[circlecity]

If you love good crime mysteries you cannot beat Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels. I have been a fan for decades. Whenever a new Harry Bosch book came out I would start after work on Friday, brew (a few) pots of coffee., Amass a stash of junk food, and start reading. Good times. I read almost every one in a single setting. You can’t put them down. Michael is the best ever. They are all now available for free on YouTube in a audiobook format. Good production values. If you have a long drive ahead of you fire one up. You will not be disappointed.

[Obadiah]

I really enjoyed this series, originally on Amazon.

[Reno89519]

So, how are these up on YouTube? Seems like theft of intellectual property. First, the author, then the audiobook recording. If I was the author, I'd be very upset. Same with the company that produced the audiobook.

As good citizens, as conservatives, we should be above theft.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“ If you have a long drive ahead of you fire one up. You will not be disappointed.”

NOW you tell me. Just last night at 9 pm, I completed a 1,455 mile drive from North Idaho to the SF Bay Area! I did a somewhat leisurely drive in six days (as opposed to our normal two days).

[moovova]

"I have been a fan for decades."

As have I...but my entertainment method was the public library. I also enjoyed the TV series....binge-watching on Prime. Great author...great series.

[windcliff]

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[SFConservative]

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch books are indeed excellent, as are his "Lincoln Lawyer" books in which Harry often shows up (he is the half brother of Mickey Haller who works out of his Lincoln Town Car). Very credible procedural detective novels and the characters are all very human and normal. The later audiobooks where Titus Welliver narrates the Bosch role are particularly good.

A number of books ago, Connelly briefly let his leftist political leanings enter the story, but then heeded the backlash that followed and has been keeping it politically neutral since.

[Ge0ffrey]

His novels have become increasingly more woke and less well crafted, in my opinion.

[Rockingham]

Over a couple of years, I went through every hard boiled detective novel I could get in a similar manner. An early dinner on Friday evening, a nap, then up all night reading.

If you like Bosch, you might also like Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer detective novels, as well as Raymond Chandler's earlier Philip Marlowe series. Chandler's Marlowe was especially influential as one of the first and best hard boiled detectives, with the Rockford Files modeled on Marlowe by series co-creator Roy Huggins.

Chandler also inspired Connelly, who was a struggling business student at University of Florida in 1973 when he went to see The Long Goodbye, which was based on a novel by Raymond Chandler. Inspired to become a mystery writer, Connelly read Chandler's Philip Marlowe books and stories over a college break and then transferred to journalism and creative writing.

After graduation and newspaper reporting jobs in Florida, Connelly moved to L.A. to cover crime for the Los Angeles Times. Connelly's Bosch novels are based in many ways on those of Chandler.

[Rappini]

Binged it on Amazon, great series.

[Captain Peter Blood]

So these are audio books on YouTube, I can assure you that Royalties are being paid for their use. Are there ads in these shows, I bet there are unless you have Youtube Premium with no ads.