The New York Times Sunday Magazine profiles Michael Connelly, who is back in California to promote his newest crime novel.
Connelly has written 14 novels since 1992, 10 of them — including The Narrows, just published by Little, Brown — featuring a Los Angeles police detective named Harry Bosch. And in many ways the Bosch novels amount to a chronicle of life in the Los Angeles Police Department in the post–Rodney King era. In Connelly’s unflattering portrayal, it is an angry, paranoid force, hamstrung by bureaucracy and riddled not so much by corruption (though there is some of that) but by petty jealousies, small–mindedness and self-aggrandizement.
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