8. Blood Work - Michael Connelly

AUDIO Read by Dick Hill
For: Adults
Book Pub: 1998
Audio: 1998 Brilliance
11 discs/13 hours
480 pgs.
Rating: 5 Connelly never disappoints! How does he do it, over and over again?
Finished: Jan. 28, 2009

Different protagonist, same setting. This is Terry McCaleb's first outing, but the story is set in LA, as are all Connelly's Harry Bosch novels. I read this before the next Harry Bosch, since the two protagonists will apparently come
together. Clint Eastwood was Terry McCaleb in a 2002 movie -- the storyline did not seem at all familiar, so I guess I didn't see the movie, which is hard to believe, but I've put it next on my queueueue (I never know how to spell that word) at Netflix.

Terry McCaleb used to be an FBI whiz. Now he's an unemployed transplanted heart recipient living on a broken-down sailboat in a somewhere-near-LA marina. A lovely young women tracks him down after a newspaper article about his transplant, asking him to investigate the murder of her sister - the woman whose heart is now beating in Terry's chest. What follows is a satisfying story that goes a mile-a-minute. He's clever. So is the murderer. And then it gets REALLY personal. Too personal for Terry. Love. Mystery. Fast paced. Really good. Thank goodness there's more to come!