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"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.
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"Only
the money was real. Four years ago, LAPD detective Harry Bosch was
on a movie set asking questions about the murder of a young
production assistant when an armored car arrived with two million
dollars cash for use in a heist scene. In a life-imitates-art
firestorm, a gang of masked men converged on the delivery and
robbed the armored car with guns blazing. Bosch got off a shot that
struck one of the robbers as their van sped away, but the money was
never recovered. And the young woman's murder was in the stack of
unsolved-case files Bosch carried home the night he left the LAPD."
| The Narrows (First published 2004) | |
 "FBI agent Rachel Walling finally
gets the call she's dreaded for years: the one that tells her the
Poet has returned. Years ago she worked on the famous case,
tracking down the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his
hideous crimes. Rachel has never forgotten Robert Backus, the
killer who called himself
the Poet - and apparently he has not
forgotten her either." Harry Bosch gets a call, too. The former LAPD detective hears from the wife of an old friend who has
recently died. The death appeared natural, but this man's ties to
the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep - and lead him into a
terrifying, bewildering situation. (Source: Publisher) |
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The Harry Bosch Novels
Volume 1:
Black Echo / Black Ice / Concrete Blonde (First published 2000) |
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 "The Black Echo:
For Harry Bosch - hero, loner, nighthawk - the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn't just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat," fighting the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won't do it again." "The Black Ice: The corpse in the hotel room seems to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumors abound that the cop had crossed over - selling a new drug called Black ice. Now Harry's making some dangerous connections, leading from the cop to a string of bloody murders, and from Hollywood Boulevard's drug bazaar to Mexico's dusty back alleys. In this lethal game, Harry is likely to be the next victim." The Concrete Blonde: When Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker - L.A.'s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church's widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man - a charge that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature. For the second time, Harry must hunt the murderer down, before he strikes again. (Source: Publisher) |
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The Harry Bosch Novels
Volume 2: The Last Coyote / Trunk Music / Angels Flight (First published 2003) |
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 The Last Coyote:LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute—his mother. Trunk Music: Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties. Up against both the LAPD's organized crime unit and the Mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. Angels Flight: The murder of a prominent attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality lands Harry's friends and associates on the list of suspects—and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them. (Source: Publisher) |
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