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Article: Dark doings from Seoul to Idaho.(NW Arts&Life)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Adam Woog; Special to The Seattle Times
Crime fiction --
Hong Kong, Seoul, London and a fictional county in rural Idaho -- if this month's mystery and crime selection is to be believed, evil lurks in the hearts of them all.
Harry Bosch, the LAPD detective who is the steel spine of Michael Connelly's nonpareil series, ventures far from his comfort zone in the compulsively readable "9 Dragons" (Little, Brown, 374 pp., $27.99). The shooting death of a Chinese store owner in Los Angeles blossoms into an investigation of that city's deeply embedded tongs -- crudely put, the Chinese Mafia.
As Harry moves closer, his daughter -- who ...