Two Kinds of Truth by Michael ConnellyMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Jacket Blurb: Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's 3-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse.
Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues aren't keen to protect his reputation. He must fend for himself in clearing his name and keeping a clever killer in prison.
The two unrelated cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.
Read as an audio book.
Whoo. Book started out on the wrong note for me when Harry was a complete asshat during the start of the investigation by the San Fernando police department into the murder of two pharmacists. Can a character get anymore condescending and righteous toward his "co-workers" than Harry? I haven't found one yet.
So I gritted my teeth through the first several disks as Harry treated his fellow detectives like imbeciles who don't know how to do their job. Because, as I've noted before, "only" Harry knows how to be a detective.
I continued to roll my eyes when Harry went undercover. Harry's behavior was so implausible to me it was like watching a car collision in slow motion - it could only end one way. Yeah...no surprises there.
I had further issues with Bosch not telling his daughter Maddie he was going undercover because he "didn't want her to worry" (foreshadowing, anyone?) He kinda told Haller, who should have told Maddie when Maddie was frantically calling everyone to find out where Bosch was, but no, no one told Maddie and when they did finally connect, he tells her more than he told the DEA and San Fernando Police detectives. W.T.F?
Argh!
I also found Bosch to be a sanctimonious git when it came to the resolution of allegations that he - Bosch - planted evidence in a nearly 20 year old case. Haller did what Haller does best, and when Bosch found out how Haller manipulated the system (it was brilliant, actually...), Bosch got his knickers in a bind. Seriously - Haller just blew the whole prosecution out of the water and Bosch was indignant. W.T.F?
Gah!
So. Not my favorite in this series. I wasn't thrilled with the prescription drug plot and and the second plot of planting evidence was a bit too pat. A "gimmie" mystery if anything because readers of this series know it will end only one way.
Recommended if you're reading the whole series. Start at the beginning if you haven't read the Bosch books yet.
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