The Drop
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Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must 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 possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner 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 pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.
Series
Series
25 primary books29 released books#15 in Harry Bosch
Harry Bosch is a 29-book series with 25 primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Michael Connelly.
Series
39 primary books45 released books#23 in Harry Bosch Universe
Harry Bosch Universe is a 45-book series with 39 primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Michael Connelly.
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How does he do it? How does someone as accomplished as Connelly continually top himself? Equaling himself would be a tough act (and not one he always pulls off), but topping himself? Inhuman.
This was gripping (duh). This was harrowing (duh). The suspense was there, the intrigue was thick (duh). What was shown about the human condition should cause anyone to reflect (duh). All of that is par for the course for Connelly and Harry Bosch.
But this one...the depravity, Harry's reaction to it–not just the bad guys, but the politics surrounding the cases...hit harder than normal. You can really feel for Bosch in this one, you can curse his mistakes (and even the right things he did that don't feel so right), but the closing chapters carry a kind of emotional weight that Bosch novels normally don't.
This is Connelly at his best. Looking forward to the next time he tops himself.
Another Harry Bosch story. I always enjoy these. Not too many of these books left as Harry approaches retirement.
