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Michael Connelly often has his finger on the pulse of interesting issues, but reading a preview copy of The Proving Ground in a week where the dangers of AI, debate … Read More
Michael Connelly’s iconic detective, Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch has become something of an institution over the last thirty years, graduating from the page into two successful television series starring Titus Welliver. … Read More
Charlie Parker is hired by an up-and-coming sculptor Zetta Nadeau to find why her boyfriend, Wyatt Riggins, has apparently vanished. Parker is initially skeptical that the man wants to be … Read More
When still a young boy, Dan Garvie, narrowly avoided the clutches of a notorious serial killer, but ever since he’s quietly wondered if his actions on the day doomed another … Read More
Those awaiting more dark and twisted tales of troubled detective Charlie Parker will have to wait until 2025 (and the forthcoming novel The Children of Eve) but in the meantime … Read More
When Renée Ballard’s police ID and badge are stolen while she’s out surfing, it’s just the start of a tsunami of complications that will affect her and her team at … Read More
A woman named Colleen Clark is arrested after an investigation into her son’s disappearance uncovers a bloodied blanket in her car. Did she kill infant Henry Clark? Subsequent news reports … Read More
Harry Bosch may have left the police, but his life’s mission hasn’t changed. He still wants to see justice done… because, as his mantra goes: ‘everyone counts or nobody counts‘. … Read More
With Renée Ballard now heading up a newly-formed cold-case unit – a result of being able to choose her next position (after events in The Dark Hours) – she assembles … Read More
The innate problem with creating an anthology of stories around the Predator race is that the franchise itself has mostly had one story to tell, hunter/hunted, which it has sought … Read More
When last we ventured into the dark, mysterious lands and outlying territories inhabited by John Connolly’s saviours and miscreants, the tome (The Nameless Ones) was mainly concerned with Louis and … Read More
It’s New Year’s Eve 2020 and as the clock ticks over into a new year, Renee Ballard hopes that 2021 won’t bring any more unpleasant surprises. In the short and … Read More
After the events of A Book of Bones, the repercussions of the actions taken by Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel in Europe have finally started to ripple out. The Vuksans … Read More
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Illustrated Handbook Though The Next Generation gets the bulk of the press for Trek’s resurgence in the 1980/1990s, it’s not difficult to find … Read More
Attorney Mickey Haller has just won another case and is in the mood to celebrate. But on the way home from a subsequent party, he is pulled over by the … Read More
