Echo Park (Harry Bosch)

A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought for thirteen years. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. Bosch s whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realize that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.. But Bosch couldn t

Smooth prose and plausible characters—even the secondary figures—elevate this several notches above the standard cop vs. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. In Bosch's case, the elusive quarry is the man who abducted a 22-year-old equestrian, Marie Gesto, in 1993. The weary and cynical detective soon suspects that Waits is trying to barter information for a reduced sentence of life imprisonment. serial-killer thriller. All rights reserved. When a chance police stop of a suspicious vehic

An exciting and riveting mystery Richard C. Reynolds Harry Bosch is working in the Open-Unsolved Unit of the LAPD and occasionally reviews the thirteen year old case of Marie Gesto, one that he just can’t let go. The case gets another close look when a guy named Raynard Waits agrees to take the rap for Marie’s murder along with a host of other crimes. Waits agrees to lead a group of police officers and forensic experts to Marie’s burial site in a high wooded area on the outskirts of Los Angeles. There . Bosch wins again! Jackie Connelly always writes a well developed plot. This one certainly had lots of twists and turns that kept Bosch and the reader guessing. The characters are always interesting. What I like about Bosch is his dedication to getting his guy and being willing to work outside the lines to do so. Now that often causes him a lot of trouble with politicians and command, and he often loses contact with those closest to him because of the tactics he uses. Maybe that just makes him. A 13 year old murder, a deception inside a deception & corrupt money! jaxbill Harry & Kiz get a strange call which leads to an even stranger meeting and proposal and prophet on a really strange convoluted which smells fishy. Harry just cannot wrap his mind around this offer, feeling in his mind that the wrong guy is taking a fall for a murder he didn't commit. It all falls together, but not really.