunate pedigree. From the moment he plugs in his new phone, Henry receives call upon call for a Lilly Quinlan, who is clearly an escort of some kind. His curiosity piqued by circumstances, personal history, and the scientist's consuming need to know, Henry begins to investigate why Lilly is unavailable to field her own calls. What unfolds is as intriguing as it is plausible.
Connelly has elevated the science of deduction into a high art form in this novel. The actions and motives of all characters, both primary and secondary, are realistic and credible. True to form, Connelly gives the reader reason to care about these characters and motive enough to dig and dig until the story unfolds completely.
I can think of no stand-alone novel that I've enjoyed more this year than Chasing the Dime. Connelly has once again shared his inimitable talents with a large and well deserved fan base, and he has done so outside of the traditional vehicle upon which he built his record. I look forward to many more from this master of detective fiction.
See my review of: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly.
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