Drop Harry Bosch Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly started writing the Harry Bosch novels back in 1992, when he premiered with The Black Echo. Now 12 novels later, he is back with Echo Park. Harry is working in the Open – Unsolved Crimes Unit with his old collaborator Kiz Rider. Thirteen years ago he had investigated the case of Marie Gesto, who went missing and has never been found. It was one of his cases that has haunted him and he has never stopped working.

Below is my review of Michael Connelly’s 12th Harry Bosch novel:

Cast of Characters:

Heironymous (Harry) Bosch – named after the painter – retired LA Detective, now reassigned to the Open Unsolved Unit

Kiz Rider – his ex-partner, who had moved upstairs to a cushy office job, now working in OU too with Harry.

Abel Pratt – Head of Open Solved, just waiting for retirement in 4 weeks time

Rick O’Shea – particular prosecutor handling the Waits case and running for DA

Freddy Olivas – homicide detective working the Waits Case

Raynard Waits – serial killer known as the Echo Park Bagman

Rachel Walling.- FBI profiler, who Harry had a brief kinship with various years ago

Plot:

When a serial killer is caught red handed by the Los Angeles Police, he wants to confess to assorted unsolved murders, one of which is Marie Gesto. Bosch is brought into the fold and will have to now come face to face with the monster who killed Marie.

Now I have been a fan of Michael Connelly since his firstborn novel, Black Echo, and the reputation of Harry Bosch has come to be a bestloved character. His life is perplexed due to his “unique police ethics” and the way he throws himself into each case. For him it is personal.

In Echo Park, he has to evaluate if the killer Raynard Waits, is telling the truth or just attempting to plea bargain down his sentence to keep out of the way of the death penalty. The upcoming election for district attorney is not helping… in fact it seems that it might be the reason behind the confession.

Bosch has to battle his own demons, plus thence coming from political influence in and out of the state. The dialog is believable (as in all Harry Bosch novels) and the way things unravel is always a surprise.

Even if you have never read a Harry Bosch novel before, you may without apparent effort pick this one up and have a fantastic cop vs. serial killer vs political intrigue crime novel to enjoy. Very well written and will keep you guessing and entertained.

Highly commended to any person who enjoys a good crime novel.

Drop Harry Bosch Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he will have to retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibleness could compromise all of the lab’s DNA cases presently in court.

Then Bosch and his collaborator are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving’s son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch’s longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.

Relentlessly carrying out or participate in both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as a heap of as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.

ReviewPRAISE FOR THE REVERSAL:

“Each of his books is so much more than the sum of it is parts….Connelly writes true-to-life fiction regarding unfeigned crime. What makes his crme stories ring true is that they’re never in truth over.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times )

“Thank God for Michael Connelly….Connelly retains his journalistic gifts; his eye for detail is spot on….Taken together, his 22 novels form an indispensible, compelling chronicle of L.A.” (Jonathan Shapiro, Los Angeles Times )

“Mr. Connelly, a former journalist, is a master of mixing realistic details of police work and courtroom procedure with the private sensations and personal lives of his protagonists, and of building suspense even as he evokes the somber poetry inherent in battling the dark side.” (Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal )

“Another of Connelly’s brilliant Los Angeles crime novels.” (Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain Dealer )

“Connelly’s prose is so smooth that it looks easy….The product of a master completely in command of his craft.” (Robin Vidimos, Denver Post )

“Connelly knows his way around a police investigation, and he knows his way around a courtroom. This noesis makes his stories believable while his writing accomplishments make them come alive….An stimulating writer and one we love to read.” (Jackie K. Cooper, Huffington Post )

About the AuthorMichael Connelly is the author of the recent #1 New York Times bestsellers The Fifth Witness, The Reversal, The Scarecrow, The Brass Verdict, and The Lincoln Lawyer, as well as the bestselling Harry Bosch series of novels. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won a lot of awards for his journalism and his novels. He spends his time in California and Florida.

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