Pasaje Al Paraiso / Passage to the Paraiso (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Michael Connelly (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ediciones B (July 2005)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8466621806
• ISBN-13: 978-8466621809
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,584,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mafia, LAPD & FBI in Though Competition!, September 29, 2006

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Maximiliano F Yofre "Maxi" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pasaje Al Paraiso / Passage to the Paraiso (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I am not very prone to read "crime" books. Nevertheless as I'm recovering from a surgery, my sister gave me some books to read while I get well.

Amongst these books was Michael Connelly's "Pasaje al Paraiso" (dubious translated title for "Trunk Music"). Nevertheless Ediciones B thru its Byblos pocket book collection is putting at disposition of Spanish language readers a fair number of popular modern novels.

Now I know it is the fifth volume of Harry Bosch series.

Harry is a hardboiled LAPD detective officer with all the traits that this kind of characters usually show: rough, dogged, fast minded and loyal to his friends and team mates.

He is also overzealous of "his cases" and quite disrespectful of "standard procedures".

The story is as follows: a police officer finds a corpse in a car's trunk. Bosch is just back into LAPD after some sort of license and is called with his two partners, Jerry Edgar and Kiz Rider, to take charge of the investigation.

The first part of the novel follows the ins and outs of the inquiry. The author describes minutely all investigative routines.

Little by little the plot starts to get complex. First following a Mafia thread, then with different police departments in different cities and FBI's teams getting mixed up and crisscrossing their threads.

From here on action get going faster and faster with every group pursuing their own agenda and competing with the rest.

Michael Connelly very neatly ties all threads and arrives to a satisfactory ending.

"Trunk Music" is a good "cops novel" deserving to be read by every true buff!

Reviewed by Max Yofre.