Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner investigate a recent murder where the trigger was pulled nine years earlier.
In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent.
Now Bosch and rookie Detective Lucia Soto are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Beginning with the bullet that’s been lodged for years in the victim’s spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveal that this shooting may have been anything but random.
In this gripping new novel, Michael Connelly shows once again why Harry Bosch is “one of the greats of crime fiction” (New York Daily News).
MAVERICK DETECTIVE HARRY BOSCH WON’T JUST FADE AWAY! The maverick Los Angeles Police Department homicide Detective Harry Bosch has come a long way since he first made his appearance in the 1992 detective mystery thriller, The Black Echo. In that premier book of the series a man found in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam was just another statistic for the police department. But when Harry Bosch stepped in it became personal because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam “tunnel rat” who had fought side by side with him in a hellish…
Moves about as consistently as traffic in LA at 5 pm…. I’ve read most of the series, and with these latter ones, they almost feel like a draft. This one started with an interesting premise, but, perhaps to lengthen the book, adds a second case unrelated to the first, which feels like 2/3 of a short story has been added to the book.I think Connelly has also run out of ideas about how to develop the Bosch character — a possible romance gets mentioned in passing; Harry even mentions the casualty count amongst his former partners (to tell…
“He observed things others did not.” Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch, Michael Connelly’s iconic character, is in the twilight of his career as an L. A. homicide detective. In “The Burning Room,” Harry is partnered with twenty-eight year old Mexican-American Lucia Soto. Harry becomes Lucy’s mentor, sharing his wide-ranging knowledge of procedure (some of it not exactly by-the-book) with his eager protégé. Harry’s latest case in the Open-Unsolved Unit involves Orlando Merced, who was shot ten years earlier by an unidentified…