Back to Michael Connelly-Angels Flight-and back to Harry Bosch. Angel's Flight is a short inclined railway carrying people up Bunker Hill in downtown L.A. There are two bodies. The important one is a lawyer who has made it his life work to hunt out any real or perceived injustice-large or small-by the police and bring a lawsuit against the "racist, paramilitary organization known as the LAPD". Obviously, the police have motives and Harry is not appreciated by those who don't like the fact that he's tying to solve the case. Harry also finds himself being framed and has to solve that problem as well. Unfortunately, he is also in the middle of a one-year-old marriage that is rapidly coming apart.

The book that my book club read was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I'm afraid that I was the only one in the room who did not care for it. It seemed shallow, full of platitudes that are abviously true but bear no connection to the undeveloped characters or plot. The Secret has also been a huge hit these last couple of years and my reaction to both was the same. These things are not 'secret'. Following them is hard but they are not new.