Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #7) in 2-3-4 Challenge

Mar 27, 2016 Jonetta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nc-br-digital-library, mystery-suspense-thriller, 16000-in-2016, group-read

Terry McCaleb is a retired FBI agent in L. A. who's just undergone a heart transplant. He's recuperating on his boat and figuring out what he's going to do with his new lease on life. When he's approached by Graciella Rivers to help investigate her sister's murder, Terry's reluctant until she gives him a compelling reason to go all in.

Typical of a Connelly procedural, this story winds around the bend and back before things start to fall in place to make sense and provide motive. Still, I was a ...more

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Aug 21, 2017 Sandra Hoover rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: police-procedurals, suspense

Fantastic Read! I read this book to prepare for A Darkness More Than Night, Harry Bosch#7/Terry McCaleb#2 as I continue my journey through the Bosch series. Bloodwork introduces McCaleb thus leading into book #2, A Darkness More Than Night, where Bosch & McCaleb work a case together. I am so glad I didn't skip this book! It is suspense at it's best! Absolutely A Page Burner! ...more

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Jul 23, 2016 Robin rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2016, mystery

Former FBI Agent Terry McCaleb is under doctor's orders to take it easy while recovering from a heart transplant. But Graciela Rivers has other plans. She appeals to McCaleb to find the man who murdered her sister in cold blood. Terry is reluctant to get involved, until he discovers that the new heart he was given belonged to Graciela's sister, Gloria Torres. Terry talks to the detectives on the cold case and reviews the file, including the security tape that shows the murder. Terry doesn't know ...more

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Jul 17, 2014 Kris (My Novelesque Life) rated it really liked it

Shelves: suspense, fiction, audiobook, mystery, fbi, made-into-a-movie

2016-3.5

3 STARS-2007

"'Blood Work' - that's what Terry McCaleb used to call his job at the FBI. Eight weeks ago he was a dead man, but now someone else's heart is keeping him alive. Then a newspaper report of his brush with death brings him an unwanted visitor. Graciela Rivers reveals to McCaleb that the anonymous donor of his heart was her murdered sister. Knowing that he lives because of a cold blooded killing, McCaleb takes the moribund investigation on. Nothing about the seemingly random kill ...more

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Jun 28, 2016 Lauren rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: cold-case, fbi-agents, police-procedural, serial-killers, organ-donation, cop-hero

Blood Work
4 Stars

Former FBI profiler, Terry McCaleb is recovering from a heart transplant when he learns that his donor was murdered during a robbery, and the case remains unsolved. McCaleb decides to investigate the crime himself, and soon realizes that a diabolical killer with a disturbing motive is at work.

Series note: This is book #1 in the Terry McCaleb series. Book #2 is a continuation of the Harry Bosch series and slots in after book #7.

Additional note: This book has been made into a mo ...more

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Nov 28, 2020 Logan rated it liked it

Shelves: borrowed-library, borrowed-ebook, mystery, 2020-books-read

This one is the introduction to Terry McCaleb, a retired FBI agent who recently had a heart transplant and gets talked into finding the murderer of the woman who donated his new heart. Connelly’s various MCs all bleed into each other’s work as part of the same universe. I knew Terry makes an appearance in the next Bosch book, and this storyline was referenced in Bosch #6 when Harry sees a poster for the movie of this book. Did you follow all that? 🤣 So I was excited to try this one before readin ...more

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Jan 20, 2024 Connie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I really enjoyed this book, and I think I might have read it before, because I had an inkling of what was going to happen next. I still did enjoy it and I am sure I read it many years ago.

This really has Terry trying to get healthy from a heart transplant and also trying to clear his good name that he had with the FBI. He keeps going over the files of the murdered victims trying to come up with a link and finds he is also a link.

This is fast paced and very interesting. I am giving this 5 out of ...more

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