I admit that I enjoyed Void Moon, but I didn't absolutely love it, the way I did such books as Angels Flight and Blood Work.
This is an interesting deviation from the sorts of material--police procedurals, serial killers, intricate plots, etc.--that Michael Connelly usually presents in his books.
Cassie Black, the protagonist in Void Moon, is an ex-convict who once specialized in burglarizing the casino/hotel rooms of high rollers, with her lover, Max.
Some years ago, the two of them ran into some misfortune and, due to the Byzantine laws in effect in Las Vegas, Cassie was imprisoned for manslaughter in Max's death, even though she was waiting for him in a casino lobby at the time.
Now out on parole and working in a Porsche dealership (a pretty comfortable, high-profile gig for an ex-con), she's inexplicably drawn back to attempt one more job, in the same casino where things went so wrong.
On the whole, though, this wasn't as ingenious a plot as I'm used to with Michael Connelly.
I guess I've come to expect more twists and turns, a more carefully, deviously plotted story.
This is a good book, don't misunderstand me, but I just don't feel that it lives up to some of his previous novels.
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