#60 in Thriller
The Narrows
- 404
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Narrows” picks up the threads “The Poet” left hanging in a dark, well-paced Harry Bosch thriller. Michael Connelly brings Bosch together with FBI agent Rachel Walling and also ties in “A Darkness More Than Night” and “Blood Work”, three earlier novels worth knowing first. Some readers who no longer remember those books find it hard to care, and feel that the main female characters sound too much alike.
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About the book
The Narrows is the 14th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the 10th featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. As Bosch crosses paths with FBI Agent Rachel Walling, the novel ties story elements left unresolved in The Poet and those from Blood Work and A Darkness More Than Night together into the Bosch mythos.
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 NarrowsThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - The Closers
7.97.9 / 10 - Echo Park
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 8.0 across 127 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 46% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 127 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Narrows?
It has 404 pages — shorter than 52% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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