The Concrete Blonde is the third novel in the Harry Bosch series by the master crime writer, Michael Connelly. It was originally published in 1994 and was reviewed in this blog by ECD in 2011. Unfortunately that review has been corrupted in the years since we began writing reviews. It’s a follow-up book to The Black Ice which cannot be found in the blog either, although I’m sure all of the reviewers here have read it. That was a story about a serial killer known as the Dollmaker, which ended with Bosch shooting and killing the suspected killer. The Concrete Blonde is a follow-up novel in which more similar murders have been discovered. Bosch began to be uncertain that he had really solved the prior case. Meanwhile, the wife of the murdered man is suing the LAPD and Detective Bosch for having killed the wrong man. In the course of this, we learn more about Harry’s early life, having been born to a prostitute who was murdered when he was 11 years old. That murder was never solved, but this Dollmaker case forced Harry to looked at unexplored parts of himself, a most painful process. Once again, these early Bosch books show why Connelly is the king of crime novel writers.
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