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A Harry Bosch Novel by Michael Connelly

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Jan 2, 2012

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Harry Bosch is assigned to a cold case of a 1989 rape and murder that DNA evidence shows an eight year old child was involved. Harry must find if the evidence was compromised or what happened.

As he begins this case, he's ordered to investigate the untimely death of the son of his former adversary, Councilman Irvin Irving.

Harry is getting closer to retirement and is dealing with the city to grant him five years more on the job. He also has an excellent relationship with his fifteen-year-old daughter, Maddie, who indicates she wants to follow Harry into the police department.

Harry feels the need to accomplish a great deal with the short time he has left on the job and a bothersome part in the DNA evidence points to a criminal who may have been active for the last 20 years.

There is some vivid description of the violent means that the accused uses here, for sexual activities so the novel isn't for the reader who is adverse to that.

However, the novel is enjoyable and continues Michael Connelly's legacy as one of our best crime novelists.

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review by KevinRTipple. April 14, 2012

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Bosch is back in "THE DROP" by Micheal Connelly

“Everybody counts or nobody counts” has always been Detective Harry Bosch’s personal mantra. In THE DROP, the latest book in a series that began long ago with the excellent novel The Black Echo, Harry Bosch’s belief system and his trust in others are tested in new ways. Ways that will have him second guessing himself again and again before these two cases are over. Bosch has 39 months to go before mandated retirement from the LAPD. He isn’t happy about forced … more

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review by MichaelN. September 28, 2011

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Please Do Not Force Harry To Retire!

This is another excellent book about Harry Bosch, my favorite LAPD homicide investigator. The title of the book may throw the reader off though. The DROP in this book refers to the Deferred Retirement Option Program of the LAPD. Harry is still working in the Unsolved Cases unit and is at the mandatory retirement age and had put in for a DROP. Through it is not the focal point of the story, it does tie in to Harry's mindset throughout the book. Harry and his … more

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review by IsraelDrazin. December 26, 2011

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I really liked this well-written suspenseful crime novel

This novel is interesting from page one to its surprise ending on page 388, with no let up. Bosch is portrayed as a man of integrity, but he sees life in black and whites, and this personality trait affects, in interesting and positive ways, virtually all the events in this story. Bosch works two crime cases and is able to see facts missed by others, even experienced police officers. One case concerns an apparent suicide, but was it murder? The son of Bosch's nemesis Irving Irvin fell off of … more

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review by TheReadingReviewer. November 01, 2011

Is nothing uncomplicated when politics are involved?

Detective Harry Bosch has the opportunity to continue his work in the Open/Unsolved Unit with his extension to stay on approved. Harry has been working the cold cases long enough to get have a rhythm down so that he gets the work done and still be home for dinner with his daughter. Doing his best to be a good detective and great father is a tightrope but Harry is a man always up for a challenge, even with a teenage daughter. On this particular cold case assignment day, he draws … more

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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.

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