Me ha gustado, y el suspense es bueno. Aunque admito que habiendo visto la película, la sorpresa y el misterio ha sido 0. Eso me ha fastidiado un poco la lectura. Pero es una lectura recomendable y está bien escrito.Me he quedado un poco descolocada, porque el final de la película no es igual al del libro... no sé si en todo porque con los motes ando perdida.... eso ha sido muy bueno jajajaNo había leído nada de este autor y la experiencia ha sido muy entretenidaNada como estar de vacaciones y con mal tiempo para dar un estirón a las lecturas pendientes ;)

4 ½ stars. Wow. This was good. A lot of things I didnt expect. I didnt want to stop reading.STORY BRIEF:McCaleb is 46 years old, retired from the FBI, and lives on a fishing boat in a Los Angeles Harbor. Two months earlier Gloria was killed in a convenience store hold up. Her organs went to several people. McCaleb got her heart. Glorias sister Graciela, a nurse, figures this out and asks McCaleb to help find the shooter. The police have stopped working on the case and are either incompetent or dont care. Partly out of guilt, McCaleb begins investigating. Since he no longer has a badge its difficult for him to get information, but hes resourceful and effective.REVIEWERS OPINION:This definitely is not a formulaic slowly uncovering the clues kind of story. Yes it is a police procedural and we do slowly uncover clues, but it is fascinating and entertaining during the process. The only reason I didnt give it 5 stars was because it was almost too good in the following ways. (1) Toward the end, it kept me awake one night. I couldnt stop thinking about it too much anxiety and fear. (2) For a while, Terry is being framed. That plot device is not a favorite of mine. Its such a helpless victim feel when a killer plants evidence and then calls the police. Im fine with good guys being in danger, but doing it that way is more frustrating than entertaining.Its interesting to think about how times have changed. The characters didnt use cell phones in this story - the way we do today. The cops used pagers. McCaleb used pay phones a lot. This is not a complaint, just something I noticed.THE MOVIE:Clint Eastwood played McCaleb in the 2002 movie of this book.NARRATOR:Dick Hill was very good.SERIES:The author has four series. The characters sometimes overlap and refer to each other. So far each book Ive read could be read as a stand-alone, but I like doing them in chronological order. The chronological order is as follows.Harry Bosch books 1 through 5 (Harry is LA homicide detective)McCaleb book 1 (this book he is former FBI)Bosch book 6 Angels FlightBosch book 7 and McCaleb book 2 A Darkness More Than Night (Theyre working on the same killer.)DATA:Unabridged audiobook length: 12 hrs and 41 mins. Narrator: Dick Hill. Swearing language: strong but not frequently used. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: two, told not shown. Setting: 1995 or earlier mostly Los Angeles, California, plus Mexico. Book Copyright: 1998. Genre: crime mystery thriller. Ending: Satisfying. The good guys win.

This title was included in last year's World Book Night -- thousands of copies of reader favorites were published and distributed at no cost to encourage literacy. A stack of this one ended up at our public library (not enough takers?) and then donated to our prison book group. Connelly's written a lot of books, and since this was the only one of his on Book Night's list, I figured it must be representative of his best. I'm not entirely disappointed. The plot is thick with detail, and the first two-hundred pages build slowly on a clever mix of fact and intuition. But my usual response to crime procedurals was repeated -- the climax was satisfying, but the closure was too much, and I wished the tale had ended 50 pages earlier. It felt like an attempt to answer every question, but the page count was getting too long, so our hero began making huge, miraculously accurate assumptions that, earlier in the book would have been justified on every detail, but, coming at the end, the reader is expected to just go with it to help us all get to the end without too many explanations. Connelly does a nice job of researching his work, with a major exception to all things digital. Connelly is clearly uncomfortable with the details of computer hacking, and glosses over some major inconsistencies, and I don't believe it's to protect the reader from too much info, but rather to hide Connelly's lack of knowledge. It doesn't ruin the story in any way, but his lack of specificity here stands in contrast to his detailed explanations elsewhere. This book is older now, so maybe he's stepped it up since, but if your thriller hinges on digital skills, you should be able to express them with a little more finesse. Connelly has that rare skill of working a story backwards, then peeling it layer by layer, so that the end product is a vastly different idea than the one we started with. That's the skill that makes a thriller so much fun to read, and for that reason, I enjoyed this one. We'll see what they guys thought this weekend...