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From Michael Connellyit started from a good feeling: to leave Los Angeles, to consider a new character in another context to avoid repeating itself. The novelist has long been alternating his heroes, between Harry Bosch, now aging on Cold Cases, his half-brother lawyer Mickey Haller, inspector Renée Ballard and Jack McEvoy the journalist. Here is that Inspector Stilwell, investigator on the small quiet island of Santa Catalina appears where murders are rare. But the author of Los Angeles sewers missed his blow. No rhythm, a criminal story that does not interest anyone, foul characters, a cop of great banality and a writing that is dragged … Under the Avalon waters is a thriller to forget.

The publishers reappear the figures: 89 million pounds sold worldwide, 10 million in France, masterpieces as The poet. Too many books no doubt, not to mention the success on platforms that offer series like Bosch With Titus Welliver on Video Prime or Mickey Haller With Manuel Garcia-Rulfo on Netflix before that of Ballard soon interpreted by Maggie Q.

Quickly close this novel without roughness to reread, well why not, The concrete blonde (1994). There too, there is a murdered woman’s corpse, but it is the only common point.