A Short Book Review of The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly

4 out of 5 stars

Maureen Gil
2 min readFeb 28, 2024

The first thing is that it’s much different than Season 1 of Bosch: Legacy, most notably because Maddie isn’t really a part of the book. ( See my in-depth synopsis of Season 1.) Also, Harry solves the mystery because he’s still a detective, albeit not with the LAPD, whereas Maddie solved it in the tv series.

I give this 4 out of 5 stars.

Oh, and Honey (not the Honey in I Shrunk The Kids)? She’s actually The Lincoln Lawyer. I don’t mean she drives around in the back of a Lincoln. I mean that Mickey is the lawyer in the Bosch series.

With that out of the way, this book had appropriate action scenes, but most of it was Harry trying to solve two different (and unrelated) cases. This story a really sad ending.

I deducted a star because a lot of this book was expositionary-style detective work. It’s like Mr. Connelly went on strike from the actual good stuff in writing (like setting scenes, dialogue, characterization) and decided to put a to-do list called “Harry’s Murder Solving List.” Parts of it was interesting, and even exciting. But other parts were dull. If his name wasn’t Michael Connelly, I would have probably put the book down.

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Maureen Gil

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