A Letter Exchange with Elizabeth Heider

After reading May the Wolf Die I wrote to the author, Elizabeth Heider. She kindly replied. I appreciate her candour. Our exchange of letters is below. I look forward to her next book.

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Dear Elizabeth

Occasionally I write to an author about a book I have enjoyed and am reviewing in my blog, Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan.

I purchased May the Wolf Die late last year after seeing the New York Times recommendation. Whether through some form of divine guidance or merely coincidence I began reading May the Wolf Die the day after returning to Saskatchewan from a 37 day cruise which went from Rome to Cape Town.

Our first stop was in Naples where Sharon and I went on a tour to a pasta factory in Gragnano. As noted in my review we experienced the continuous drama of driving in Naples.

After leaving Europe the cruise went down the west coast of Africa, an area of the world with which you are very familiar through your work with the U.S. Navy.

I find being on a cruise ship for weeks to be an escape from the world. I lose track of the date and day of the week. Having no military experience I have wondered whether it is the same being on a warship. Was orientation to time different for you when deployed with the U.S. Navy on lengthy voyages?

I prefer reading a book by a new author to me before learning about the writer lest my thoughts on the book be influenced by their life. With May the Wolf Die I did not quite reach the end of the book before going online to read about you. The depth of knowledge about Naples and the U.S. Navy in the book prompted me to find about your life.

I was surprised when I read of your work history in physics and the U.S. Navy and the European Space Agency and Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence Science Research Laboratory and the commercial spaceflight industry. It is rare in my crime fiction reading experience to read an author who is both an accomplished scientist and a writer of mysteries.

Nothing I learned about your life affected my thoughts on the book. There is a link at the end of this letter to my review. I consider it a great book.

You stated in your website bio that:

I’ve always processed my experiences through writing. Fiction is particularly helpful because it helps me identify and tell the emotional truth of a situation while keeping my analytical proclivities at bay. My attempts at nonfiction become very academic - replete with facts and analyses, but absent the emotional and spiritual elements that are often the most essential parts of narrative truthtelling.

That passage prompted me to think about my own writing. I have not written fiction. As a lawyer for almost 50 years I have written letters, briefs, arguments, memos and opinions. As a sports columnist for 46 years I have written columns focused on the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. As a blogger I have written over 1,500 posts, mostly about books and authors. As a member of the Roman Catholic parish in Melfort I write and deliver reflections once or twice a year when the parish priest is absent and we have a lay presided service.

Reflecting on my writing made me realize it is analytical. There are few “emotional and spiritual elements” in my writing. There are personal reactions in my sports columns and blog posts but they are limited. The reflections for church are spiritual but also analytical in examining the readings from the Bible for the service.

I would be interested in knowing how you keep your “analytical proclivities at bay” in your fiction. I did not find May the Wolf Die analytical. I have read fiction that was essentially non-fiction with dialogue added. Your characters have developed personalities.

I would be equally interested in knowing your approach to learning about a new author to you.

Lastly I would be interested in knowing where you find the time to write crime fiction.

I will be posting this letter in my blog in a few days. If you are able to reply and are willing I would post your response with this letter or in a separate later post if I have already posted this letter. A reply can be sent to me at mysteriesandmore@gmail.com.

I look forward to reading more of your crime fiction. I think I will forgo looking up your scientific non-fiction.

All the best.

Bill Selnes

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Dear Bill,

Thank you so much for reaching out and for your thoughtful review of May the Wolf Die! I truly appreciate the time and care you put into reading and reflecting on my book. It’s wonderful to hear that it resonated with you. I'm glad to tell you that the next book in the series will come out in 2026 (I'm working on the edits right now).

Your cruise sounds like an incredible journey. Rome to Cape Town is an ambitious and fascinating route, especially with that stop in Naples. You’re absolutely right about the drama of driving there! It’s something that both fascinates and terrifies me in equal measure. I'm proud of my ability to maneuver in traffic there, and I have the traffic tickets to prove it. I also loved much of West Africa - I'm so glad you had those experiences and can treasure them for the rest of your life!

To answer your question about orientation to time on a Navy ship: yes, it is absolutely different. Long deployments, especially at sea, create an insular world where time takes on a strange elasticity. Without the usual markers of daily life, days blend together in a way that’s both disorienting and oddly liberating. There’s a rhythm to shipboard life - but it’s separate from the way time moves on land. Your description of losing track of the date on a cruise actually resonates a lot with my deployed experiences. The Navy culture on the ship was also a new experience for me (and a complete culture shock). The living conditions could be quite harsh, and this created an interesting dynamic with my shipmates. As a civilian, I struggled to earn my place and, at the end of a long deployment, felt intense gratitude and love for some people, and utter loathing for others. 

As for keeping my analytical tendencies at bay when writing fiction, that’s something I’ve had to learn over time. My background in science and analysis trained me to prioritize facts, logic, and clarity, but storytelling requires something different - an ability to sit with ambiguity, to allow characters to make imperfect decisions, and to prioritize emotional truth telling.

For me, writing about emotional and spiritual truths comes from two places. First, a personal need to understand and describe my own emotional landscape and also to sit in the discomfort of those emotions. It’s a process of discovery - one that fiction allows me to explore. I've tried to do this with non-fiction stories about my life, but I think that there's an instinctive shying-away from the vulnerability that's required. I'm somehow able to short-circuit this when I imagine fictional scenarios and people. Second, I love people, in all their messiness and beauty. Fiction gives me a way to inhabit different perspectives, to understand characters from the inside out, and to explore the contradictions that make them human. I think that’s why I gravitate toward crime fiction in particular. It’s a genre that naturally pushes into the most extreme moments of human experience.

Regarding how I approach a new author, I love the way you describe reading a book before learning about its writer. I often do the same. I prefer to enter a story without preconceived notions, allowing the writing itself to shape my perception. Only after finishing a book do I typically look into the author’s background, sometimes as a way of better understanding what shaped their perspective.

As for finding the time to write crime fiction. Well, that’s the constant challenge! I often think of writing as something I'm always looking to make time for, rather than something I find time for. Even during demanding periods of my career, I’ve always written in the margins of my life- early mornings, late nights, stolen moments in between responsibilities. It’s not always easy, but storytelling is something I feel compelled to do, so I make room for it however I can.

Thank you again for your kind words, for reading my book, and for reaching out with such thoughtful questions. I’d be happy for you to share my response on your blog if you’d like. Wishing you all the best, and I hope you enjoy my future books!

Warmly,
Elizabeth Heider

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May the Wolf Die by Elizabeth Heider

(60. - 1243.) May the Wolf Die by Elizabeth Heider - Nikki (Nina to her family) Serafino and Valerio Alfieri own a sailboat they have lovingly restored. They are only a couple as co-owner
s. Serafino works “in a special division with the US military police, an Italian liaison unit called Phoenix Seven”. Her English is perfect having lived in England for several years. She has a forceful personality.

Nikki is striking:

“She was an attractive woman ….. short and compact and muscular, with a dynamic, interesting face …. Nikki had several tattoos”. 

She is certified in Krav Maga. She hates rising saying it “was unnatural for anyone to be up before ten in the morning”.

As Nikki and Valerio get ready to return to Naples from a sunny afternoon of sailing and swimming they see a stunning young woman abandoned in the water by her companion. Nikki rescues her from drowning.

As they reach the Naples harbour something gets entangled in the ladder on the side of the boat. It is the body of a strongly built man who has been garoted.

The next day while escorting an American serviceman and his family on a rural road after an accident she comes across a shot up red Jeep with a dead man inside. 

She is shaken by the randomness of coming across two murder victims in two days.

The man in the Jeep is an American naval lieutenant.

The first Italian investigator on scene is Ciro, a carabineri officer, who is incensed when the NCIS investigator, Durant Cole, directs him on how to conduct the investigation. Fabizio Manieri from the Polizia Stradale homicide department arrives and asserts his priority. There is a fierce argument over jurisdiction and roles. Ultimately each man contacts his superior and everyone waits for the higher level negotiations to be completed. In the meantime, the body deteriorates.

Fabrizio openly gloats when he is designated to lead the murder investigation.

Cole initially wants Serafino’s help on the case but when the lieutenant is identified Cole dismisses Serafino as her security clearance is not high enough.

Serafino’s boyfriend, Enzo Di Pavola, is the son of a wealthy business tycoon. He has a nightclub and has avoided going into the family business. He is irritated that Serafino is content with a modest life. He thinks her lifestyle reflects badly upon him.

She has a challenging family with distance from her father, Raoul, a retired police officer and an immature brother, Gianni.

There is family tension as Francesca, the wife of Gianni, Nikki’s brother,  resents Beatrice, Nikki’s mother, bequeathing a valuable apartment to Nikki. Francesca wants Nikki to sell the apartment and divide the money with the family.

When the sea victim is identified as an American naval captain the investigative situation becomes intense. The commanding American admiral, Keith Radford, and ambassador, Paul Lissom, want a swift resolution of the murder of two American officers. The Italian government does not want trouble with America.

Serafino’s security clearance is no longer important. The NCIS reluctantly reveals classified information.

The multiple investigators must seek out the connections between Italians and American naval personnel. As a long time resident of Naples Serafino has personal connections and sources.

There is darkness in her past involving the killing of her brother, Adriano, who was also a police officer. The darkness comes back into her life.

Valerio, a member of the police anti-corruption unit, pursues separate investigations.

The oppressive heat has everyone edgy. Naples is a simmering city. Destructive riots erupt. Nikki is caught up in the chaotic violence of a riot. They are in a Dantean Inferno of the 21st Century.

The violence becomes personal.

Nikki persists in pursuing the truth, however inconvenient it may be to multiple governments, organizations and agencies.

The complexities in the case and Nikki’s personal life multiply.

A reluctant witness says to Valerio:

“The world is run by wolves. It’s their system, their rules. We can’t change it.”

The wolves are roaming in Naples. Nikki and Valerio are ready to confront them but personal events force them to seek favours from the wolves. 

Heider writes smoothly. Her characters are vivid and interesting. She vividly describes the atmosphere of Naples. It is a vibrant, often chaotic, city pulsing with energy, especially at night. Serafino thrives on its vitality. (Having been driven through Naples on our recent cruise I can attest to the congested traffic and imperious drivers.)

May the Wolf Die is a remarkable debut. The story is as much allegory as noir fiction. It is a compelling work with a rich complexity in people and plot.

The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen

(57. - 1240.) The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen - Carl Mørck is relaxing in his Copenhagen office after a series of difficult cases. He brushes aside a call from a rural Danish police officer, Christian Habersaat, plaintively seeking help with a cold case that has haunted him.

When Habersaat commits suicide at his retirement party in protest over decades of official “indifference and thoughtlessness” especially concerning the cold case, Mørck is shamed by his assistant Rose into going to the island of Bornholm where Habersaat worked and died. Assad and Rose accompany him.

They are provided with the files for Habersaat’s case. A teenage girl, Alberte Goldschmid, was hit head on by a vehicle and thrown up into the branches of a tree where she died. Her death was 17 years earlier. There are neither non-investigated leads nor evidence ignored. They will have to go over the whole investigation again.

When Habersaat’s 35 year old son, Bjarke, commits suicide the day of his father’s suicide there is heightened attention to the case.

The Department Q team starts digging down into the cold case re-interviewing those closest to Alberte who was attending a folk school.

Assad effectively leads initial interviews with aggressive questions.

Alberte was a beautiful sensual teenager.

In the present June, Habersaat’s ex-wife and Bjarke’s mother, is a bitter resentful woman.

A guru, Atu Abanshamash Dumuzi, is operating the Nature Absorption Academy in Sweden not far from Bornholm.

Pirjo Abanshamash Dumuzi, his devoted aide, is obsessed with wanting to become his lover and bear his children. He is indifferent to her desire.

Atu is mesmerizing. Before his devoted, well paying, disciples:

When Atu stepped forward in his yellow robe with the beautiful detailing on the arms, it was as if a light in the darkness - an aura of energy - was suddenly lit. It was like beholding the truth of life itself when he opened his embrace toward the assembly and took them into his world.

How Mørck and his team connect them to the deaths in Bornholm is fascinating.

Department Q probes and challenges reluctant witnesses about past statements as it finds out who Alberte was associating with almost two decades earlier. They are meticulous in examining thousands of pages of evidence assembled by Habersaat.

The search for Alberte’s last lover is frustrating but convincing as the Department interviews, examines and analyzes information. Their thoroughness produces incremental breakthroughs.

Department Q is a team guided rather than led by Mørck.

Mørck barely talks to his family. The death and funeral of an outspoken cousin draws accusations against Mørck going back decades.

As with several previous books in the series the investigation delves deeply into an aspect of society. In The Hanging Girl, Department Q examines a New Age religion based on multiple ancient sun based beliefs. A focus is Norse religious worship and the use of sunstones. 

The ending is a thriller in the best American tradition. It need not have gone almost all the way to Hollywood. There was drama enough in what happened 17 years ago and the present.

You can quickly see in Adler-Olsen’s books where the investigation is going but the pleasure is following the investigation. Department Q eventually gets there. It is the endings which have surprises.

The books in the Department Q series are good but long at 500 pages. It would be interesting to see what Adler-Olsen could do in 350 pages.

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Adler-Olsen, Jussi - (2011) - The Keeper of Lost Causes; (2012) - The Absent One; (2020) - A Conspiracy of Faith; (2020) The Purity of Vengeance and Involuntary Sterilization in Denmark and Canada; (2023) - The Marco Effect

Revenge in For She is Wrath

In reading For She is Wrath by Emily Varga I enjoyed the book as an adventure fantasy, a romantasy. I found Varga’s exploration of revenge compelling. Dania escapes from prison and sets out on a mission to avenge those who grievously wronged her and killed her father. 

This post, exploring revenge, will have some spoilers. They do not disclose the ending but they reveal more than some readers might want before they read the book. 

A warrior woman, Dania, will risk her life for revenge. 

As set out in my review, the preceding post, she ingests a blend of zoraat seeds that allow her to transfigure her appearance.

With the power of zoraat magic also come whispers in Dania’s head. Revenge is advocated in those whispers. It is hard to resist pleas made in your mind. They never leave. 

I was reminded of Hamish McLeod in the Ian Rutledge mystery series written by Charles Todd (a mother / son duo for most of the books). Hamish was a corporal executed by his commanding officer, Lieutenant Rutledge, for failing to follow orders in WW I. Rutledge was forced to kill Hamish. After the war Rutledge returns to England and resumes his career as a police officer. 

Hamish talks to Rutledge giving him advice. The comments are often pointed. Rutledge finds them unsettling; even disturbing. Rutledge conceals that Hamish is inside his head.

As a criminal defence lawyer I have represented people who hear voices. For confidentiality I provide no identifying particulars. What I describe in this post was stated in open court. I recall an accused who said he was hearing voices telling him to hurt or kill people. He was finding it harder and harder to resist the voices. It was frightening. He wanted help. Eventually, he was sentenced to the regional psychiatric centre where he could receive treatment.

The voice inside Dania becomes more frequent and more insistent. 

Dania wants her enemies to suffer before death. Varga skilfully addresses the dilemna of revenge. At what cost to your principles will you exact vengeance?

When Dania is desperate to save her friend Noor, an evil djinn, a magical supernatural being, offers her greater powers than the zoraat can give her. 

Dania makes a Faustian bargain. Each of us, in real life, has experiences on whether we will barter our soul, our integrity.

A deal with a demon has consequences.

When Dania exercises her new powers of destruction and death:

Elation filled my blood.

To experience joy through causing devastation and death is not the Dania who had lived an honourable life.

The soldiers she kills are abstracts to her. She has lost empathy. Her victims are not people. She does not think about their families. 

Noor is upset. She tells Dania no revenge is worth what Dania has surrendered. 

Can you withdraw from a deal with a djinn? 

In the Catholic faith a person’s soul can always be redeemed. The worst sins can be forgiven through the act of confession and seeking God’s mercy. That mercy does not mean escape from temporal punishment for crimes and misdeeds but the soul is saved.

Dania engages in a fierce battle for her soul.

The voice of the djinn in Dani calls out to her “Revenge. Revenge. Revenge”. It is a seductive call.

Can she save herself? 

Her closest friend Maz, who betrayed her, confesses he put revenge ahead of Dania and begs forgiveness. He lets her decide if he will live or die.

Dania sees in a person close to her the fearful costs of revenge. That person exacted revenge which involved killing. The revenge proved a temporary satisfaction for it left the avenger deeply damaged.

I recognize that fighting evil and exacting revenge can be intertwined but in the real world there are alternatives to violence.

Josef Lewkowicz was a Jewish Polish teenager during WW II. He survived 6 Nazi camps. Last year I read his book The Survivor which he wrote with Michael Calvin.

He describes the evil Amon Goeth who was in charge of the Plaszow camp. Goeth personally murdered at a whim. Because of a dropped brick Goeth killed the man who did not catch a brick tossed to him by Josef. Josef said Goeth then “raised his revolver until it was about two inches from my face, and pointed it between my eyes”. Josef prays the Shema Yisroel and awakes in a hospital bed. He has survived because a Jewish man who aids the Nazis beat Josef and told Goeth to save his bullet as Josef is “already dead”.

After the war Josef searches for and finds Goeth. He could have killed Goeth but his “only memory of logical thought was an inner determination not to kill him”. To have summarily killed Goeth when he found him in a prisoner of war camp “would have made me no better than him”. 

Josef had already sworn an affidavit against Goeth and helps find others who confirm his identification. Goeth is taken to Poland where he is tried and convicted and hung.

Josef sets out the personal code that sustained him:

… I was, and am, a man of faith. That meant that, in the worst of times, I had something to hold on to. If you have no belief system, what do you cling to? A lamp post? A new car? An expensive watch?

I believe everything happens because of God's will … in my darkest moments I believe he was by my side.

In 1946, when Josef searches for and finds Goeth he is 20, about Dania’s age.

There are no courts of law in the empire depicted in For She is Wrath but there is personal choice. You will need to read the book to find out Dania’s choice on revenge.

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For She is Wrath by Emily Varga

For She is Wrath by Emily Varga

(2. - 1246.) For She is Wrath by Emily Varga - I had not ventured into the world of YA romantasy before reading For She is Wrath. My son Michael, who is a law school classmate of Emily, gave me a signed copy for Christmas and encouraged me to read the book. 

Dania (Dani to her family and friends) has been in prison for 364 days charged with a murder she did not commit. She has been tortured by the warden, Thohfsa, for many of those days. Dania has carefully worked out an escape to take place on a day Thohfsa is absent from the prison. With precision she slays a guard and escapes to the prison yard where she is surprised to find Thohfsa and other guards waiting. She is captured and tortured and returned to her cell.

Dania meets a fellow prisoner, Noor, who has been working on an escape for 3 years.

They live under the rule of the Emperor Vahid who struck a deal with djinn, who “were powerful magical beings”, to acquire zoraat seeds. The zoraat “had given him healing magic, an endless food supply, and an indestructible army”.

Dania, daughter of the emperor’s sword maker, is most comfortable with a sword in her hands.

Noor and Dania make a dramatic escape from the prison.

Dania has revenge in her heart. She is intent on avenging her betrayal by Mazin Sial (she knows him as Maz), the ward of the emperor, with whom she had grown up. She had given him her heart.

Her fury is multiplied when she is told of the death of her father by the emperor through betrayal by her father’s friend Casildo.

Noor, though no warrior, is equally intent on retribution.

While they are avenging personal loss they are also planning to take down the emperor and his regime.

Hunted by the Emperor’s soldier and guided by the stars, they journey through mountains seeking the site where Souma, for whom Noor blended seeds, hid zoraat seeds and his treasure.

The seeds give great power but are deadly if mixed improperly. Noor blends seeds to create a powder that allows Dania to transfigure herself into a different appearance.

Magic changes Dania. She calls herself Sanaya Khara, the daughter of a warlord in the north.

Patience comes hard for Dania. She is not a subtle person. She struggles to quell the emotions pulsating through her body when, while visiting Casildo’s home he unexpectedly introduces her to Mazin, now the emperor’s second-in-command.

Maz sees Sanaya:

I was a frivolous, beautiful confection. Not a warrior. But he didn’t know warriors could wear jewels just as well.

Her wrath requires more than the death of her enemies but ruthlessness does not come naturally to Dania. I was glad she had a conscience.

There are dangers with any drug and zoraat is no exception. The veins in her wrists become black tendrils for longer and longer periods of time.

Dania’s mind is complicated by conflicting emotions as she pulls Maz ever closer to Sanaya. I was caught up in the challenge of dealing with someone you once cared about who is now drawn to a different you but only you know you are the same person.

Dania is stalwart, bright, lovely and a powerful warrior. She risks her future with powerful magic. She is not perfect. She can be petty and impetuous and righteous.

Varga delves into the dangers of certainty based on incomplete knowledge and assumption. There are strong reasons for requiring proof of guilt in criminal trials beyond all reasonable doubt.

My next post will examine Dania dealing with revenge and its costs.

The narrative moves briskly. As the end nears there are striking twists involving magical power that neither I nor Dania / Sanaya foresaw. They had me racing to finish the book.

Varga has succeeded in creating that rare thriller that is action packed and thoughtful. I think it is an excellent book and deserving of its success. 

The Waiting by Michael Connelly

(58. - 1241.) The Waiting by Michael Connelly - “Let’s dig down and make cases” - “Dig Down” is the code by which Renée Ballard lives and works. 

She is the head of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit with five volunteers assisting her in the investigation of 6,000 unsolved murder cases. They clear about 3 per month. The volunteers collectively have experience in law enforcement, the law, genealogy and the internet. They are a formidable team.

In a current domestic assault case a routine DNA test on the accused, Nicholas Purcell, triggers a familial identification in the cold case of the Pillowcase rapist sought for 46 rapes and a murder. Renée has long been haunted by the murder, her first case as a homicide detective. The DNA shows he is the son of the rapist. Renée is startled to learn the son’s father is the presiding judge of the L.A. Superior Court, the Honourable Jonathan Purcell. The DNA results are a “hot shot” taking the case to the top of their cases.

On the side, Renée is pursuing a thief who stole her badge and gun and ID from her Defender while she was surfing. Her weak personal security was startling.

Her search for the thief takes her into a group of “Sovereigns” - Americans rejecting government authority. To aid her she enlists Harry Bosch, who is battling cancer. Renée and Harry amplify their individual rogue natures when they work together. Yet again I lament that the talented Connelly has the pair engage in blatantly unlawful actions as they pursue bad guys.

At the unit Madeline “Maddie” Bosch volunteers to work on the cold cases. She hopes such work will aid her efforts to become a detective. Striving to be her own woman she seeks out the position, not even wanting Harry to know she has applied. 

Once aboard the “raft” - a collection of linked office desks and short partitions at the Unit that signify they are floating on a sea of unsolved cases - Maddie looks into the famed “Black Dahlia” case from 1947. Renée is very familiar with the case. A lot of America knows about the case.

With the public at grave risk and Renée at personal risk, Renée and Harry tipoff the FBI.

When the higher ups learn of the investigation of Judge Purcell they are queasy. Renée is on a short leash. Further DNA evidence startles the Unit and sends the investigation in a completely new direction.

Unexpected new information in the Black Dahlia case turns it into an active investigation. Suddenly they are looking for a serial killer almost 75 years after Elizabeth Short was killed. Maddie is a touch shaken.

All the members of the Unit contribute to the investigations. 

The feelings of Caroline Hatteras about cases continue to drive Renée crazy. At the same time her internet skills at following genealogical trails are brilliant.

Having Maddie on the team frees Renée from having to do all the work that requires a badge. She can pursue leads personally.

As Renée closes in she returns to being a Lone Ranger. At least Harry did work with a partner. Harry’s role in the series is diminishing from book to book. Renée needs a partner. I can see Maddie replacing her father.

Unlike most police, Renée recognizes she needs help with the trauma in her life and sees a psychologist weekly as they dig down into her mind on why she has chronic insomnia. I believe there is significantly more to be learned about her psyche.

Renée is an interesting character but has only a token personal life in the books. While Harry did not have stable relationships he interacted with people and tried to have relationships. I hope Renée’s life outside the Unit is developed in future books. 

Some events happened rather abruptly. Once again we learn little of the villain. The Waiting is a very good book but not one of Connelly’s best.

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Connelly, Michael – (2000) - Void Moon; (2001) - A Darkness More than Night; (2001) - The Concrete Blonde (Third best fiction of 2001); (2002) - Blood Work (The Best);  (2002) - City of Bones; (2003) - Lost Light; (2004) - The Narrows; (2005) - The Closers (Tied for 3rd best fiction of 2005); (2005) - The Lincoln Lawyer; (2007) - Echo Park; (2007) - The Overlook; (2008) - The Brass Verdict; (2009) – The Scarecrow; (2009) – Nine Dragons; (2011) - The Reversal; (2011) - The Fifth Witness; (2012) - The Drop; (2012) - Black Echo; (2012) - Harry Bosch: The First 20 Years; (2012) - The Black Box; (2014) - The Gods of Guilt; (2014) - The Bloody Flag Move is Sleazy and Unethical; (2015) - The Burning Room; (2015) - Everybody Counts or Nobody Counts; (2016) - The Crossing; (2016) - Lawyers and Police Shifting Sides; (2017) - The Wrong Side of Goodbye and A Famous Holograph Will; (2017) - Bosch - T.V. - Season One and Titus Welliver as Harry Bosch; (2018) - Two Kinds of Truth; (2019) - Dark Sacred Night and A Protest on Connelly's Use of Vigilante Justice; (2020) - The Night Fire; (2020) - Fair Warning; (2021) - The Law of Innocence and Writing a Credible Trial; (2022) - The Dark Hours; (2024) - Resurrection Walk; (2024) - Kim Stone and Harry Bosch