For the many admirers of Michael Connelly, and they are millions, the real question that haunts them is very simple: what will become of the unrealrable old inspector Harry Bosch, now physically reduced? Will he be replaced by Renée Ballard, inspector in charge of unresolved business unit? Evolving in mined fields, the author of Los Angeles sewers prefers to delay while sowing clues. Pending the passage of relays, the young retiree suffering from cancer and the inspector who is not cold in the eyes are still resuming service during a “political” investigation. And they are joined by Maddie Bosch, the daughter of the policeman.
In this last book Who knows how to wait (Calmann-Lévy), published before the election of Donald Trump, Michael Connelly subtly evokes the political tension that rages and divides the United States or how the security services (FBI and Police) are found in front of extremists of the ' First America (America First) capable of the worst to create an electroshoc in the country.
As often, even always with Michael Connelly, several cases overlap, in addition to that of aficionados of the new master of the world and the extremes in action. Thanks to the DNA of a suspect, the unresolved business unit degrees an explosive Cold, that of a serial rapist who terrorized Los Angeles two decades earlier before disappearing.
While his team is monopolized by this file, Maddie Bosch, smokes the archives of material evidence on the former case that all American investigating dreams of elucidating: the murder of black Dahlia, in reference to the assassination in terrible conditions of 'A 22 -year -old young woman, Elizabeth Short, in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. His case experienced a world impact thanks to the eponymous book by James Ellroy, summit of the black novel published in 1987, adapted to the cinema by Brian de Palma in 2006.
Michael Connelly awakens American ghosts. With the backlight of the recurring character Harry Bosch, the author of the bestseller The poet wonders about the future of a society plagued by its own demons. And by giving more room to two women, Renée Ballard and Maddie Bosch, Michael Connelly seems optimistic. But the tutelary and rebellious figure still watches.
-“Who knows how to wait”, Michael Connelly, translated by Robert Pépin, Calmann-Lévy, 447 pages, 22.90 euros.
