Madrid .- Michael Connelly, American author of famous novel, has picked up in “Echo Park” Harry Bosch, the legendary character who embodies a Los Angeles detective in many of his works, before retiring finally in a book whose singularity is the exploration of pure evil. ”
The American author Michael Connelly crime novel after the interview with Efe during the presentation of his new book, “Echo Park”, a story in which his most famous character, Detective Harry Bosch has a chance to reopen case solved in the past.
Connelly, during the presentation of “Echo Park” in Spain, stressed that his books are usually about an exploration of the various shades of good and evil, “but felt that this time the enigmatic Harry Bosch is faced with a character” featuring the most intense of evil. ”
After eleven novels Bosch central character, its creator said that “one of the most wonderful gift that a writer can receive is to have a character like him so fascinating and you evolve,” and stressed his pleasure at having followed this trend Through more than a million words on a single character.
However, Connelly believes that the famous detective, first created in 1992 with The Black Echo, a novel that received the Edgar Award, and can not travel much, because, ironically, has 56 years and will retire as all police officers in Los Angeles, where more economically convenient. ”
In “Echo Park, Bosch has the opportunity to reopen a case in which he worked in the past and was left unresolved, as is the murder of Marie Gesto couple, disappeared thirteen years ago.
In the confession of a man who said he was behind the assassination of the young, the shrewd detective senses that there is more behind the circumstances surrounding the case and the interest of a politician to reach a pact with the suspect.
The latest novel translated into Spanish Connelly is an exciting book with a clever plot police whose pieces just fit together perfectly, and is an invitation to enter into the relationship between politicians and the police force and a reflection on the tragic consequences that can result error in an investigation.
The author, who acknowledges the influence that his long period of previous events as a journalist in his writing, he emphasized that his writing style reflects the “perfect” this act: short sentences that are agile and accurate to the story.
In fact, says that writing novels is documented “exactly like” which would make a journalist, conducts research, go to the places it describes, detectives spoke with friends and draws his stories many times of the talks it has with them and cases that you have.
The character of Harry Bosch is also “a mixture” of people that have had contact over the years, and admits that “possibly” would have liked to be a detective, but that would have not passed through the upstream necessary to achieve this, the uniformed police.
Despite being one of the main perpetrators of crime novel, Connelly says that lately does not read this genre, underlined that United States can not write a book if they are to succeed in that not a crime, something that linked to the fact that all the leisure culture “turn around the crime.”
The writer, based in Tampa (on the west coast of Florida), believes that in his novels, set in Los Angeles, seeks to “deepen the shadows behind the gleaming star of the universe” and considers that Los Angeles is, along with Harry Bosch, a character in his novels, “so that there is a mixture between the character and the city.”
