The Drop A Harry Bosch Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Connelly Len Cariou Orion Publishing Group Limited Books
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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.
First 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.
The Drop A Harry Bosch Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Connelly Len Cariou Orion Publishing Group Limited Books
I’m calling this one a “bonus book” because you get two important LAPD cases for the price of one.Detective Harry Bosch is working in the Open-Unsolved Unit with partner Adam Chu. They are given a strange case from a 1989 murder where the recovered DNA points to a killer who was just eight years old at the time. The second case is current and involves a male body that didn’t survive a fall from a downtown hotel’s seventh floor. The victim turns out to be the son of Councilman Irvin Irving, a former LAPD official who detests Bosch but thinks he’ll handle the case in a totally professional manner. This assignment comes from the highest offices of LAPD, something Bosch refers to as “high jingo,” political influence demanding police action.
A wink now to Michael Connelly for the book’s double-meaning title. Bosch is facing mandatory retirement within four years under the LAPD’s DROP program and one cause of young Irving’s death is postulated as the killer “dropping” him from the hotel’s veranda.
Bosch and Chu have their hands full pursuing leads in both investigations. Bosch is not helped much by Chu’s many mistakes and personal activities, events that cause Harry to seriously consider having him transferred to another department. Bosch is also trying hard to be a good father to teenage daughter Maddie since her mother’s death in Hong Kong several years before. She’s a smart girl and trustworthy, someone Harry describes to a friend as being “thirteen going on thirty.”
Bosch and Chu work the cases relentlessly, conducting interviews, checking out forensic data, digging up historic data from prior years, and getting help from one of Harry’s earlier partners, Kiz Rider, who is working in the police chief’s office. The book is a fine police procedural with plenty of interesting characters on the periphery of these terrible crimes. The tension ratchets up nicely to give the reader a satisfying and exciting end.
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The Drop A Harry Bosch Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Connelly Len Cariou Orion Publishing Group Limited Books Reviews
After reading a number of unevenly written "Deal of the Day" books, it was refreshing to read Michael Connelly's latest book in the Harry Bosch series. Harry Bosch is back, continuing to work on cold cases that have been reopened due to advances in technology, mainly DNA and ballistics techniques applied to old evidence. Harry and his partner, David Chu, are assigned an odd case, where blood found on a rape and murder victim matches that of a convicted sex offender, now living in a halfway house. The only problem is that the sex offender would have been only 8 years old at the time of the murder. Before they can delve into it, they are abruptly called out to work on another case, an apparent suicide. The victim is the son of Bosch's nemesis, the former police chief, Irvin Irving. Irving is now a city councilman, and a thorn in the side of the LAPD. Surprisingly, Irving has explicitly requested that Bosch work on the case, with respect for the latter's investigative skills trumping any personal issues between them.
The story unfolds, and Bosch seemingly gets to the bottom of the story behind George Irving's death, while unearthing dirt on his father as well. Attention then turns to the cold case, which is also resolved. However, nothing is as clear cut as it seems, and there are moral ambiguities that surface, despite the cold facts of the cases. Police department politics are never far from the surface of the story. In addition, Bosch meets a psychologist while working on the cold case, and the two of them make a connection which hints at a developing relationship in future books.
One caveat to readers If you follow the progress bar of the book at the bottom of the screen, be aware that the book is over at 86%, to be followed by the first few chapters of Connelly's next book. This can be disconcerting if you are expecting the book to be over at 99%, and because of it, the book seems to end abruptly. This is the only downside I have found with - you can't really tell when a book will end, and on some deep level, it creates an expectation in the reader. I've had a for several years and rarely read anything besides ebooks, so I think I need to pay more attention to the table of contents, which would have revealed the preview and the true point where the book ends.
In all, the book was a satisfying read and I look forward to Connelly's upcoming book.
This is later, but vintage Harry Bosch. Connelly carries of juggling two separate story lines deftly, as he has done before, without losing control of narrative, pacing, or characterization. Along the way his characters, many of whom are "survivors" of earlier Bosch stories, evolve and edge their way into new personae that are logical expressions of their experiences and situations.
Bosch, however, seems to change little through this story. His strengths remain his strengths and his weaknesses remain his blind spots. Perhaps he has been around long enough as a character that he has little room to change. Or maybe Connelly doesn't intend for him to. Instead we end up with inconsistencies. A love interest who is appalled by Bosches unrequited antipathy toward a particularly loathesome criminal changes her mind despite no apparent change in circumstances or motivation. Also, the ending, while exciting and satisfying is rather contrived and improbable. All in all, however, this is a great interesting, fast paced, and all around good read.
Another excellent Harry Bosch story. In this one Harry has been granted a 4 year extension to his retirement contract. He is given two cases, one a cold case file since he is assigned to the Cold Case Division and is also assigned to the suicide ( or is it?) of the son of his former ex-deputy police chief now a city councilman Irvin Irving. Bad blood runs between these to men. So in the book you are always wondering why the councilman has requested Harry be on this case. And the other case is the discovery of DNA in a blood smear that shows the sex offender was an 8 year old child at the time. Harry is going back and forth between the two cases which makes you not want to put the book down to get to the end of what actually happened in each of these cases. Great book you won't be disappointed.
I’m calling this one a “bonus book” because you get two important LAPD cases for the price of one.
Detective Harry Bosch is working in the Open-Unsolved Unit with partner Adam Chu. They are given a strange case from a 1989 murder where the recovered DNA points to a killer who was just eight years old at the time. The second case is current and involves a male body that didn’t survive a fall from a downtown hotel’s seventh floor. The victim turns out to be the son of Councilman Irvin Irving, a former LAPD official who detests Bosch but thinks he’ll handle the case in a totally professional manner. This assignment comes from the highest offices of LAPD, something Bosch refers to as “high jingo,” political influence demanding police action.
A wink now to Michael Connelly for the book’s double-meaning title. Bosch is facing mandatory retirement within four years under the LAPD’s DROP program and one cause of young Irving’s death is postulated as the killer “dropping” him from the hotel’s veranda.
Bosch and Chu have their hands full pursuing leads in both investigations. Bosch is not helped much by Chu’s many mistakes and personal activities, events that cause Harry to seriously consider having him transferred to another department. Bosch is also trying hard to be a good father to teenage daughter Maddie since her mother’s death in Hong Kong several years before. She’s a smart girl and trustworthy, someone Harry describes to a friend as being “thirteen going on thirty.”
Bosch and Chu work the cases relentlessly, conducting interviews, checking out forensic data, digging up historic data from prior years, and getting help from one of Harry’s earlier partners, Kiz Rider, who is working in the police chief’s office. The book is a fine police procedural with plenty of interesting characters on the periphery of these terrible crimes. The tension ratchets up nicely to give the reader a satisfying and exciting end.
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