"The Last Coyote" by Michael Connelly

While many of us have been in situations where we considered our lives to be sh*t, our plights simply cannot compare to what Harry Bosch has to go through. For starters, his home got ravaged by an earthquake, after which it was condemned, basically leaving him homeless.

As if that wasn’t enough, his girlfriend decides to leave him (possibly having something to do with the fact that he is homeless), and he’s hitting the bottle like never before.

Not content with having something left, Harry Bosch then attacked his commanding officer and subsequently forced to relinquish what little he had left: his LAPD detective’s badge.

As a result of his shenanigans, Harry gets suspended, and finally having some free time on his hands, he decides to investigate an unsolved crime from 1961. The crime in question is the brutal and inexplicable murder of a prostitute, who is also Harry’s mother. As any good detective would, Harry starts asking questions which cause some of L.A.’s most notorious politicians to start fidgeting.

Slowly but surely, Harry unravels the truth, only to get closer to the person who would have it shrouded forever. Harry’s enemy is one of the most powerful, cunning and deceiving men in L.A. who has been keeping secrets and forging a future of blood and corruption for many years now.

The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly is certainly an entertaining thriller which brings you a somewhat classic, noir detective story, opposing a broken cop who is facing down the abyss against a seemingly-unstoppable and uncontainable doom.

To be honest, if you are looking for some kind of incredibly deep story with multiple layers of meaning, metaphors and philosophies, then maybe you should pass on this novel; as great and entertaining as it is, it’s just a detective story… and an amazing one at that.

If you have free moments in your busy life and don’t know what to do on rainy Sunday afternoons, then you should definitely check this story out.

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Michael Connelly Personal site Michael Connelly is perhaps one of the most popular modern writers, starting has career when he discovered Raymond Chandler’s writings at his university. To support himself, he worked at the local newspaper while specializing in crime, which shows in virtually all of his works touching on criminal subjects, such as The Black Box and The Lincoln Lawyer.