Black angels

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Black Angels (English: Angels Flight) is the eighth novel by the American crime novelist Michael Connelly . It is the sixth book in the Harry Bosch series, published in 1999, in German in 2000.

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Two people are found shot dead in a wagon of the Angels Flight funicular railway : the well-known African-American civil rights lawyer Howard Elias and Catalina Perez, a cleaning lady. The case is dicey for the LAPD leadership because Howard Elias' specialty has been bringing members of the Los Angeles Police Department to justice. And just such a process was to begin in a few days, in which Elias wanted to prove that the police had wrongly accused the accused Michael Harris of the murder of Stacey Kincaid, the daughter of the Los Angeles car czar, and had mistreated him in order to obtain the confession to force the innocent.

Deputy Chief Irvin Irving transfers the case to Harry Bosch, not least because Jerry Edgar and Kizmin Rider are two blacks on his team. In the files of the murdered attorney, Harry Bosch discovers evidence that the accused police officers actually committed the assaults they were accused of, although he would never have believed one of the accused, his former partner Frankie Sheehan, to do so.

Sheehan apparently had the wrong one in his sights. So Harry Bosch sets out to reopen the case of the kidnapping and murder of Stacey Kincaid. The investigation quickly reveals that the attorney had discovered a case of child pornography on the Internet and when Bosch investigates this, events develop dramatically.

Harry Bosch wants to get to the bottom of the matter. The police leadership, above all Irvin Irving, wants the LAPD's reputation to come out of the affair as unscathed as possible, even if the truth has to be twisted. Things don't get any easier with the fact that the Kincaids are one of the most powerful and influential families in Los Angeles.

Personally, Bosch is burdened not only by his disappointment with his former partner, but also by the fact that Eleanor Wish is leaving him. So he finally clears up the murder of the girl and the murders of Angels Flight, but the events roll over him.

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By his own account, Connelly chose the crime scene because he sees the funicular as a symbolic bridge and he always saw himself as the one who would kill someone there. The fourth season of the television series Bosch is based on this novel. The New York Times thinks the novel is involved. But Bosch is "a wonderful old-fashioned hero who is not afraid to go through the flames" and to suffer the pain for the reader. Publishers Weekly judged on the other hand that the novel developed the character of Harry Bosch in the direction of a Dirty Harry of today, away from the original wonderful character. The end was supported by an anti-establishment morality. It is by no means the best book in the Bosch series.

The Krimi-Couch thinks that the "story is plotted neatly and that the readers, especially in the last part, are successfully fooled". The author of the review also points out "the many 'chandleresque' 'tips and allusions" in the novel.

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  1. ↑ a b CBS News: The decades-long effort to save Los Angeles' iconic railway, Angels Flight CBS News, November 23, 2017
  2. ↑ Glenn Riedmeyer: Amazon extends “Bosch” early for a fifth season in: wunschliste.de
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Living and Dying in LA: “Bosch” continues in: Tagesspiegel, April 13, 2018
  4. ↑ Marilyn Stasio: Crime Reviewed This Week “Angels Flight” by Michael Connelly in: New York Times, January 24, 1999
  5. ^ Publishers Weekly: Angels Flight
  6. ↑ Michael Drewniok: Bosch blooms in: Krimi couch.de, May 2003
  7. ↑ fantasticfiction.com
  8. ↑ thrillingdetective.com