I haven’t been scoping out the locations mentioned in Blood Work as I did with many of the Bosch Novels and the BOSCH TV series.

My favorite Agatha Christie story is “Ten Little Indians” or sometimes called, “And Then There Were None.” So, when I see the character name of “Noone” in Blood Work, I immediately think of the Christie character, which came to be know to the survivors as “No One.” So, every time I read the name “Noone,” I thought of No One, and just thought it was Connelly’s tribute to Agatha Christie. And, sure enough, late in the novel the play on the name is revealed, whether a Christie tribute or not.

[NOTE 06/22/24]: I’m writing today to mention an oddity that I came across in the last pages of my copy of Blood Work. Crimmins, the “bad guy” had kidnapped Graciela and Raymond, her deceased sister’s son, who she was now taking care of. Terry McCaleb has shot and killed Crimmins, on a Mexican beach, and has found and rescued Graciela and Raymond from their hell pit. And then in describing what had happened, my copy of the novel says, “Gloria and Raymond had spent thirty-six hours with Crimmins.” As I finished reading that sentence, I questioned whether this was a misprint, or if Connelly was using some allegory regarding Gloria’s heart in Terry’s chest. But, I finished the last page of Blood Work, and then did a quick Google Search on the sentence as written above. I didn’t find any exact matches, but did find the excerpt from this portion of the novel online. And there is the oddity. The online copy was written as it should have been, “Graciela and Raymond had spent thirty-six hours with Crimmins.”

So, now I wonder how my copy of Blood Work should have this glaring mistake. I looked at the book binding and it said Little Brown, which is the original publishing company. How could someone make this kind of mistake unless they were actually trying to think about what they were typing, not just transcribing? See below. I took a picture of my edition with the error, and a screencapture from the online, correct text:

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