- Blurb -
On New Year's Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone - a bone that the dog's owner, a doctor, feels certain is a human bone.
Bosch investigates, and that chance discovery leads him to a shallow grave in the Hollywood hills, evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but it stirs up Bosch's memories of his own childhood as an orphan in the city. He can't let it go. Digging through police reports and hospital records, tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence - and a trail, ever more tenuous, into a violent, terrifying world.
As the case takes Bosch deeper into the past, a rookie cop named Julia Brasher brings him alive in the present in a way no one has in years. Bosch has been warned about the trouble that comes with dating a rookie, but no warning could withstand the heat between them - or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a hard turn. A suspect bolts, a cop is shot, and suddenly Bosch's cold case has all of L.A. in an uproar - and Bosch fighting to keep control in a lawless and brutal showdown.
The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision - one that will leave readers hungrily awaiting for the next Bosch novel.
- Titles in the Series -
#01: Black Echo, The
#02: Black Ice, The
#03: Concrete Blonde, The
#04: Last Coyte, The
#05: Trunk Music
#06: Angels Flight
#07: A Darkness More Than Night
#08: City of Bones
#09: Lost Light
#10: Narrows, The
#11: Closers, The
#12: Echo Park
#13: Overlook, The
#14: Brass Verdict, The
#15: Nine Dragons
#16: Reversal, The
#17: Drop, The
#18: Black Box, The
#19: Burning Room, The
#20: Wrong Side of Goodbye, The
#21: Two Kinds of Truth
(Omnibus) #01: Black Echo / Black Ice / Concrete Blonde
(Omnibus) #02: Last Coyote / Trunk Music / Angels Flight
(Omnibus) #03: A Darkness More Than Night / City of Bones / Lost Light
(Omnibus) #04: Narrows / Closers / Echo Park
(Omnibus) #05: Overlook, The / Nine Dragons / Drop, The
- Reviews -
Give a dog a bone and a whole can of worms opens up. This is the start of the 7th great Detective Harry Bosch novel, set in LA but far from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a dog returns to its master with a humerus in its mouth it opens up a horrific case of child abuse from twenty years previously. For the next two weeks Bosch and his partner try to bring closure and after identifying the skeleton the answer seems simple. Too simple... Digging back into the neighbourhood's past unearths secrets that could and do destroy lives and careers, bringing back memories for Bosch that he would rather forget. Award-winning crime writer Michael Connelly carries the plot back and forth, intertwining it with Bosch's bolshiness in the face of authority. Love interest arises only to confound both the case and Bosch with the complexity of its relationship. A page-turning, fast-moving pacy crime story - forget about doing anything else till the last page is turned and Bosch reaches a crossroads in his life. - Lucy Watson
- Author Bio -
A former police reporter for the LOS ANGELES TIMES, Michael Connelly is the author of seven acclaimed Harry Bosch novels: THE BLACK ECHO, THE BLACK ICE, THE CONCRETE BLONDE, THE LAST COYOTE, TRUNK MUSIC, ANGELS FLIGHT and A DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT, as well as THE POET, BLOOD WORK and VOID MOON. He lives in Florida and Los Angeles.
- Full Details -
Status: | Active |
ISBN-13: | 9781760290986 |
Published: | 1 Aug 2015 |
Published In: | Australia |
Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
Format: | Paperback |
Height: | 198mm |
Width: | 129mm |
Pages: | 512 |
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