The Drop (A Harry Bosch Novel)

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.. 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. 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 19

. Michael Connelly is a former journalist and the author of the #1 bestsellers The Reversal, The Scarecrow, The Brass Verdict and The Lincoln Lawyer, the bestselling series of Harry Bosch novels, and the bestselling novels Chasing the Dime, Void Moon, Blood Work, and The Poet. Crime Beat, a collection

A former police chief and no fan of Harry's, the councilman insists that Harry investigate his son's death. Harry's pursuit of that case is interrupted by the apparent suicide of a councilman's son. The first is a botched DNA test from a 1989 rape and murder, which has been pinned on a convicted rapist who was only eight years old at the time of the crime. Best Books of the Month, December 2011: With his retirement looming, LAPD's Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch takes on two seemingly unrelated cases. --Neal Thompson. In pursuit of the truth, and an elusive killer, Bosch and his partner uncover se

Mickey Haller is Back! Connelly is best known for his Harry Bosch seriesand Harry plays a role here, but the book is about Mickey Haller. Haller is an attorney who operates his criminal defense practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln. He rushes from courthouse to courthouse, covering calls, making deals, and trying cases when he has toor he used to. As the book opens, Mickey has been out of the game for a year.recovering from a gunshot wound and an addiction to pain pills. Just as he is about to dip his toe in the water, an old adversary is killed, and Mickey inherits his entire practice, including the murder case of the year set for trial the following. Harry Bosch: at it once again 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. An (Administrative) Procedural Richard B. Schwartz First off: the title. The `Drop' is the Deferred Retirement Option Plan. Harry has been given three years before he will be forced to retire from the LAPD and he wants to make the most of the time available. He is working two cases--a murder (or is it a suicide?) at the Chateau Marmont, the victim a son of a councilman who has asked for Harry to work the case. He and Harry have a history and it's not clear why a person with a grudge would ask his antagonist to investigate the death of his son. Presumably because Harry is tenacious and will follow the case to a conclusion, wherever it leads but where is this leading and is the councilma