Angels Flight (Harry Bosch)

Good read. This book takes place a couple of years after OJ and Rodney King and addressed the racial politics within the LAPD as a Johnnie Cochran-like defense attorney is assassinated while riding the LA incline known as Angels Flight. As usual, LA is vividly used as the backdrop in this story about rich and poor, black and white; and done so with a prescient insight into how entities such...more

Good read. This book takes place a couple of years after OJ and Rodney King and addressed the racial politics within the LAPD as a Johnnie Cochran-like defense attorney is assassinated while riding the LA incline known as Angels Flight. As usual, LA is vividly used as the backdrop in this story about rich and poor, black and white; and done so with a prescient insight into how entities such as the LAPD and civil rights groups use the volatile events surrounding the murder to their advantage. There are enough twists and turns to keep the regular reader engaged. However, the subplot between Bosch and his wife take a drag on the main story line as well as portraying Bosch in a manner most might be unaccustomed to.   hide