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Finally managed to find this discontinued book with reasonable price. Book about (Finnish) axe. My dad loved Billnäs axes and they were always present on our little logging trips when was younger. Unfortunately my Billnäs is not at my home for the photo but this puukko has to do.
 
About a month ago, I read this book by Michael Connelly. It's one of his Ballard/Bosch novels, featuring Renée Ballard as an LA cop running a cold case unit, with Harry Bosch as her mentor/adviser/assistant. I suppose it could be labeled a Ballard/Bosch/Bosch novel, since Harry's daughter Maddie, who is a relatively new LA street cop is also a major character in the story. The book has 3 main subplots. One involves using DNA results to solve a serial rapist case from over 20 years ago; it was a pretty good story with some unexpected twists. One involves Ballard having her ID, badge, gun stolen from her vehicle while surfing; as is her style, she doesn't follow procedures but tries to recover her stuff working on her own and happens to stumble onto a domestic terrorism case in the process. I really don't care for Ballard's tendency to try to cover up her mistakes, rather than following the rules. The third plot has Maddie Bosch working part-time with the cold case team and solving the Black Dahlia murder, one of LA's most famous unsolved murders, in the process. This subplot is really weak and poorly researched; info that's readily available online is totally ignored. I suppose it was good escapist reading, but it was quite annoying at times.
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The third plot has Maddie Bosch working part-time with the cold case team and solving the Black Dahlia murder, one of LA's most famous unsolved murders, in the process. This subplot is really weak and poorly researched; info that's readily available online is totally ignored. I suppose it was good escapist reading, but it was quite annoying at times
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Gary,
Good morning. I haven’t read the crossover books, but I am a huge fan of MC’s Harry Bosch books (especially the early ones!), and the Lincoln Lawyer and Ballard novels, too. The Bosch TV show adaptation is one of the great modern police procedural shows.

I’ve been reading backwards into the great John D. McDonald’s Travis McGee novel series. Talk about escapist reading. Cheers.
 
Dave DaveHS DaveHS , I agree that Connelly is at his best with the Harry Bosch books (although Harry is quite a gloomy guy most of the time). I don't watch much TV any more, so I haven't seen the TV version of Bosch.

I think I read a random Travis McGee novel years ago, but never tried reading the entire series. Doing so would actually be kind of a good idea for me, giving me a "bridge" between early "detective" fiction by Hammett and Chandler, and more modern (to me) fiction by, say, John Sandford, Michael Connelly, and Peter Robinson.

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I finished reading this book early in Christmas week. I thought it was a quite interesting and apparently well-researched discussion of baseball outside of the major leagues in the early days of professional baseball. Lots of fascinating stories about independent white minor leagues, black teams and leagues at various levels, barnstorming teams of various kinds (major league all-stars, women (and men in drag), House of David cult). The author invented a computationally simple (and IMHO conceptually simplistic) "stat" he uses to compare the relative strengths of leagues and teams. I included a partial table of contents in case someone wants to get some idea of the topics included in the book (I hope it's legible).
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