I really love the harry bosche books, and the first few are some of my favourites. But the black echo is so casually homophobic and transphobic I found it very uncomfortable to read through.

Connolly got better with this as the series went on, but some other books in his collection have this problem. I won’t deny it’s a great book and the language could have the benefit of the doubt of being “of its time” but nevertheless I still found it uncomfortable.

Now I wanna give it a look! Does anyone know if the audiobook is any good? Or is it better to go about reading a print copy?

Fair game. I really like thrillers. Military ones especially. But the realities of being held captive by savages who very much don’t care about your well being is excruciatingly uncomfortable. It was a great book. But one I never want to read again.