Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP -
Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his
retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's
anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long and at first glance the two cases he's given appear unrelated but Harry thinks otherwise...
A cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapist who was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman's son is found dead - fallen or pushed from a hotel window - and he insists on Bosch taking the case despite the two men's history of enmity. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.
Reviews
The brilliant Michael Connelly incorporates his favourite themes in this double helix of a plot. A serial killer and a dark political conspiracy are unearthed by ageing Harry Bosch THE MIRROR Michael Connelly is the undisputed master of police procedural thrillers and this latest episode in the colourful life of Harry Bosch is quite literally unputdownable IRISH INDEPENDENT Connelly gives yet another virtuoso performance in how to write crime novels (this is his 24th and one of his most skilful yet). -- Carla McKay DAILY MAIL The Drop is a return to form for Michael Connelly MAIL ON SUNDAY 20120101 Connelly is superb at building suspense through the accreditation of detail WALL STREET JOURNAL (Europe) 20111129
About the Author
Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the
books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida.
After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona
Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ending up as a crime reporter for
the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and
bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had
written.
After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began
writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. The
novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred
in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best
First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. The rest is crime writing history.
He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and daughter.
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