Chasing the Dime (CD-Audio)

from jayne_charles

Decent tale of vice, murder and computer geeks. This is the only Michael Connelly I have read, and though my husband who has read most of them reckons it is one of his worst, I quite liked it. It engaged my interest enough to have me yelling in frustration at the main character as he blundered in...

from SusanBNM

Good enough to keep me up all night until I finished it. Has some definite "red herrings" to keep you guessing who the real killer was but still was able to figure it out before the reveal. Learned a little about the biochemical-technological industry, too.

from DaveWilde

Chasing the Dime is Connelly's departure from the more formulaic Bosch police procedural novels. In some ways, it reminds me of Richard Aleas (Charles Ardai)'s Songs of Innocence in that it features not some hard-boiled tough old detective, but a soft-boiled young innocent who somehow gets caught...

from raizel

I guessed whodunit and that the book was a mystery solvable by the reader and not just a procedural story of a computer researcher and owner of a company who gets a new cell phone and tries to discover the whereabouts of the person who last had its phone number. Maybe it's because I've read enoug...

from drmom62

I listened to this as an audiobook which said that the text was abridged for the audio. It did have an abrupt ending and was a rather convoluted story. More so than in the other Connelly books, the action and tension were almost constant once started.