Review: What were you thinking?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2012
What were you thinking?  This is the question I would ask to Michael Connelly. I have read everything you have written. I like your style, stories, characters, and outcomes. I'm a Kindle reader and am still confused with authors who charge outrageous prices for Kindle books. However, that is not the reason for my review. The Safe Man was a direct departure from your typical fare, police procedural mysteries. I don't mind the change in subject matter and by saying upfront that this is a ghost story tells the buying public such. The story was good, characters OK, style--searching, outcome was telegraphed as soon as the main character talked with the French-Canadian safe cracker. Mr. Connelly, Steven King you are not, but good try. My complaint was the pathetic pandering to selling your next book, The Black Box. I would not want to think that you are so insecure with your writing career that you needed to sell a short story, some forty pages, approximately 30% of the Kindle download, and make the last 70% a preamble, beginning, to your next work. Shame on you Michael Connelly. Let be believe that your money grubbing publisher put you up to this masquerade of selling one thing when you wanted the reader to buy something else. If you want to sell a short story, sell it by itself and not hidden within another agenda. Why don't you think about the 'trees being save' when a Kindle book is bought and act more like John Locke when it comes to the price you ask for your Kindle books.