#53 in Crime & mystery
Echo Park
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Our view
“Echo Park” balances careful police procedure with Bosch’s personal stake in the case, in a dark and tense crime novel. Some readers find the first half slow and say the book comes alive from the midpoint; others praise its plot surprises, one of them arriving late. Some who know the television series found this twelfth Bosch novel different enough to keep them in suspense.
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About the book
Echo Park is the 17th novel by American crime-writer Michael Connelly, and the 12th featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. It was published in 2006.
Reading order · Harry Bosch
Full order & progress →- The Black EchoStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Black Ice
7.77.7 / 10 - The Concrete Blonde
8.08.0 / 10 - The Last Coyote
8.08.0 / 10 - Trunk Music
7.97.9 / 10 - Angels Flight
7.97.9 / 10 - A Darkness More Than Night
7.77.7 / 10 - City of Bones
7.87.8 / 10 - Lost Light
7.97.9 / 10 - The Narrows
7.87.8 / 10 - The Closers
7.97.9 / 10 - Echo ParkThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - The Overlook
7.77.7 / 10 - Nine Dragons
7.77.7 / 10 - The Drop
7.97.9 / 10 - The Black Box
7.87.8 / 10 - The Burning Room
7.87.8 / 10 - The Crossing
8.08.0 / 10 - The Wrong Side of Goodbye
7.97.9 / 10 - Two Kinds of Truth
7.97.9 / 10 - Dark Sacred Night
7.97.9 / 10 - The Night Fire
8.08.0 / 10 - The Dark Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Desert Star
7.97.9 / 10 - The waiting
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 133 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 133 | 100% |
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