Hieronymus Bosch

No, not the painter.  If anyone reads my currently reccomends list on the sidebar you'll see a lot of books by Micahel Connelly there.  They are detective stories, police procedules, about a L.A. detective named Hieronymus Bosch.  I read one of this novels a few years back and didnt'care for it that much.  About a month ago I was at my parents and picked up one of his novels that my Dad had read.  I was hooked this time.  I don't know what it is, sometimes I won't take to a book and than later when I try it I love it.  This happened the first time I tried to read Gore Vidal's Lincoln.  I couldn't get past the first chapter   A year or so later I picked it up to try again.  I loved it, it's one of my favorite books now.  I ended up going out and reading all of Vidal's American History novels.  It also got me interested in Henry Adams and John Hay, going out and buying some non fiction books about them, one of them the Five of Hearts a great book itself.  Ok, this is getting off the topic, but after I read the book of my Dads, City of Bones, I was hooked.  I love when I find a new series that I haven't read that I like.  The last time it happened with a character that has been published for years was from a book I picked up from my Dad again, Faye Kellerman's novel of Peter Decker.  So now I've been reading all the Harry Bosch's novels.  I've only got two more left to read I think.  No, make that three, he just published a new one recently.  It's great when I have a whole series to read, it's like discovering a new friend, finding out their likes and dislikes, everything about them.  I'm reading the first one now, The Black Echo.  It's kind of weird reading them out of order, I already now what happens to a lot of the characters in the first novel, their future history.  If anyone enjoys mysteries or detective novels, I suggest you pick one of Michael Connelly's novels up, they are some of the best.