Review: Not a short story; a mere fragment
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
This is a cynical attempt on the part of Hachette to cash in on Connelly's name.  He never should have agreed to do this.  The story itself, while not awful, is clearly a mere outline or fragment for a larger work.  It ends abruptly, has little explanation of how Bosch made the mental leaps he does, and there is no resolution. The story itself takes up a mere 30% of the product, the balance being an excerpt from The Gods of Guilt novel.  I guess the publisher is correct in thinking we readers are a bunch of doofusses.  I certainly am, since I shelled out $.99 for this thing. I really like Connelly, but I will not be fooled a second time and I will look very, very carefully at anything Hachette puts out there.  Time to self-publish Mike.  You'll make more money and I suspect you never would have pulled such a crappy stunt on your readers.