Angels Flight

Homicide detective Hieronymous Harry Bosch is up to his very stiff neck in politics, police corruption and racial tension. When Howard Elias, an African American lawyer famous for suing the LAPD for racially motivated brutality, is shot dead on the short train run up a steep hill in downtown L.A. known as Angels Flight Bosch and his team are ***igned the highly sensitive case. Bosch deals with racial and departmental political hokum, he goes into the case knowing that cops will be among the suspects, plus his new wife has returned to gambling. This book was done after the Rodney King riots in L.A. so racial tensions flow throughout the book which tended to put me on edge while reading this, also one wonders how any crimes get solved if the Los Angels police department is as corrupt as it is portrayed in this book. I enjoyed this book but got real tired of all the constant the city is going to burn mentality as well as the boulder on the shoulder of other charectors

This is another very good entry in Michael Connelly's series featuring L.A. homicide detective Harry Bosch. The case opens in the middle of the night when Harry's team is called out to the scene of a double homicide. A man and a woman have been shot to death on a trolley called Angels Flight. Harry......more

Harry Bosch #6, Bosch Universe #7: Angels Flight in LA., the 'world's shortest railway' becomes a crime scene when two passengers' murdered corpse are found. It turns out that one of the victims is a prominent African-American lawyer who already beaten the LAPD in court many times was about to nail......more

5★ “To these detractors he was the scum of the legal system, a courtroom magician who could reach into the deck at any place and still pull out the race card.” This magician/scum was Howard Elias, a notorious civil rights attorney, who was brilliant at gaming the system and keeping the Los Angeles Pol......more

3/5 Estrellas Parece que los tiempos están cambiando y nuestro detective Harry Bosch no solo ha dejado de fumar (dejémoslo en que está intentándolo), sino que llegando al nuevo milenio, asistimos al desembarco de las tecnologías digitales, con todo lo que supone en cuanto a nuevas formas de delinquir......more

That’s the trouble with a Connelly and especially a Harry Bosch. Every page turn brings you closer to an end you want to delay…for the story to go on and on. This is my 33rd by the Author all read out of order of course. I remember this story from a Bosch tv programme but it was definitely different......more